Stephin Merritt - This American Life - The Radio Drama Episode

Stephin Merritt performs in the This American live show at BAM.

Nearly 50 actors, singers, dancers, musicians, and comedians joined Ira Glass onstage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Opera House on June 7, 2014, to try some things they'd never tried before. The result? Journalism turned into opera, into plays, into a Broadway musical (by Lin-Manuel Miranda, starring Lindsay Mendez and Anthony Ramos). Comedy from Mike Birbiglia and Saturday Night Live’s Sasheer Zamata. Songs from Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields. Dance from Monica Bill Barnes & Company. Video directed by Seth Lind and produced by Ben Cohen and Ben Katz.

[alucard]

Emotions, expressed and induced. Masterful performance.

[caseymcdonald]

I just freaked out as soon as I heard his voice... He's the musician for the Series of Unfortunate Events audio books!!!! <3 <3 <3 AHHH!

[AtlasGeneticist]

The Tragic Treasury made my childhood checking out the audio book versions of "A Series of unfortunate events" on cd and listening on a small portable player
so glad he's still performing tracks from the album :D