Broadway Bound: This Moment in Time

[00:00] Madison area jugglers present the 47th annual Mad Fest Juggling Extravaganza hosted by comedy

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[01:09] This annual event features an array of circus arts and more.

[01:12] This year's lineup includes high energy comedy from Alex Serby and Kenny Aaron, juggling

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[01:56] This is Broadway Bound and I'm Garrett Stack.

[01:58] We are now in our number two and we are taking a look at this moment in time.

[02:04] This is a snapshot of the beginning of 2022 in the Broadway Theatre season.

[02:11] Broadway has suffered so much for so long and closed for a year and a half and opened

[02:19] up in the fall of 2021 after a year and a half being shut down and started to come back and

[02:27] audiences started to come back as the COVID virus was diminishing after the Delta variant

[02:34] was getting under control only to be smacked again with the Omicron variant of the same

[02:41] virus.

[02:42] However, because people are vaccinated and they have to prove that they're vaccinated

[02:47] and they have to prove that their children are vaccinated and that's the only way you

[02:52] get into a Broadway theatre, theatres remain open although they are not going at full capacity.

[02:59] They used to report and you could read on Playbill the weekly grosses of each of

[03:05] the individual shows.

[03:06] They stopped doing that when Broadway came back in the fall of 2021.

[03:13] They don't give individual show grosses but rather the entire Broadway industry, all productions

[03:22] that are running.

[03:24] Two weeks before Christmas or the week ending December 19th, 2021, that's a very busy

[03:30] time in New York.

[03:32] The Broadway capacities were at 85%.

[03:37] So they were filling 85% of the seats and then the week before Christmas, another one

[03:44] and the week after Christmas, the figures for that are not available.

[03:49] It's kind of interesting this moment in time in Broadway history.

[03:54] Well speaking of this moment in time, Girl from the North Country is a wonderful musical

[04:02] that is filled with Bob Dylan's music.

[04:04] It's not a jukebox musical.

[04:06] It's not a concert.

[04:07] It's rather a, it's set in a boarding house in North Minnesota in the 1930s during the

[04:14] Depression and this group of people that come together and they use Bob Dylan music.

[04:20] So that's what that is about.

[04:23] When Girl from the North Country opened up, it opened up on March 5th, 2020 to great reviews

[04:31] and on March 12th, 2020, one week later, exactly one week later, poof, Broadway closed down.

[04:41] So all the good buzz about Girl from the North Country, how disappointing for everybody involved

[04:49] in these shows.

[04:52] It came back and it came back and it's, you know, people love going to see Girl from the

[04:58] North Country.

[04:59] We're going to hear some music from Girl from the North Country right now.

[05:04] What are we going to hear?

[05:05] One of my favorites.

[05:06] I play it all the time on my guitar.

[08:03] If you're traveling to the North Country Fair, where the winds blow heavy on the borderline,

[08:16] remember me to one who lives there.

[08:24] He once was a true lover, my river's free, that she's weary, and if she in the darkness

[09:18] of the brightness of my days.

[09:30] So if you're traveling to the North Country Fair, where the winds blow heavy on the borderline,

[09:45] remember me to one who lives there.

[09:52] Once was a true...

[10:10] From Girl from the North Country, this moment in time on Broadway.

[10:16] God bless and keep you always, may your wishes always, may you always do other for you.

[11:09] To the stars.

[11:10] Bob Dylan's song, Forever Young, and that is from Girl from the North Country, and

[14:05] the recording that is available for that is the original London cast that opened in 2018.

[14:13] In 2020, it opened in New York just one week before the big shutdown, because of the COVID

[14:20] virus.

[14:21] Girl from the North Country, Forever Young, Girl from the North Country, the title cut

[14:26] from the show, and we started that off from Girl from the North Country with You Ain't

[14:31] Goin' Nowhere and Joker Man.

[14:33] It was a mixed medley there.

[14:35] I'm Garrett Stack, and you are listening to Broadway Bound as we're looking at this

[14:40] moment in time in Broadway history, as Broadway struggles and hangs on during the international

[14:47] pandemic.

[14:48] I guess that's what pandemic means, during the pandemic of the COVID virus.

