Due to Covid-19, The Muny had to postpone their 2020 season to 2021. In lieu of the originally announced 2020 season lineup, a complete schedule of virtual alternative programming was announced. This lineup will include a new series featuring Muny friends and family from around the world called The Muny 2020 Summer Variety Hour Live! For 5 weeks we livestreamed from The Muny a variety show that included segments both old and new. I was responsible from laying out the ground work from the beginning of how the technical aspects of streaming something like this would work and oversaw the stream quality and production checks during rehearsal and live. Old content, clips from The Muny vault of past shows, were cut by myself from over almost a decades worth of footage. Each episodes contained about 3-5 different archive clips from past shows. Each week's episodes were streamed live on Monday, replayed on Thursday (with captions/audio descriptions included) and rehearsed the Friday prior. We would have a production meeting each Saturday morning to go over any notes and edits to the content and schedule. Outside of creating content for the show and overseeing the livestream, I worked with a local Audio Describer company to make sure we could have a fully accessible version of the show available on Thursday, this meant getting each segment audio described and editing the audio in by Thursday morning to have ready to stream that night. Details about the productions: https://muny.org/details-announced-for-the-muny-2020-summer-variety-hour-live/ https://muny.org/muny-announces-record-breaking-streaming-totals-for-first-ever-online-season/ Check out a recap of the productions and a behind-the-scenes look at what it took to create:
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