“You Will Be Found” - Broadway Backwards 2021
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- “You Will Be Found”
by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul from Dear Evan Hansen
Performed by Jenn Colella, Jay Armstrong Johnson and Cast
Broadway Backwards, the annual Broadway extravaganza celebrating the LGBTQ+ community through the great songs of musical theater, returns to Broadway’s New Amsterdam Theatre on Monday, March 13, 2023. The beloved evening and its star-studded cast will embrace love and self-expression in true Broadway fashion.
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Amy Adams, James Monroe Iglehart, Cheyenne Jackson, L Morgan Lee, Raymond J. Lee, Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Ruthie Ann Miles, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jessie Mueller, Kelli O’Hara, Karen Olivo, Bernadette Peters, Sis and Elizabeth Stanley with special appearances by Debbie Allen, Matt Bomer, Brenda Braxton, Len Cariou, Glenn Close, Loretta Devine, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Cherry Jones, Aasif Mandvi, Michael McElroy, Javier Muñoz, Jim Parsons, Eve Plumb, Roslyn Ruff and Tony Yazbeck.
Written & Directed by
Robert Bartley
Director of Photography & Editor
Eamon Foley
Music Supervisor
Mary-Mitchell Campbell
Music Director
Ted Arthur
Associate Director
Joshua Buscher-West
Music Producer & Audio Engineer
Benedict Braxton-Smith
Sound Designer
Matt Kraus
VFX Designer
Tyler Milliron
The first virtual edition of Broadway Backwards provided an exuberant, exhilarating and emotional evening of performances on Tuesday, March 30, 2021, raising support for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center.
The online event, which debuted March 30, 2021, and streamed for four days, explored how the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic has specifically affected the LGBTQ community. The show will feature Jay Armstrong Johnson as an isolated New Yorker who hallucinates a fantastical journey guided by a late night television host, portrayed by Jenn Colella.
The virtual show opened in pandemic New York City, where a young man named Billy (Jay Armstrong Johnson) makes his way through a slush-laden winter day. Following him on his commute through the city were visions of Stephanie J. Block, Deborah Cox and Lea Salonga, performing a present-day version of Dear Evan Hansen’s “Waving Through A Window.” As he asks the divas in his mind, “Is anybody waving back at me?,” Billy distracts himself from his isolation with wine, prescription medication and an imaginary late-night television show called Up All Night With Colella.
Hosted by Jenn Colella, Up All Night With Colella guides the theatre-loving Billy through a late night deep dive of showtunes, including memorable numbers from previous editions of Broadway Backwards.
The performance concluded with a star-studded version of “You Will Be Found,” also from Dear Evan Hansen. This song featured performances by Amy Adams, James Monroe Iglehart, Cheyenne Jackson, L Morgan Lee, Raymond J. Lee, Telly Leung, Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Ruthie Ann Miles, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jessie Mueller, Kelli O’Hara, Karen Olivo, Bernadette Peters, Sis and Elizabeth Stanley with special appearances by Debbie Allen, Matt Bomer, Brenda Braxton, Len Cariou, Glenn Close, Loretta Devine, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Cherry Jones, Aasif Mandvi, Michael McElroy, Javier Muñoz, Jim Parsons, Eve Plumb, Roslyn Ruff and Tony Yazbeck.
Creator Robert Bartley returned as writer and director for this virtual version of the show. He was joined by Mary-Mitchell Campbell as music supervisor, Ted Arthur as music director and Eamon Foley as director of photography and video editor. Joshua Buscher-West joined as associate director, Nick Connors as orchestrator, Benedict Braxton-Smith as music producer and audio engineer, Matt Kraus as sound designer and Samantha Rodriguez as costume designer.
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Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is one of the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the American theater community, since 1988 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has raised more than $300 million for essential services for people with HIV/AIDS, COVID-19 and other critical illnesses across the United States.
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is the major supporter of the social service programs at the Entertainment Community Fund (formerly The Actors Fund), including the HIV/AIDS Initiative, the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative and The Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts. Broadway Cares also awards annual grants to more than 450 AIDS and family service organizations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., providing lifesaving medication, healthy meals, counseling and emergency assistance.
For more information, please visit Broadway Cares online at broadwaycares.org, at BCEFA, at BCEFA, at tiktok.com/@bcefa and at / bcefa .
