Prior to this moment, one of my big pet peeves was YouTube stage videos in which the shadows of audience-member heads and clapping took away from the production at hand. But since I didn’t get to see ‘The Prom’ I was perusing online videos of its finale, ‘It’s Time to Dance’ and when I came across this one, I actually found comfort and solace in the immersive bump, shaky camerawork, and welcome-intrusions of the heads of audience members early in the clip. It may be some time before we get to experience that again, and I didn’t realize how much it was a part of a performance.
Then there’s the exuberance of the song and the performances of the actors/dancers/singers, and taken together they’re enough to lift me up for one Saturday night. Spoiler alert: you may want to have a tissue at the ready when the audience erupts into applause and cheers at the kiss.
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