When you first heard
the word
guilty,
you thought what
gratitude
humility
followed by
a certain sense of
I'll say satisfaction
tonight
the prosecutors in the George, Floyd murder trial.
Tell us about the defendant,
the jury we never saw
and the meaning
of Justice.
You could have charged him with a hate crime
under Minnesota law.
And you chose not to.
The US and Russia have entered a treacherous phase
diplomats being expelled
Russian troops at the Ukraine border
and a Crackdown on protests, over the treatment of
Alexei navalny,
Vladimir Putin's main political rival,
who's being held
in a Russian prison.
We last spoke to navalny in October
while he recovered from
a near-fatal poisoning.
You have said you think
that mr.
Putin's responsible.
I don't think I'm sure that he is responsible.
It's been so long since the Lights Went Out
on Broadway.
And New York's other stages
in small steps.
In this case, many of them,
the city's performers are beginning to play to Grateful
audiences again.
Everyone desperate to get 100,000 people back to work.
Full time,
we've missed that connection, it's about connection, the human
connection.
I'm Leslie, Stahl,
I'm Bill Whitaker, I'm Anderson Cooper.
I'm John wertheim,
I'm Scott.
Pelley
those stories and more tonight
on 60 Minutes.
Derek Chauvin is in solitary confinement.
Tonight awaiting sentencing for the murder of George Floyd,
the former Minneapolis police officer was convicted this past
Tuesday
after the verdict.
The prosecution team sat down with us
including lead.
Prosecutor
Minnesota Attorney General, Keith Ellison.
When you first heard
the word
guilty,
you thought what
gratitude
humility
followed by
a certain sense of
I'll say satisfaction
it's what we were aiming for the whole time.
I spent 16 years as a criminal defense lawyer,
so I will admit I feel a little bad
for the defendant.
I think he deserved to be convicted.
But he's a human being
somehow.
I did not expect to hear from you
a note of compassion
for Derek Shogun.
I'm not
in any way waiver and for my responsibility.
But
I hope we never forget that.
people who are
defendants in our criminal justice system, that
They're human beings are people.
I mean George.
Floyd was a human being
and so
I'm not going to
ever forget that everybody in this process is a
person,
Wilshire
ever a time that you thought you could lose
this case.
I was never convinced we were going to win
this case, until we heard the verdicts of guilty.
I remember what happened in the Rodney King case
when I was a pretty young man, young lawyer,
and I remember how
devastated I felt when I heard that the jury
Those officers
whenever an officer is charged with an offense.
Particularly when the victim is
is a person of color.
it's just rare that there's
Any any accountability?
And so
there was every moment of this case.
I thought
what are we missing?
What haven't we done?
57 year old Keith Ellison represented, Minneapolis and Congress.
He became attorney general in 2019.
In the Chauvin case,
the governor passed over the local County attorney in
favor of Allison.
To give the prosecution Independence
Ellison's.
Team of 14 attorneys worked 11.
To explain
nine minutes and 29 seconds.
We never thought
we could play the video and sit down.
We always knew
we had to put on a full case
and act as if we didn't have a video,
we made sure that the witnesses
could carry it.
There were 45 Witnesses over three weeks,
including
the Minneapolis chief of police
is not part of our training
and it is certainly not part of our ethics,
our
I use
and a leading Authority on the complexities
of a simple breath.
That's the moment.
The life goes out of his body,
which witness
sealed this case for you.
I think it was
mr.
McMillan,
if we're
61 year old guy,
didn't know, George Floyd.
And he came in there
and he cried on the witness stand.
Charles McMillan was among those Witnesses who could plainly
see the humanity
that never seem to register in the eyes of
Derek Chauvin,
as you looked on
the faces of the 12, jurors during the
more difficult
eyewitness
testimony.
What did you see in their faces?
Jerry Blackwell
and Steve? Slusher
presented.
The case.
I saw a kind of empathy
in their faces that that they could feel
what the
Witnesses felt
they could feel the the anguish
they could feel the pain.
They saw the tears,
the Dozen jurors remain anonymous
socially distanced from one another.
They were never seen on camera.
They were bright
and they were taking their responsibilities.
Very seriously.
And you could see that throughout the entire trial
they were leaned forward.
Engaged, taking notes, take notes Furious,
yeah, furiously taking notes.
