This American Life: Live at BAM

June. 20,2014

Rating：

5.7

Genre：

Drama Comedy Music

Keywords：

Live Radio

Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Mike Birbiglia as Himself

Sasheer Zamata as Herself

Lin-Manuel Miranda as Narrator

Lindsay Mendez as Naomi

James Ransone as David

Anthony Ramos as Justin Laboy

Josh Hamilton as Joshua

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