Singer Willie Nelson performs during a concert honoring him as the recipient of the Library of Congress’ Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in Washington November 18, 2015. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Jimmy Kimmel is streaming nightly monologues from home. Willie Nelson and John Legend are playing music online. Broadway stars like Idina Menzel are singing and chatting from their homes. The stars are showing us that the show must always go on. Movie theaters, theatres on Broadway and London’s West End, and concert venues may have shuttered their doors because of the coronavirus pandemic. Still, actors, comedians, and musicians are giving life to the famous adage: The show must go on. Comedians Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, and Trevor Noah this week began streaming monologues from their homes after production on their late-night television talk shows were shut down last week. On Tuesday night, Colbert opened his CBS show outside his New Jersey house, standing by his barbecue grill. The previous night, he performed his monologue from his bathtub, sitting in clouds of bubbles while clad in a suit and tie. ABC’s Kimmel, in his “quarantine monologue,” joked that being isolated at home with his family was proving a learning experience. “I learned I have two young children… Thank God for the television. My blood type now is Disney positive,” he quipped.
the magazine said in a statement. Country music veteran Willie Nelson’s annual festival “Luck Reunion,” usually held in his Austin, Texas, backyard, will be live-streamed on Thursday with artists filming themselves at home. Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and John Legend each performed “Together, At Home” shows on Instagram this week. The shows, organized by Global Citizen and the World Health Organization, will next feature singer-songwriter Charlie Puth.“Artists and venues around the globe are coming up with innovative ways to keep the lights on and the music playing, without leaving the house,”
—Reuters
By Jill Serjeant
