I was supposed to be in New York last week on a Sondheim binge (Company and Assassins and maybe some other stuff) so this #Sondheim90Concert is pretty much the first quarantine livestream I've gotten genuinely pumped for.

I'll avoid live-tweeting (if it ever actually starts) but I'll just state in advance that all I really need out of this evening is for Raul Esparza to do Being Alive, and Mandy and Bernadette to make me feel like I'm 10YO watching Sunday for the first time again. Just that.

Well this is not going super smoothly so far. #Sondheim90Concert

If I ever propose live-streaming a concert I'm in charge of, everybody please remind me of this time that ALL OF BROADWAY couldn't get Raul Esparza on a working uplink within 40 minutes of the scheduled start time.

Ah! Well, nevertheless

FINALLY. And while we're waiting through multiple overtures, can I just say how absolutely silly it is when these remote-musician-grid-video-stack things have a conductor waving along in one of the squares?

This orchestra sounds freaking great, though. #Sondheim90Concert

lol at a hard close-up of the snare drum as we hear a timpani roll #Sondheim90Concert

NPH doing the witch's rap is weirdly perfect. It's like Dr Horrible got new material.

Okay apparently I am live-tweeting this now. I'll go ahead and keep it in this thread, so mute if you need to.