Several jurors had
Advanced degrees.
One was a registered nurse.
They were overwhelmingly under the age of 40
which was unique
half white
half people of color
to
what I would call traditional African Americans.
You know, people like me,
there were two
African immigrants.
There were two
folks who are
mixed race, who had
think African
descendant, parent
and a white parent.
And then they're the white, jurors were very diverse
to,
you know,
some of them were working class,
others were very highly educated folks, use your common
sense,
the identity of the jurors is one of two
Mysteries of the trial.
The other is
the motive
for the murder.
Was this a hate crime?
I wouldn't call it that
because hate crimes
are crimes where there's an explicit motive
and
of bias.
We don't have any evidence that
Derek Chauvin factored in
George floors race.
As he did.
What he did.
You could have charged him with a hate crime
under Minnesota law.
Yeah.
And you chose not to
could have,
but
we only charge
those crimes that we had evidence
to
that we could put in front of a jury.
Proof
If we too had a witness
that told us
that Derek Shepherd made a racial reference,
we might have charged them with a potato, hate
crime,
but I would have needed a witness to say
that on the stand,
we didn't have it
so we didn't do it.
The whole world
sees this
as a white officer,
killing a black man
because he is black
and you're telling me that there's no evidence to
support that
in our society.
Society,
there is a social Norm
that killing certain kinds of people
is more tolerable
than other kinds of people
in order for us to
stop and pay serious attention to this case and
be outraged by it.
It's not necessary that Derek Shepherd, has specific racial
and
intent
to harm George Floyd.
The fact is we know
that
through housing patterns, through employment through wealth,
through a whole range of other things.
So often
People of color, black people end up with
harsh treatment from law enforcement,
and other folks
doing the exact same thing.
Just don't,
if an officer doesn't throw a white neurologist in
Eden Prairie, Minnesota to the ground
and doesn't
sit on top of his neck.
Is he doing it? Because this is a fellow
white brother.
No, he's doing it because he thinks this is
an important person.
And if I treat them badly,
He's going to ask me about this.
This person probably has lawyers.
They probably knows the governor.
He probably knows.
He has connections.
I can look at the way he's dressed and
the way he talks
that he's probably quote unquote somebody
and so
that's really what it's about.
Why
would this officer
assault
George Floyd?
Well
that's a question.
We've spent a lot of time asking ourselves.
and
all we could come up with is,
What we could Divine from his body language and
his demeanor.
And what we saw
is that the crowd was demanding that he get
up
and he was staring right back at them,
defiantly.
You don't tell me what to do.
I do what I want to do,
you people have no control over me.
I'm going to show you
and what he showed them.
He showed 213
video cameras.
Could you one conviction without the bystander video?
I don't know
if it was just the witness of statements.
I have to say to you, that it was,
I think it was an indispensable piece of this
case.
The first public statement that the Minneapolis Police Department
made
hours after mr.
Floyd was killed,
right?
Was that the police had been involved?
And someone had died of a medical
emergency.
Do you think we ever would have known the
truth
without the video?
You know,
I have real doubts.
They'll be Everwood.
Why would
Derek Chauvin
commit murder
or even assault,
if he knew
he was being recorded, I think that
if he looks at history,
he has every reason to believe that he would
never be held accountable.
They had never been anyone in Minnesota convicted any
police officer convicted of second-degree murder
in the history of our state.
So this is
precedent setting in that way.
So history,
Was on his side,
does George Floyd
bear
any responsibility
in your view
for what happened that day?
No,
he doesn't.
Hey,
if he's gotten in the car,
he'd be alive today.
The fact is,
is that police officers are paid and trained
to deal with people who are having problems.
And
if they're allowed to use deadly force on people
who are just having
a bad day,
then
then we're going to be in a very, very
lethal situation.
We need officers
who have the judgment
and the ability to discern
what somebody is going through.
So that people survive these encounters,
George Floyd was not armed,
he never threatened a soul,
he never struck out on it against anybody.
He did everything the officers
Said
except he had
claustrophobia and anxiety
and couldn't bring himself to get in that car.
How could shovin justify
being on him three minutes after he had no
pulse,
how can he justify not rendering CPR?
How can he justify
not heating George
Floyd's, 27
request to be able to breathe, I can't breathe.