This literally made me bawl. Dear Evan Hansen has made me bawl more times than I can count. I did not expect to react like this. I watched it live when it aired and I was a hot blubbering mess. I even donated my last $10 to the fundraiser because when I was coming out as trans as a late teen, the Attic Youth Center in Philadelphia saved my life. And I want kids elsewhere to have what I had. Thank you for this.
oh my gosh I needed this so much, Jenn is the impersonation of kindness and love. And then Bernadette, and Lea Salonga, this made me smile so wide but I also kept crying
I was sobbing but yet part of my head was just screaming OMG ITS SHELDON
This actually made me cry. Thank you so much, this made my day. This means so much to me.
I wasn’t ready. So beautiful. A testament to our community
ok i cried. you will be found does that doesn't it...
In the context of the story in Dear Evan Hansen (spoilers omitted), this song has always felt… terribly sad. It reminds me of a very touching video submitted to the Trevor Project ("it gets better") by a young teen… who died by suicide very shortly after posting it. I'm omitting a link out of respect for privacy, but my gods, it's heart wrenching. In the musical, Evan himself knew that the chorus of this wasn't true. So this song feels not genuinely hopeful (except from those who've not been through it), but more like a desperate self deception born of grief. Which is more sad than I can express.
I was sure I wouldn't cry but that "you're not alone" part really hits you
In the darkest moment of my life I was found. I love this song so much. Thank you Broadway. A new charity group I add to my favorit list.
I’m not crying, I just have something in my eye
Hi I'm the T in the LGBTQ+ and let me just say that this video had me crying so hard like a baby.......last year was a complete disaster for me due to everything shutting down and not being able to see my friends and it caused me to feel lonely and I ended up spiraling down into a dark hole that I couldn't get out of and it caused me to have suicidal thoughts but this song "You Will Be Found" got me out of my funk because it reassured me that I'm not alone even when I think I am......I keep this song on repeat like all the time to remind myself that Im never alone......so thank you for this amazing and very emotional video ❤💛💚💙💜💋😭😍
hi, im the same. My life just went down hill due to covid
I didn’t know how bad I needed to hear Jenn Colella and Jessie Mueller singing this song, but it definitely made my day! This whole video did! I’m SO glad I found this!!
Thank you from Singapore. Such a beautiful initiative can be emulated and adapted in other countries to help struggling communities through these strangely fragmented times.
So powerful. I'm not crying, you're crying!
Ugh...this made me cry hard. As someone who survived two suicide attempts, this hits hard.
Wish it was on spotify so I could listen to it all the time.
You can stream the original version from Dear Evan Hansen but not this version unfortunately. Also you are so incredibly strong for going through that and you are not alone!♥️
@@kianam6192 I have the original version saved on my favourites already. :P But I gotta be honest...I prefer this one.
Also super bummed they made the original video private. I knew it was gonna happen so I must've listened to the whole show like 30 times before they did. XD
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this was everything! made me cry. hard.
It hits me right away. Lately, I feel alone but I found this video. Thank you Broadway Cares 💕
Soon, I will be found.
I thought I was done crying during You Will Be Found, I was wrong. I am now crying at work.
These videos are so great.:-)I love that song.:-(:-(
I was fortunate enough to see this on Broadway right after Ben Platt won the Tony. I legitimately cried from the first song to The last song and I think I cried the hardest during the song. I still can't listen to the soundtrack without bursting into tears.
WOW! WOW! WOW! No words can describe this video!!! Wait found some: Amazing, encouraging, hope, love. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. It's great to see these lovely actors again, providing us a safe space during this dark times, giving us hope that soon theatre will com back stronger than ever and sending a message that can't be forgotten (and personally has carried me during this hard year) YOU WILL BE FOUND!!!!
Thank you for releasing this! So beautiful and powerful!
Not me having a literal stroke when Jenn Colella appeared 😭💀
this is beautiful. thank you❤
DEH has never made me cry.... butt im sobbing
Wowowowowow. I was sure I wasn’t going to cry but that was so beautiful. It’s true, we are not alone ❤️
I’m glad I found this, or maybe this has found me! We are not alone. ❤️
Thank you for this.
Truly amazing ❤️
omg so many of my favs in this video
Other than cry my eyes out with this all-star at home version of You Will Be Found, the high school drama club kid, who played a disciple name Therese, in Godspell, sang along with everyone in this video. I'm glad that I donated whatever I can to this cause, because I feel terrible that the Broadway community all over the world is suffering financially, because of the Covid 19 pandemic. Plus I want to work with everyone in this video on the Broadway stage after the pandemic is over! I miss those theatre days of not only projecting & increase the volume of my voice on stage, but I miss having my cast members & me saying, "Break a leg!". Break a leg Broadway Cares in raising money to help all in the community get whatever they need.