[14:56] But it's hanging on, hanging in there.

[14:59] One of the shows that opened, it transferred from London to come here, was the revival

[15:06] of company, Stephen Sondheim's company, Stephen Sondheim, who passed away at the end of 2021

[15:15] as the show was opening on Broadway.

[15:18] The show opened in December of 2021, getting great reviews, and it transferred from London.

[15:25] Patti LuPone takes on the iconic role of Joanne in it that was made famous by Elaine

[15:31] Stritch in 1970, when it first opened up.

[15:35] So Patti LuPone is in it and then a Broadway cast.

[15:40] But Patti LuPone was in London, and she's now in New York, from the revival of company

[15:46] on Broadway at this moment in time.

[18:20] Patti LuPone coming now, the ladies who lunch.

[21:02] From companies to ladies who lunch.

[21:07] Everybody laugh.

[21:13] In their cams and planning a brunch, on their own behalf, off to the gym, then to a fitting,

[21:30] claiming they're fat and looking great, cause they've been sitting, choosing a...

[21:45] Does anyone still wear a hat?

[21:47] Like to that, us who stay smart, aren't they a guess?

[22:03] Brushing to their classes in optical art, wishing it would pass.

[22:15] Sosting hours and dollars, drink to that, and one for more, aren't they too much?

[22:44] Keeping house but clutching a copy of time, just to keep in touch.

[22:56] Things are neat, themselves at the zoo, just what's got, plus a little jest,

[23:41] chance to disapprove, drink to that.

[24:07] Everybody tries, look into their eyes, and you'll see what they know.

[24:15] Everybody does, or serve on the table.

[25:01] The ladies who lunch, classic, classic, and let's hear it from Mahler while we're at it, right?

[25:08] This is Broadway Bound, I'm Garrett Stack.

[25:10] As I was getting this program together, I thought, well, you know, how did, what happened

[25:19] in other pandemics with Broadway and theaters and so forth?

[25:24] So I did a little research, and it's very interesting that first let's talk about the Spanish flu.

[25:31] In 1918, the Spanish flu was a pandemic that also took the world.

[25:37] Millions of people were killed because of the flu.

[25:44] And in just 10 months, 670,000 Americans died of the Spanish flu.

[25:52] And worldwide, between 50 and 100 million people.

[25:57] Now, here's something interesting.

[25:58] We call it the Spanish flu.

[26:00] However, that is its contemporary name.

[26:05] Historians and epidemiologists now largely agree that it started right here in the United States,

[26:12] in Kansas, the Kansas flu.

[26:14] How did it become the Spanish flu?

[26:16] Well, at the time, this is 1918, the Spanish flu became that way because during World War I,

[26:24] Spain was a neutral country, and there was no press censorship.

[26:28] So when their king fell ill in 1918, it was widely reported.

[26:34] So across the world, many of them, it was the first time they ever heard of it in the news,

[26:39] and they mistakenly thought it originated in Spain, thus the Spanish flu.

[26:46] But it wasn't.

[26:47] Let's call it the Kansas flu, right here with Dorothy and Toto and everybody else, N.E.M.

[26:54] from Kansas.

[26:55] Okay, so what about theaters in 1918?

[26:58] You know, Broadway started in the early part of the 20th century, going full blast.

[27:04] And that would be, you know, 1902, three, four, and so forth.

[27:08] So by 1918, what was going on?

[27:13] Theaters were not closed.

[27:15] People think, of course they were.

[27:16] You know, they had to.

[27:17] With the pandemic, the Kansas flu going on, no, they didn't close.

[27:23] And that was very interesting.

[27:24] I thought, well, of course they would have.

[27:27] But instead of closing theaters, the head health officer of New York City, his name was Copeland,

[27:37] and he said philosophically was disinclined to intrude very much an ordinary life because

[27:45] of that.

[27:46] He didn't want to freak people out.

[27:48] And these are quotes.

[27:49] This is what he has written later on.

[27:51] My aim was to prevent panic, hysteria, mental disturbance, that's what he said later.

[27:57] And thus to protect the public from the condition of mind that in itself predisposes

[28:03] itself to physical ills.

