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For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Take Me To the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration

Streaming on Broadway.com

Any year but this, Take Me To the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration would have lit up Carnegie Hall, Radio City, or one of the grandest Broadway palaces. But no, in our work-at-home, touch-me-not Age of the Coronavirus, the show unfolded in cyberspace. There it will remain in perpetuity, available to stream free on demand. Clocking in at a trim two-and-a-half hours, Take Me to the World showcases three-dozen Sondheim aficionados in a grab bag of signature favorites and bombshell bonbons. By all means, stick around for the exit music, the survival anthem “I’m Still Here,” from Follies, as interpreted by the 11-year-old Iain Armitage, fresh as paint, and some 50 multigenerational Broadway babies representing the gamut of current musicals shuttered by the pandemic. —M.G.

Meryl Streep, Christine Baranski and Audra McDonald. Photos courtesy of Broadway.com.