The It’s Lit! Musical Episode (Feat. Lindsay Ellis)

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Some say that theater is dead, and that’s probably because most playhouses the world over are closed at the moment owing to a worldwide pandemic.
and yet the musical lives on… on Disney plus -- as the nation has been rapt with a filmed version of the Broadway smash hit, Hamilton.

This had us come to the realization that a lot of the bread and butter of musical theater is built off of books! And so, like every television program that starts looking for new ideas, it has finally come to this: The It’s Lit! Musical episode

Hosted by Lindsay Ellis and Princess Weekes, It’s Lit! is a show about our favorite books, genres and why we love to read. It’s Lit has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.

Hosted by: Lindsay Ellis
Written by: Lindsay Ellis, Angelina Meehan
Director: David Schulte
Executive Producer: Amanda Fox
Producer: Stephanie Noone
Editors: Derek Borsheim, Sara Roma
Writing Consultants: Maia Krause
Executive Producer (PBS): Adam Dylewski
Editorial Producer (PBS): Gabrielle Ewing

Produced by Spotzen for PBS Digital Studios.

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[ArthurCrane]

"Human embodiment of Theater Kid Energy, Lin Manuel Miranda" got a good laugh out of me.

[joaovictor_of]

Knowing Lindsay, we all knew this episode was coming eventually

[NonsenseWithGlasses]

If Lindsey doesn’t talk about Phantom at least once a month, she ceases to exist.

[enshano]

pbs: "stop that stop that, you're not going into a song while i'm here."

[agrippa.the.cosmonaut-wiz]

Wow, is that NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Lindsay Ellis?!

[CSHallo]

“According to The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical... a thing that exists” is peak Lindsay.

[maeveh]

With Lindsay involved, there was always going to be a musical episode at some point. PBS couldn't stop it.

[marisp]

"...the love.. is still there."
so what you're saying is: the love..







never dies.

[audreygraciam]

Saw the thumbnail, saw Lindsay with her Phantom
*INSTANT CLICK AND LIKE*

[DefaultSeaTurtle]

Lindsey, this was just an excuse to talk about Phantom again, wasn't it? We see you.

[MagicznaPanda]

I was disappointed to learn that this musical episode was, in fact, not a musical.

[shaharyarsheikh]

We know its lindsay when Phantom gets more time than Hamilton

[shadyguy]

Looking forward to Axiom's End: The Musical!

[AveryTalksAboutStuff]

*Human embodiment of theater kid energy* 😂

[AMoniqueOcampo]

This is the most on-brand video Lindsay has ever made.
But I'm KINDA salty that Great Comet didn't get mentioned!

[doogless]

I grew up hating musicals. I thought they were too silly and it's stupid that people randomly start singing. I now really enjoy musicals. I think what changed is that I started reading comic books, an equally silly medium. If I can find meaningful stories in a medium in which a completely acceptable response to seeing your parents murdered is to dress like a bat and punch criminals and one of my favorite characters is an illegal immigrant who is taught American values and represents our greatest potential who can also fly and shoot lasers from his eyes, I can also accept a medium in which characters burst into song and dance around the stage.

[Sgtpepper]

Les Miz: *Hundreds of pages of French history*

Shönberg: “I’d rather... rather... SING...”

[atticwindowful]

When I spotted the first couple Axiom's Ends, I was hoping it would be a gag where each time the camera cut back to her, there'd be more copies appearing behind her throughout, a la Seth Meyers' The Thorn Birds.

[jeremyslather]

And the musical lives on

... disney plus.

[cailinanne]

You know you’re a theatre nerd when two bars of any Les Mis song gives you goosebumps. 🤣🤷🏼‍♀️