- [yelling]
♪
- A lot of people.
♪
- Yes!
- Well, hello.
- Beautiful group. - How are you?
- We are wonderful!
[cheers and applause]
- Love that.
Okay, so what's the name of the group, please?
- This is JW's Inspirational Singers of New York City!
[cheers and applause]
- Let's hear a little bit about you guys, please.
- Each and every one of these people
come from the Broadway, film, and TV world.
- Oh.
- And I thought we would come together
and we'd do something that's outside
of the box of what we normally do.
- We enjoy doing something as a group
to spread our message of togetherness and unity.
[cheers and applause]
- Yeah.
- Do you describe yourself as a choir, or...?
- Yes, we are a choir, but we sing any and everything.
We might do some Mahalia Jackson today,
and then we might do some Beyoncé tomorrow.
- And how did you come up with the song choice?
- I heard this song, and I said,
"We need to perform this song sometime, some way,
on a huge stage." And look at us now.
[cheers and applause]
- We did a new arrangement to it.
We added more choir stuff in it.
- Yeah. - It's just dope, y'all.
- Okay. Okay. - "It's dope, y'all."
- Best of luck, all of you. - Whoo!
[cheers and applause]
[Cynthia Erivo's "Stand Up"]
- ♪ I've been walking
♪
♪ With my face turned to the sun ♪
♪
♪ Weight on my shoulders
♪ Bullet in my gun
♪ Whoa
- ♪ I'm wading through muddy waters ♪
♪ You know I got a made up mind ♪
♪
♪ Whoa
♪
all: ♪ And I don't mind if I lose any blood ♪
♪ On the way to salvation
- ♪ And I'll fight with the strength that I got ♪
all: ♪ Until I die
- ♪ And I know all: ♪ Know
- ♪ What's around the bend
all: ♪ Bend - ♪ Might be
all: ♪ Hard to face
♪ 'Cause I'm alone
- ♪ And I just might all: ♪ Fail
- ♪ But Lords knows I've all: ♪ Tried
♪ Sure as stars
♪ Fill up the sky
- ♪ Whoa
all: ♪ Stand up
♪ Take my people with me
♪ Together we are going
♪ To a brand new home
♪ Far across the river
♪ Can you hear freedom calling? ♪
♪ Calling me to answer?
♪ Gonna keep on keeping on
♪ I'm gonna stand up - ♪ Stand
all: ♪ Take my people with me
♪ Together we are going
♪ To a brand new home
♪ Far across the river
♪ I hear freedom calling
- ♪ Can you hear it? all: ♪ Calling me to answer
♪ Gonna keep on keeping on
- ♪ I can feel it
♪ In my bones
- Whoo!
- ♪ I go
♪ To prepare a place for you ♪
all: ♪ I go
♪
[cheers and applause]
[tender music]
♪
- Okay. Howie.
- Wow, I've got to say that even before you sang,
the appreciation of the moment, the appreciation of humanity,
the appreciation of inspiring, you are more than just a choir.
You are kind of an event.
So thank you so much for being here.
- Thank you. - Heidi.
- There was just so much going on.
I guess also because there's so many single special parts,
you know, that you all take. I felt you guys.
I felt every single one of you.
- Thank you. - Yeah.
- Whoo! - Sofía.
- I think us and everyone that is watching tonight
is gonna have goosebumps because it we also spectacular.
Actually, I felt a little bit like I was, you know,
watching something on Broadway, and each of you are a star.
This was something special for us tonight.
[cheers and applause]
- That was what we call a moment.
Taking a song at the right time
with the right lyric with the right message,
making it your version
and really turning those two minutes
into a very special moment.
It was really, really amazing.
- ♪ Even when the dark comes crashing through ♪
- Okay. Let me start with Mr. Mandel.
- Yes!
["You Will Be Found]
- Heidi Klum.
- It's a yes for me!
[all cheer]
- Sofía Vergara.
- Yes.
[all cheer]
- You have...
♪
Four yeses.
- ♪ So let the sun come streaming in ♪
♪ 'Cause you'll reach up, and you'll rise again ♪
♪
♪ If you only look around
♪ You will be found
- Thank you, guys.
Thank you, guys. Thank you.
- ♪ You will be found
- That's great.
It just makes you-- it's hard to stop smiling.
- ♪ Out of the shadows
- Just to be here--
[laughter]
[all cheer]
all: Hey, hey, hey, hey! - Yes, yes!