He said, 27 times
how can he just
ignore that?
So
I'm hard pressed to find how George Floyd
Bears responsibility for what happened here.
Look at the totality of the circumstances, Jerry Blackwell
and Steve Swisher presented, the closing arguments but they're
not career prosecutors.
They were recruited by the Attorney, General from Big
law firms because of their talent,
both volunteered to work this case
for free.
It meant a lot to me, personally,
when I have
had my own experiences of
being
stopped,
by the police for no reason,
being harassed for no reason.
And I want to do my part,
Just as a citizen to say
that the rule of law matters,
what does this verdict change?
Does it change
anything?
Well, we won't know,
right? We're in the middle
of History
right now
and so that's yet to be seen
but the rest of it is really up to
the world.
Whether
it changes, what it changes to, what extent,
we're in the middle of this
story.
I don't think that there are any inevitabilities in
Because
we don't make progress
on the wheels of inevitability.
In fact, I think progress Rose like a brick
and
and so each one has to be flipped each
time.
So
when people talk about inflection points and so on,
I'm not really a subscriber to inflection points.
There's no reason to believe
that things were easier going forward.
Then there were to get here and I think
we have to make a consistent effort
every day
to protect the vulnerable
and in the work to reform ourselves.
Which if we don't do there won't be any
Lasting change.
Anyway, if each person doesn't work to make the
change
three other former officers will go on trial together.
In August,
45 year-old, Eric Chauvin will be sentenced by the
judge in mid-june.
George Floyd's family can make a statement at that
hearing and so could Chauvin
if he chooses,
he faces a maximum
of 40 years.
A maximum sentence
would send what kind of message.
I think it is important.
for the court to
Not go light or heavy,
I don't know if it's right for a judge
to send a message through a sentence
because the sentence should be
tailored to the offense
tailored to the circumstances of the case.
Look
the state never wanted revenge against Derek shelving.
We just wanted accountability.
Russian President, Vladimir Putin's political opposition has taken to
the streets.
Once again,
in cities across the country,
they were ignited by the imprisonment of opposition leader
Alexei navalny
who was said to be near death in the
prison.
Infirmary
partly the result of a 24-day hunger strike,
which he ended Friday.
Last month, President Biden announced new sanctions against Russia
for incarcerating navalny,
who has
An international symbol of freedom
and an increasingly autocratic country
navalny was taken into custody.
As he returned to Russia in January,
after treatment, in Germany for a near-fatal poisoning.
We spoke last Fallen Berlin as he recovered
and as we reported, then
he told us, he was aboard a flight from
Siberia
to Moscow
when he began to feel
very sick.
I said to the flight attendant and I kind
of shocked him
with my statement or well, I was poisoned
and I'm going to die and I immediately laid
down
under his feet.
Alexei navalny was on a flight to Moscow from
Siberia
where he'd been campaigning against Putin's party in a
local election, when he collapsed with no pain, but
knowing he was dying,
actually.
Every cell of your body just telling you that
body.
We are done
one of the other
Passengers.
Turn on his phone and captured navalny moaning
in anguish.
The pilot made an emergency landing a gnome Square
Medics thinking.
Navalny must be a drug addict administered, the usual
treatment for an overdose
and rushed him to a local hospital
where they said he wasn't poisoned, but wouldn't let
him leave for days.
Well, it was a big fight
and they thought that after
48 Hours,
these
these poison would be untraceable
and
they just keep me there
until this.
Eight hours will be gone,
navalny is under constant.
Surveillance
his wife Yulia says government agents were at the
hospital controlling access to her husband
and she believes calling the shots
at the time navalny was in a coma
unaware.
That his wife Yulia
was waging a public campaign
to encourage Western diplomatic pressure.
And
did you write a letter to Putin?
Yeah, I did it.
Dear mr.
Putin free my husband,
I agree.
Wrote like I insist that he should do it.
I demand your
free, my husband.
Yeah.
It was a
online campaign.
Let him out
and Putin.
Thought it would be safe for him.
Just let me out after the
48 hours.
So after 48 Hours,
the Russian government allowed him to be flown by
air ambulance,
to a hospital in Berlin
known for its experience with victims of poison attacks
and I gather they suspected poison, right?
Way.
Yes,
of course
meanwhile his team in Siberia, searched his hotel room
collecting things.
