Actresses sing Company number for Sondheim’s 90th birthday as well as the musical’s 50th anniversary
commemorating the composer’s 90th birthday.
The trio of actresses weren’t doing much lunching in their respective homes, but they sure demonstrated how to make a stiff drink, with Baranski sipping one full wine glass after another, Streep moving from martinis to straight scotch and McDonald belting out show-stopping notes in between shots of vodka.
The free online concert, Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration, featured additional performances by Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin, Donna Murphy, Kristin Chenoweth, Sutton Foster, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kelli O’Hara, Aaron Tveit, Maria Friedman, Iain Armitage, Katrina Lenk, Michael Cerveris, Brandon Uranowitz, Stephen Schwartz, Elizabeth Stanley, Chip Zien, Alexander Gemignani, Beanie Feldstein and Ben Platt, among others.
In addition to toasting Sondheim’s birthday, the event also fell on the 50th anniversary of the opening night of , which debuted on Broadway on April 26th, 1970. Proceeds from Take Me to the World will be donated to ASTEP , an organization that connects youth from underserved communities to the visual and performing arts.
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