In times like these, moments of joy can prove to be scare and fleeting, which is why it’s important to grab onto as many of them as possible. In between bouts of bleak news and mounting stress, some bright little lights have emerged, and one of them is John Krasinski’s new YouTube show, Some Good News.
In only its second episode, Krasinski managed the incredible feat of reuniting the original cast of the Broadway hit ‘Hamilton’ to sing the opening number for a young superfan named Aubrey. According to Krasinski, Aubrey was supposed to go see the show before the entire city of New York went into lockdown. To make up for the disappointment, she’d been watching Mary Poppins Returns (which also stars Krasinski’s wife Emily Blunt) to get her Lin-Manuel Miranda fix. Krasinski promised her a better surprise and, one by one, had the OG Hamilton cast burst into song via Zoom video conference.
The surprise video bomb includes EVERYONE and it is a total, freaking joy to watch. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Anthony Ramos, Daveed Diggs, Phillipa Soo, Christopher Jackson, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, and more all sang their original parts, leaving Aubrey and the rest of us musical theater aficionados bursting with joy.
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