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The woman
of a certain age turned to us, starlight in
her eyes, and enthused, “What a day this has
been, no?” A true Broadway queen, she was
absolutely correct: it was Wall to Wall
Broadway, Symphony Space’s annual
twelve-hour celebration of a century of
musicals. Talk about a cavalcade of stars:
there was Michael Cerveris singing “Pinball
Wizard,” and Rebecca Luker singing Gershwin,
Raul Esparza doing Sondheim, as well as
Martha Plimpton and Brian Stokes Mitchell
and Mary Cleere Haran and B.D. Wong and
Julie Wilson and Liz Callaway and Debbie
Gravitte and Jonathan Hadary and dozens
more—and all of them doing what they do
best: entertaining an adoring sold-out house
with songs from Broadway shows, past and
present. Created and staged by Symphony
Space’s maestro, Isaiah Sheffer, the
celebratory marathon was, as usual, a labor
of love (and FREE for the audience!)—as well
as a reminder of the Broadway world’s
prodigious talents.
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