Navalny may have touched
like this water bottle,
which the doctors in Berlin sent along with a
blood sample to a German military lab
to see exactly what the poison was.
And the answer
was novichok,
they discover another chalk.
This nerve agent
in my blood inside of body on my body
and all these boss
Bottle
from the hotel.
So
that's why we now we know that I was
poison in the hotel because
I,
well, it's
again, it's just a pure speculation because no one
knows what what what happened.
Exactly.
But I think that
when I was
maybe put some clothes with these,
with this poison on me, I touch it with
the hand and then
I sip from the bottle,
so these nerve agent was not inside of a
bottle.
But on the bottle
novichok is a
Highly toxic nerve agent said to be 10 times
more potent than sarin gas,
labs and France and Sweden corroborated.
The finding
there's no doubt, it was military-grade novichok,
it's maybe it's the most toxic
agents
invented by the
humans.
So it's new type of no chalk
which proved that.
Unfortunately, Putin
have a developing new program of these chemical weapon
which is forbidden The Rush.
Fans have said that, they destroyed
all these chemical weapons.
That's why I actually they deny everything because it
means that they still have this Navy chalk.
So it means they are not just violating with
the keeping it.
They are
continue to improve it
and there's no doubt that Russia
is the only place that where that could have
come from.
This is absolutely correct.
It's a banned substance.
It's a benefit options.
I think for Putin.
Why
his using this
Chemical weapon
to do.
Do both
kill me
and you know, terrify others.
It's something really scary with the people just drop
that without there are no gun.
There are no shots.
And in a couple of hours,
you will be dead.
And without any traces, on your body.
It's something terrifying.
And Putin is enjoying it.
You have said, you think
that
mr.
Putin's responsible.
I don't think.
I'm sure that he is responsible.
Putin's spokesman Dmitry peskov says, the charge is completely
baseless and unacceptable
but Angela Merkel of Germany and Emmanuel.
Macron of France,
have persuaded the European Union to impose sanctions over
this.
Well, all these leaders have signed on
except Donald Trump.
As I have noticed it,
is it important to you
that? He
condemn this action.
So
I think it's
extremely important.
Wasn't
that everyone
of course including and maybe in the first row,
president of United States
to be very against using chemical weapon
in the 21 century when you apart.
But why would Putin want to poison Alexei navalny?
When we first met navalny? Three years ago
he was running against Putin for president.
He had made a name for himself by getting
his hands on incriminating internal financial documents related to
high.
I level officials and posting them on a Blog.
Did these
documents that you got proved corruption?
Absolutely.
I work as a whistleblower and I'm not afraid
to
announce the names.
He says, he found that the kremlin's Inner Circle
was accumulating vast amounts of wealth and published pictures
of multiple homes and Yachts.
He moved on to airing documentaries on YouTube with
video of the officials lavish lifestyle
and it's
It's something very special about mr.
Putin
that he is crazy about money,
personal money about his family being rich, his friends
like
all his people who always served him with him
with him
in the KGB.
All of them, they are billionaires.
That's why
fighting corruption
means for him.
That he's fighting me.
You know, I'm smiling.
Because here you are.
You have survived the most potent nerve agent there
is
and you
Are as fiery
and worked up about your
about Putin and what's going on in this country
as you were when I met you a couple
of years ago.
Well I'm
glad
I'm glad that I've survived and his blog and
Flames so much outrage in 2017.
The tens of thousands of Russians took to the
streets against Putin
when navalny called for a second round of protests.
Three months later,
he was arrested before he even left his apartment
building.
He's been jailed so many times.
He's lost count.
He's been beaten.
Had green dye with acid splashed in his face
and now he can add poisoning to his resume
and blame President Putin's.
How can you say that? Why wouldn't it be
one of the oligarchs whom you've embarrassed
by? As you say exposing their corruption, even for
oligarchy.
It's impossible to get this nabhi chakra.
It's not something you can buy in the store
even if you have a million of the billions
of
Dollars,
maybe more important, you cannot use it, you will
kill yourself and everyone around
because
it's very difficult to
you know,
Caroline it.
Yes.
And
then
these huge cover-up operation.
There is no criminal investigation so far.
If if Putin is not responsible,
why
there is no investigation
and
look what they're doing right now.
