This American Life: Live at BAM

This American Life: Live at BAM

109 mins | Drama, Comedy, Music | June 20, 2014

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.

This American Life: Live at BAM

109 mins | Drama, Comedy, Music | June 20, 2014

This American Life: Live at BAM
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.
Producers Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ)
Original title This American Life: Live at BAM
Directors Seth Lind
Writers Joshuah Bearman, Sasheer Zamata, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ira Glass, Mike Birbiglia

Cast

Ira Glass

as Host

Mike Birbiglia

as Himself

Sasheer Zamata

as Herself

Lin-Manuel Miranda

as Narrator

Lindsay Mendez

as Naomi

Stephin Merritt

as Himself (Musical Guest)

James Ransone

as David

Anthony Ramos

as Justin Laboy

Josh Hamilton

as Joshua

Joshuah Bearman

as Narrator