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.

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  Ira Glass

  Host
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  Mike Birbiglia

  Self
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  Sasheer Zamata

  Self
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  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Narrator
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  Lindsay Mendez

  Naomi
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  Stephin Merritt

  Himself (Musical Guest)
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  James Ransone

  David
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  Anthony Ramos

  Justin Laboy
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  Josh Hamilton

  Joshua
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  Joshuah Bearman

  Narrator