[28:06] So instead of closing theaters, the head guy of health said, no, we're going to stagger

[28:13] curtain times, assigning each theater to a group.

[28:17] So for example, the Hippodrome, that was a big theater at the time, for example, started

[28:22] at eight o'clock, the Winter Garden at 815, the Lyric Theater 830, the Booth at 845,

[28:29] and the Bellasco at nine o'clock.

[28:32] Those theaters are still there, except the Hippodrome, pretty interesting.

[28:36] But so they were staggered, so to keep people more separated on the street.

[28:41] And the idea was to cut down, of course, on overcrowding.

[28:44] The schedule was part of a citywide plan that Copeland announced in early October, and regimenting

[28:50] the opening and closing times of various industries so that the rush hours on the subways would

[28:56] be less mobbed.

[29:00] And they stopped standing room only tickets.

[29:02] They stopped smoking.

[29:04] And get this, they said, if you have coffers or sneezers, this is what Copeland said in

[29:10] New York City, if you have coffers and sneezers in your audience, your ushers are to go and

[29:18] tell them they must leave.

[29:20] What a job.

[29:21] You know, the usher, I'm sorry, you're going to have people were much more cooperative

[29:25] than I think.

[29:27] So they they would leave the theater because they were coughing and sneezing.

[29:33] And he said, we will back them up.

[29:34] We'll back up those ushers.

[29:36] He promised ominously.

[29:38] And those ushers in attendance were to boot sneezers and coffers and spitters right out

[29:44] of the theater.

[29:47] That's how it was.

[29:48] Theaters were not closed during the Spanish quote unquote Spanish flu, which we think

[29:54] pretty sure originated in Kansas.

[29:57] All right, let's get back to music.

[29:59] Let's get back to this moment in time, 100 years later.

[30:03] And as we get back to this moment in time, 100 years later, what is still on Broadway?

[30:09] What is what is going?

[30:11] What are people buying tickets for?

[30:13] And what can you get a ticket for?

[30:15] And one of them is the show that's so dear to me.

[30:18] I just one of the best shows I've ever seen in my life representing the best of

[30:23] humanity. And I'm talking about come from away.

[30:26] Come from away.

[30:27] You can get tickets for that on Broadway.

[30:30] And if you haven't seen it at some time, please do.

[30:35] So let's go.

[30:36] Come from away on Broadway at this moment in time.

[30:47] I'm the northeast tip of North America on an island called Newfoundland.

[30:52] There's an airport.

[30:53] It used to be one of the biggest airports in the world.

[30:55] And next to it is a town called Canada.

[30:58] Welcome to the rack.

[30:59] If you come from away.

[31:01] You probably understand about half of what we see.

[31:04] They say no man's an island, but an island makes a man.

[31:07] Especially when one comes from one like you and land.

[31:10] Welcome to the rack.

[31:12] Sorry, Bula.

[31:21] How's the kids?

[31:21] Not exactly thrilled to be inside on such a gorgeous day.

[31:25] So I told them we'd only have a half day this morning and they were quite pleased

[31:30] until I told them we'd have the wildest weather that you've ever heard of.

[31:37] Where everyone is nicer, but it's never nice above.

[31:43] Chips and shipwrecks.

[31:44] They say welcome to the rack.

[31:48] The kids cross the airport boulevard to get to school.

[32:03] And that time of day, people are in a little bit of a rush to get to work and stuff.

[32:08] So normally I sit there and run my radar.

[32:12] And if they're speeding, I'll stop them and write out a warning ticket.

[32:16] I'll write STFD.

[32:18] Slow the fuck down.

[32:19] Be killed, fuck, fuck, be drowned.

[32:33] Left until it'll go.

[32:38] I drop my kids off at school and head to the SPCA where I'm greeted by my other kids.

[32:48] All barking and meowing for breakfast at a belly rub.

[32:52] Not that I'm complaining, I love them.

[32:54] But by the time feeding is done, I get to get back to pick up my human kids.

[32:58] So I take just one second for myself and I'm sitting in my car.

[33:01] I'm in the library.

[33:02] I'm in the staff room.

