This American Life: Live at BAM

Jun 20, 2014

1h 49m

★ 8.1

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Music

Production Companies

Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ)

This American Life: Live at BAM Trailers

Cast

Host

Ira Glass

Self

Mike Birbiglia

Self

Sasheer Zamata

Narrator

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Naomi

Lindsay Mendez

Himself (Musical Guest)

Stephin Merritt

David

James Ransone

Justin Laboy

Anthony Ramos

Joshua

Josh Hamilton

Narrator

Joshuah Bearman

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0.0

Voltei!

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0.0

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7.0

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6.7

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7.4

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9.5

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6.7

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0.0

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7.3

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6.2

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8.4

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10.0

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9.0

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0.0

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0.0

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0.0

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