Jun 20, 2014
109 min
Full-HD

This American Life: Live at BAM (2014)

It’s This American Life’s wildest, most ambitious live show ever! Nearly 50 actors, singers, dancers, musicians and comedians joined Ira Glass onstage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Opera House on June 7th, 2014 to try some things they'd never tried before. The result? Journalism turned into opera, into plays, into a Broadway musical. Comedy from Mike Birbiglia, and SNL’s Sasheer Zamata. Songs from Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields. Dance from Monica Bill Barnes & Company.

Category

Comedy Drama Music

Country

United States of America

Companies

Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ)

Ira Glass

Host

Mike Birbiglia

Himself

Sasheer Zamata

Herself

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Narrator

Lindsay Mendez

Naomi

Stephin Merritt

Himself (Musical Guest)

James Ransone

David

Anthony Ramos

Justin Laboy

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