[33:04] And I turn on the radio.

[33:09] At the start, on the edge of the world,

[33:15] where the river meets the sea.

[33:23] Plant it.

[33:33] I'm running my radar when Bonnie comes by.

[33:35] She pulls up and she is waving at me like mad.

[33:38] So I roll down my window and she says,

[33:40] Oz, turn on the radio.

[33:41] Slow it down.

[33:41] Jesus, hey, Oz, turn on your radio.

[33:44] Where our story starts.

[33:46] Station.

[33:47] Where I'm coffee for the picket line.

[33:50] Where we know my heart.

[33:51] Find it to my smoke break.

[33:53] Every single smoke break.

[33:54] I'm off to work at the airport.

[33:55] Welcome to the fog.

[33:57] The ocean and the sky.

[34:01] The ones who've left, you're never truly gone.

[34:04] Let's come ashore.

[34:21] Welcome to Gander Academy.

[34:23] I'm going to show you now to your rooms.

[34:25] And then if you want to come back,

[34:26] we've got two TVs set up in the cafeteria with the news on.

[34:29] So you can see what's actually happened for yourself.

[34:34] I didn't even think.

[34:36] They haven't seen any of it yet.

[34:39] Lead us out of the dark.

[34:41] We're all staring at those images.

[34:44] And we just stand helpless watching them.

[34:46] Lead us somewhere to safety.

[34:50] We barely know where we are.

[34:52] We know it's not there.

[34:54] Lead us far from disaster.

[34:56] Charles Burlingham was the captain of Flight 77

[35:00] that crashed into the Pentagon.

[35:02] I just saw him at a pub in London.

[35:04] You can't imagine.

[35:06] A pilot will fight to the ends of the earth

[35:08] to save his airplane.

[35:10] He just will.

[35:12] Lead us out of the dark.

[35:18] We watch those images for hours until someone finally

[35:29] turns it off.

[35:30] Lead us far from the crazy cause I was one of those kids.

[35:47] Always knew what I was.

[35:49] They took me down to the airport to see all the planes

[35:55] departing, watching them fly.

[35:57] Something inside of me was starting.

[36:00] I was eight when I told them.

[36:03] But I was too young and too short.

[36:08] And there were no female captains in my dad.

[36:11] Be patient, he said, just see what happens.

[36:14] But I took my first lesson, came down from the sky,

[36:17] and something has stopped.

[39:49] Live from Newfoundland for BBC.

[40:11] CBC.

[40:12] CTV.

[40:13] Al Jazeera.

[40:13] For Roger's TV, I'm Janice Mosher.

[40:15] On September 11th, 2011, the town is again filled

[40:19] with come-from-aways.

[40:20] On the 10th anniversary from all around the world,

[40:23] we welcome back the plane people.

[40:25] One.

[40:26] One, two, three, four.

[40:28] Only the friends who have come from away,

[40:31] the locals who have always said they'd stay.

[40:33] If you're coming from Toledo or you're coming from Taipei,

[40:36] because we come from everywhere, we all come from away.

[40:40] Welcome to the rocks, the island we're right at.

[40:58] It's meant to be, but nothing goes as planned.

[41:00] And the trunk of stellas in the room are playing.

[41:20] I came back with the scholarship money we raised,

[41:23] now worth over a million dollars.

[41:25] I bring out the Irish whiskey,

[41:26] and we have ourselves a toast.

[41:28] Nick and I just couldn't make the long-distance relationship

[41:31] work.

[41:32] So I moved to Texas, and then I proposed.

[41:34] And we honeymooned in Newfoundland.

[41:37] My new secretary's name is Robin.

[41:40] What's up?

[41:41] Every year, on September 11, I close my office

[41:43] and give each employee $100 to go and do

[41:46] random good deeds for strangers.

[41:49] It's my way of remembering what happened.

[41:51] Biola and I still keep in touch.

[41:53] She even came to visit me in New York.

[41:56] And I'll still phone her if I hear a really stupid joke.

[41:59] Biola, why are Newfoundlanders terrible at knock-knock jokes?

[42:02] I don't know, Hannah.

[42:04] We'll try it.

