Elisabeth Vincentelli

And so you'll find there's one in which Jonathan Groff, who's in this Broadway show just in time, is trying to learn a dance.

He's not a dancer exactly, but he's a hard worker and he gets it.

And that little clip is then interpreted by...

hundreds of people trying to do the same dance.

And it reminds me of my writing down the lyrics to A Little Night Music, the need and the power of putting that art form into your own body in your own home.

Mm-hmm.

And there's a bunch of them.

There's some from The Great Gatsby.

There's some from Chicago, famous.

There's a great one from Chicago.

So TikTok is another one.

That's something that happened with the musical Six, the musical about the six wives of Henry VIII trying to, in a competition, to see who had the worst luck at his hands.

And by the time I saw it pre-Broadway in Chicago, the audience was full of people already singing the songs.

Which, interestingly, that used to be the case before the Beatles, let's say.

When pop music was theater music and theater music was pop music, people wouldn't already know the songs when they came to see the show because they'd been recorded by 10, 12, 15 people and were on the radio all the time.

That completely disappeared.

And now it's coming back in a different form.

Well, if you're actually starting from zero, I think any way in that interests you is the way to go.

But let's say you know something about it and you're looking for what are the greats, whether contemporary or classic, we could call them.

I think you can't go wrong, and a lot of people have not gone wrong, with Chicago.