The photo I just posted of Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick was taken, I think, at the taping of the post-9/11 commercial for the Broadway community. Only a few days after the disaster, someone managed — in less time than seems humanly possible — to put together an ad spot that was shot in Times Square, featuring everyone who was then currently in a Broadway show, all singing "New York, New York." Does anyone have or know where I can find a tape or DVD or downloadable video of this spot? I thought it was just extraordinary.
Trio used to run a little three minute (or so) version of it between shows, and it included the pre-record of the voice track, and showed all the people turning out on the morning of the taping, and I thought it was wonderfully inspirational. I don't know what it did for the New York theater industry — how fast it helped business come back — but it sure made me feel good to see all those people pulling together, accomplishing something that must have been a nightmare of logistics.
I had it on the end of a show that I kept for months on my TiVo, and I kept showing it to visitors and saying, "Gee, I've got to dub that off before I forget and delete the recording that it's a part of." And then…guess what. Anyway, if anyone has it, I'd love to have the whole spot as they ran it on Trio but I'll settle for just the final, 30 second finished product. (Actually, like so many of us, I'll settle for whatever I can get…)