[42:04] I'll be in Newfoundland today.

[42:12] It's about four meters long and 1,200 kilograms.

[42:15] Newfoundland is the only place outside the United States

[42:18] where we share the steel from the World Trade Center.

[42:21] On the northeast tip of North America,

[42:23] on an island called Newfoundland, there's an airport.

[42:27] And next to it is a town called Gander.

[42:31] Tonight, we honored what was last.

[42:33] But we also commemorated what we found.

[43:57] Cannot listen to that without tearing up.

[44:01] Every time, if you have to see one show on Broadway,

[44:07] get your vaccines if you don't have them,

[44:09] and go see Come From Away.

[44:13] Amazing.

[44:15] So what else?

[44:15] This moment in time on Broadway.

[44:20] That's what we're doing here on Broadway Bound.

[44:22] I'm Garrett Stack.

[44:23] And this moment in time, the beginning of 2022,

[44:27] as Broadway wrestles with the pandemic

[44:30] and it's hanging on.

[44:34] It's got very strict protocol about who can come in.

[44:37] And you must prove vaccines.

[44:39] And you must be able to.

[44:40] And your children have to be vaccinated.

[44:42] And there's a whole protocol.

[44:44] And shows have closed for a week at a time

[44:48] because many of the cast people have come down

[44:52] with the COVID infection.

[44:54] So you really need to check to see what's open.

[44:57] These shows that we're listening to are all open.

[45:01] But that can change at any time.

[45:04] And you just have to keep your ears and eyes open.

[45:08] But let's go to a show, a show that opened in March of 2011.

[45:18] That's over 10 years ago.

[45:20] Great, funny, hilarious, and the Book of Mormon.

[45:28] Hello, my name is Elder Price.

[45:32] And I would like to share with you the most amazing book.

[45:38] Hello, my name is Elder Grant.

[45:41] It's a book about America a long, long time ago.

[45:45] It has so many awesome parts.

[45:49] You simply won't believe how much this book can

[45:51] change your life.

[45:53] Hello, my name is Elder Green.

[45:56] I would like to share with you this book of Jesus Christ.

[46:00] Hello, my name is Elder Young.

[46:03] Hello, did you know that Jesus lived here in the USA?

[46:09] Read all about it now.

[46:11] In this nifty book, it's free.

[46:13] No, you don't have to pay.

[46:15] Hello, my name is Elder Smith.

[46:19] And can I leave this book with you for you to just peruse?

[46:24] I'll just leave it here.

[46:26] It has a lot of information you can really use.

[46:30] Hello.

[46:32] My name is Jesus Christ.

[46:33] You have a lovely whole kiss who gives you

[46:42] the secret to eternal life.

[46:44] How good is Christ?

[47:10] No, Elder Cunningham.

[47:13] That's not how we do it.

[47:14] You're making things up again.

[47:16] Just stick to the approved dialogue.

[48:22] Ever since I was a child, I tried to be the best.

[48:26] So what happened?

[48:29] My family and friends all said I was blessed.

[48:33] So what happens to be all so exciting?

[48:38] The teaching of Christ crossed the sea.

[48:41] But I allowed my faith to be shaken.

[48:44] Oh, what's the matter with me?

[48:47] I've always longed to help the needy,

[48:50] to do the things I never dared.

[48:53] This was the time for me to step up.

[48:56] So then why was I so scared?

[48:59] A warlord who shoots people in the face.

[49:02] What's so scary about that?

[49:05] I must trust that my Lord is mightier,

[49:08] and always has my back.

[49:11] Now I must be completely devout.

[49:14] I can't have even one shred of diverse eye for my sin.

[49:46] You cannot just believe part way.

[49:48] You have to believe in it all.

[49:51] The problem was doubting the Lord's will instead

[49:55] of standing tall.

[49:57] I can't allow myself to have any doubt.

[49:59] It's time to set my worries free.

[50:02] Time to show the world what Elder Price is about,

[50:05] and share the power inside of the excitement.

[51:37] Since the moment I was born to do,

[51:43] to be sharing my faith with you should

[51:46] say that if you must ask him and you'll know it's all true,

[52:22] you'll just feel it.

