Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Students Perform "Seasons of Love" at the 2018 Tony Awards

[chomiji]

I've been watching this over and over, and now you can too:

Dec. 5, 2018: And the video has been taken down. *sigh*

My sweet babies. *happy poignant crying*

Comments

[sovay]

Thank you for linking this. My mother watched the Tonys and described it to me; it made her cry.

[estara]

Awww, says it's not available to me. Is it your alma mater?

[chomiji]

No, they're not from my school. Sorry, I forgot that the school name wouldn't be easily recognizable to people outside the United States.

Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
"Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was the site of a school shooting on February 14, 2018. Seventeen people – fourteen students and three staff members – were fatally shot and seventeen others were wounded, which made the shooting one of the deadliest school massacres in the United States…" — Wikipedia

The shooting became bigger news than might have been expected, even give the death toll, because many of the youths were in special public speaking, journalism, and drama programs, which were the school's speciality. They filmed events on their phones during the incident, and a number of them took to the media in the months and weeks afterward, giving interviews and appearing on television and at live events. They were articulate and charismatic. Prominent members of the U.S. right-wing media attacked them on the air and online, saying that the students were being coached and manipulated by adults with an anti-gun agenda, or that they were even not students at all, but "crisis actors." I saw several of the young people when I attended the protest "March for Our Lives" this spring. They were very impressive.

These students were performing at the Tony Awards because of this and because their drama teacher, who saved many lives during the shooting, was receiving an award.

If you search for Stoneman Douglas students Tony Awards Seasons of Love, you might be able to find a video that you can see. But without the months of drama leading up to it, the effect may not be as forceful.

[estara]

Oh, those students. I have followed the coverage on the Daily Show and Late Night with Seth Meyers clips on Youtube. I just didn't really take note of the actual name of the school. I talked about it with my boys at school.

That's amazing.