Terrific! All thee celebrity cameos/performers did great.
im bawling.
Outstanding!
beautiful
i didn’t expect this to be so good i have ALL of the feels
Love this, but Jenn is sounding like his weird inspirational therapist
I know
I watched the whole damn thing earlier today, and I was in public so I couldn’t cry, but I was close to it ngl. It’s pure cheese and it has me.
Just say it’s allergies!
It was awesome.
I really, really needed the you are not alone part today.
Hey, y'all.....I'm the "G" in this group....and this moved me so much. Was confused initially thinking to myself that I had seen these videos before....but the way they incorporated past performances from this fundraiser into this year's fundraiser, given the pandemic, was wonderfully done. Poor editor! I think Jenn Collela was perfect for the narrator, MC, voice of reason/hope, was great. I have looked for the name of the man, young man, suffering through this, as many of us have, though there is something particularly unique living in a city, which is my hometown, with 16 million people and feeling completely alone which resonated with me for many reasons...as I have experienced that, myself. I'd like to know who he was. Also, perhaps because I live in Italy, now....for 10 years and been out of the loop except for what I read online and in the TIMES, I need to ask what Eve Plumb was doing there. Anyone? Has she come back from her self imposed isolation back to acting? Just curious. The number above, of course, I knew, as I have heard it used in so many videos over the past 2 years, especially, for so many different reasons. One, in particular, was made for anti bullying week, in the UK where a young boy who had been bullied, violently, solely for loving theatre, singing...and a movement began to help him and has spread to, well, everywhere, #cheepupcharlie......a video was made with West End performers which is equally moving. Have heard this song in English, German, French, Italian ("Sarai Ritrovato" is the name I gave it in Italian), Dutch, etc. Watch it. It is beautiful. There is, I believe, nothing worse than knowing you are inches away from millions of people but feeling alone. Another sensation I am familiar with. Anyway, loved it! Peace to you all....remain safe, vaccine and mask. - Gary, Ferriere, Italy....via NYC
Wow so beautiful and such a strong message,
Thank you so much for sharing your time and talent doing this. It's at the same time a heartbroken and uplifting video.
as a queer teenager who's never felt more isolated than right now, i absolutely needed this. i already love the original song, but this version is so much more powerful. i sobbed through the whole thing. thank you =)
I cried too! so beautiful and amazingly important. Take care everyone xoxo
Absolutely beautiful!
Here’s my second comment on this video. Yes! When he called Bernadette Peters “Diva!”, yes I so agree with him that she’s one of my Broadway queens, but for me, my fave Broadway diva, my Queen, idol & Pinay (meaning Filipina) sister, is Lea Salonga! I was surprised that the upstairs neighbor the guy kept on yelling at all night long, is cute & by the judge on the neighbor’s smile, is interested in the main character. I didn’t see it coming that the one, who mailed back the Christmas card to the main character is his mother. That’s cool that it indicates that the guy’s mother called back her son, & she loves her son after all. That the mom does care about her son’s well being.
this saved my life. oh my god AHHHHHHHHHH thank you so much.
This was beautiful, so powerful and much needed right now. Thank you for putting this incredible piece together!
Oh the feels! I'm not crying, you're crying!
Wow 😢
Thank you - In Rural areas we have to work harder to reach out and help those in need.....
It's up to us - So Nomatter where you live -
If you havent heard from someone in a bit - Check in......
We all can do our part!
Thank you for your posts!
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Wow! Lea Salonga was here too! ❤
this song always makes me cry, that's ok though, because sometimes you just need to let it all out.
Wow.
I don't generally respond to myself, but I have to say that I have watched both this version and the full version since they came out, more times than I can count. I'm an old Queer man from Colorado and I have to say that I have developed a crush on Jay Armstrong Johnson. 😂 Thanks to everyone involved with creating this amazing video.
Will from will and grace!!!!
Oh yes, I cried the 1st time I saw it, and Still do many views later. So beautiful AND Powerful. The entire show was just Amazing. PLEASE DONATE PEOPLE!!!!
Is there any chance to see this full show once again ? ! Please !
I wish I could watch this whole performance somehow, hell I’d pay money for it easy.
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Oh.
How on earth does this have so few views?
Wait. That's Lea Salonga. 😯
Does our guy get together with ths guy upstairs or does he go back to his ex?
This is great but it missed Ben Platt...
Yeah. So that's how you make an outreach video.
Gal Gadot, take notes.
And yet, Amy Adams was in both.
9 Thumbs down? Honestly!
beautiful