[52:25] Be a Mormon.

[52:53] Steve Andrew Rannell's leading the ensemble

[52:57] in the Book of Mormon there opened in 2011.

[53:00] And at this moment in time, in Broadway history,

[53:04] it is still running and really good show.

[53:10] Well, we're just about at the end of time

[53:12] here and this moment of time on Broadway.

[53:16] And I want to end with Hamilton, which of course opened in 2015

[53:20] and has never stopped.

[53:22] It's just such a sensation in American history.

[53:26] I want to play this song.

[53:28] It's called Dear Theodosia.

[53:30] And it's where Aaron Burr looks at his baby daughter

[53:35] and imagines her world in this brand new country.

[53:39] And Alexander Hamilton looks at his brand new son, Philip,

[53:44] and imagines the same thing.

[53:47] And some of the lyrics are, if we lay a strong enough

[53:51] foundation, we'll pass it on to you.

[53:55] We'll give the world to you, and you'll blow us all away

[54:00] with what you can do.

[54:03] From Hamilton.

[54:04] Dear Theodosia, what to say to you?

[54:18] You have my eyes.

[54:19] You have your mother's name.

[54:21] When you came into the world, you cried,

[54:25] and it broke my heart.

[54:31] I am dedicating every day.

[54:35] Domestic life was never quite my style when you smile.

[54:42] You knocked me out, I fall apart,

[54:45] and I thought I was so smart.

[54:48] You will come of age with our young nation.

[54:52] We then fight for you.

[54:55] We'll make it right for you in day-ation.

[55:01] We'll pass it on to you.

[55:04] We'll give the world to you, and you'll blow us all away.

[55:07] Someday, someday.

[55:22] The smile I am undone.

[55:39] There is so much more inside me now.

[55:45] You outshine the morning sun.

[55:55] I fall apart, and I thought I was so smart.

[56:06] I'll be your, yeah, you'll blow us all away.

[57:08] Let me tell you what I wish I'd known

[57:11] when I was young and dreamed of glory.

[57:15] You have no control.

[57:16] Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?

[57:20] President Jefferson, I'll give him this.

[57:22] His financial system is a work of genius.

[57:25] I couldn't undo it if I tried.

[57:28] I've tried.

[57:30] Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?

[57:33] President Madison, he took our country

[57:35] from bankruptcy to prosperity.

[57:38] I hate to admit it, but he doesn't

[57:39] get enough credit for all the credit he gave us.

[57:42] Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?

[57:46] Every other founding father's story gets told.

[57:49] Every other founding father gets to grow old.

[57:53] And when you're gone, who remembers your name?

[57:55] Who keeps your flame?

[57:57] Who tells your story?

[57:59] Who tells your story?

[58:14] I'm on tears.

[58:15] I live another 50 years.

[58:17] It's not enough.

[58:19] I established the first private orphanage in New York City.

[59:31] The orphanage.

[59:33] I helped raise hundreds of children.

[59:36] I get to see them growing.

[60:38] Rhonda, his story, Hamilton.

[60:41] This is a moment in time, the beginning of 2022,

[60:45] as Broadway struggles and stays strong

[60:49] during this pandemic.

[60:52] I'll see you next time with more great music.

[61:11] Madison area jugglers present the 47th annual

[61:15] Mad Fest Juggling Extravaganza,

[61:17] hosted by comedy and yo-yo man, Mark Hayward,

[61:20] on Saturday, January 17th at the Barrymore Theater.

[61:24] This annual event features an array

[61:26] of circus arts and more.

[61:28] This year's lineup includes high energy comedy

[61:30] from Alex Serby and Kenny Aaron,

[61:32] juggling and art from Jay Gilligan and David Chernovi,

[61:35] masterful sear wheeling from Ali Ott,

[61:38] plus support from local club passing heroes,

[61:40] the Mad Jugglers.

[61:42] More information about the show

[61:43] can be found at barrymorelive.com.

[61:46] The 47th annual Mad Fest Juggling Extravaganza

[61:49] is on Saturday, January 17th at the Barrymore at 7 p.m.

[61:53] We were listening to WORT.

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