The coronavirus pandemic may have stopped the jazz hands of Broadway until (at least) May 2021, but Today was able to give it a bailout … for just one morning during the episode Friday’s de facto Halloween Halloween, Hoda Kotb, Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker and the rest of today’s main group of hosts have strayed from the news to continue their tradition of displaying messy costumes for the holidays, which all came directly from the locker room Leading Broadway Productions While Kotb and Guthrie managed to grab the original costumes of Glinda and Elphaba from Wicked, Roker secured the playful sons of King George III of Hamilton (« I’m still wearing some of Jonathan’s sweat Groff, « he joked incorrectly) Jenna Bush Hager, despite the lack of digital fur technology, gave us cats PTSD
We danced We sang We even got cheers from Broadway stars! Take a look behind the scenes at our #HalloweenTODAY extravaganza imageTwittercom / csTg6qyCIx
« It really means a lot to us to pay homage to Broadway This community, as we know, has been really, really hard hit by the pandemic, » Kotb explained when the laughter subsided. “The theaters might be closed, but when Broadway heard we wanted to do a show, people from all the different productions came and went. They opened costume stores that closed. Contestants even got together to help « But if you still thought the hosts wouldn’t find an excuse to perform a marquee-themed song and dance, well, you obviously have no idea how Today works.
We celebrate the stories, scores and songs that move us Welcome to Best of Broadway TODAY! #HalloweenTODAY 🎃 picTwittercom / QKV7XVVKkY
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