Back during the Golden Age of television, commercials were live all the time, now that is never the case. That is until yesterday when during A Christmas Story: Live, Fox aired the first-ever live television commercial for a feature film. That film is the musical The Greatest Showman, and the show’s stars, Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron and Zendaya, sang and danced along with a dozen performers to the movie’s tune Come Alive. Was it worth it? Hell-freaking-yeah! I am sure even more people are going to run out and see it this Wednesday when the film goes from a small scene live ad to an enjoyable feature on the big screen.
James Corden has done several Crosswalk the Musicals in Los Angeles on The Late Late Show including Grease and Beauty and the Beast, and now he taking his act to Broadway. Not inside a theater but on the streets outside those theaters in NYC.
If you are going to take over the great The Great White Way, you need some big names to sing and dance along side you. Therefore he got the three leads from The Greatest Showman to join him on the concrete. Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Zendaya and the CBS late night host belted out New York, New York from Our Town, Sit Down You’re Rocking the Boat from Guys & Dolls, The Greatest Show from The Greatest Showman and closed it out with Fame. All those songs honoring the Big Apple, but they are just missing one, Lullaby of Broadway from 42nd Street. Other than that, bravo, bravo!
Plus, it is a Christmas miracle they are all alive because you don’t mess with NYers and traffic.
The Greatest Showman is coming to theaters in less than two weeks, and the main cast recorded a bit with James Corden today on the streets in Manhattan. What do those streets remind you of? Fame of course, so The Late Late Show host, Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron (in a blonde wig) and Zendaya will recreate that infamous number from the 1980 movie that made us all want to go to the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts.
No word when it will air on CBS, but we will not have to live forever to see it.
