Marissa Jaret Winokur, who originated the function of Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray on Broadway, additionally makes a cameo look within the parody.
Oh, oh, oh! Ariana Grande and James Corden are celebrating the end of COVID-related lockdowns in most American states. On Tuesday night, the 27-yr-antique singer teamed up with the late-night time comic, forty-two, for an epic musical parody performance on The Late Late Show, sung to the song of “Good Morning Baltimore” from Hairspray.
Titled “No Lockdowns Anymore,” the clip opens with Corden exiting his home in a bathrobe, as he exclaims that he awakened “feeling okay” for the first time in months after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last yr. “Got the vaccine, and it’s been weeks,” he sings on the song. “There’s life in the streets!”
Grande finally joins in, making a song approximately the exhilaration of getting her hair cut and heading lower back to the gym. Before she is joined through Marissa Jaret Winokur – who originated the position of Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray on Broadway – to sing more approximately getting lower back to normalcy.
“It’s been so long because I’ve placed on my footwear / So oh, oh, let’s hit the club / Or get drunk and get matching tattoos,” the duo croon collectively as of Tuesday, forty-three.Nine% of the population inside the United States is fully vaccinated simultaneously as 52.6% have obtained as a minimum one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, consistent with statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Earlier this month, any other late-night time show celebrated slow reopenings amid the COVID-19 pandemic when Lin-Manuel Miranda stopped by way of The Tonight Show to honor Broadway’s eventual comeback with a celeb-studded musical quantity along with host Jimmy Fallon.
Titled “Broadway’s Back” and partially set to the song “You’ll Be Back” from Miranda’s ruin hit Hamilton. The skit finds the duo paying tribute to an array of Broadway hits, consisting of West Side Story, Dear Evan Hansen, and The Book of Mormon, among many others.
Opening with Fallon, 46, lamenting an international without Broadway, Miranda, 41, tells the overdue-night-time host that “Broadway’s coming back” earlier than the two – in conventional musical style – ruin into the track to celebrate.