Like
Putin with
conversation with the French President macron.
He said
well,
Alma Valley poisoned himself.
Seriously.
Mr.
Putin
told the president of France that you poisoned yourself.
It was just to you know annoy him
Putin is contending with rounds of protests in the
Far Eastern part of the country
with people taking to the streets for the past
three months.
Navalny thinks the attempt on his life is connected
despite his controlling police
judges, courts, media and everything,
still his
Like
he understands that he is surrounded by protests in
its increasing.
So that's why his
they decided to,
you know, except for Extreme Measures.
This is what it looked like, just a month
ago
soon after his doctors brought him out of an
induced, coma
rail-thin
with a sickly pallor.
This photo was taken the first day.
He saw his children
after being taken off a ventilator.
So you were in a coma
and then you woke up.
And what happened
after this coma? I just jumped to their
long period of
kind of crazy.
Hallucinations and several, you know,
steps of
realizing where I am, who I am.
And
I
could not speak
and I could not write
how has this affected your family?
Well, it was, it was a difficult situation but
they stand it and
great children
because children
Your
son is 12 and your daughter is in college,
right?
Those are tough edges to realize that your father
came close to being assassinated.
Did they say
to you,
pop dad,
you have to stop.
Absolutely not.
No
absolutely not my, I
am very lucky man because I have
all support from my family.
You'd almost have to
at this point,
navalny, his wife, his bodyguard.
And I went out for a walk in front
of the Brandenburg, gate in Berlin
and a
A length of police showed up.
So you certainly
travel with a lot of protection.
Yes, I have a lot of security.
He's under the protection of the German government
because there's concern, he could be the target of
another poisoning.
And yet he said he's determined to return to
Moscow and a couple of months
as soon as he's a hundred percent
and resumed his work where he left off
campaigning against Vladimir Putin.
You know you're used to be known as the
man.
Man, who had no fear,
but what about your family?
Do you ever think
that you were
putting them in danger?
That is a toughest part.
Yes, I don't feel any fear.
But children,
what is the kind of really
horrible thought
if they will try to use this Navy, chalk,
somewhere around my apartment and where my children is
coming, like, you know, this
door or something,
but everyone can touch it.
But
anyway, we should fight these people because they will
never stop.
They will poison someone else.
They will poison
more people.
Well, how do you
Feel now,
are you back?
Totally back.
You seem to be.
I
still need some time to recover
and I'm working on it.
But you do go to rehab
to go every day.
Yes,
to learn from the Screech, how to how to
move, how to D? Something's there,
interesting that
I feel kind of a bitter wooden
or teen man, like from The
Wizard of Oz
because they budget lost all flexibility at all.
Interesting, how it's work.
I have no idea.
It's it now it's
difficult movies for me, for example, pick something from
the ground.
What about the psychological
effect
of having
knowing that
somebody tried to kill you
came that close
you know
I think it's a
it's a good thing.
It's a very useful for politician
may be facing that
once
because it's changed you a bit.
So maybe ironically, I became kind of more human
after these facing that
the Biden administration's National Security.
Advisor, Jake Sullivan on CNN last Sunday,
warned, the Kremlin of consequences
if Alexei navalny dies in custody.
A new message from Alexei navalny wife Yulia.
See it
only at 60 Minutes over time.com.
Giving new zest to the terms showstopper the pandemic.
Sure did a number
on the Performing Arts
in just when we needed them, most
live music, dance and theater, help us to process
Collective trauma to make sense of loss and fear.
But the same intimacy and shared experience that make
the Performing Arts.
So special
have made them singularly awful for covid times.
There is an economic toll to putting the Performing
Arts on mute,
especially in New York where they bring in billions
and we're
Way, alone sells more tickets
than all, the cities pro, sports teams combined,
but what about the loss in value, that can't
be measured
as Show Business reimagines.
Its role, Post covid in the city that never
sleeps.
We consulted three dazzling talents at the top of
their games, doing their best to improvise.
Meet Aya, Delhi Cassell.
Originally from the Bronx, she's danced her way.
Onto the biggest stages in the world.
Here she is at New York's, Joyce Theater.
Performing for an online audience.
Tap dancing is to me
a
genius
musical
way of moving one's feet and body.
It's expression.
Its Joy,
its resistance.
I think it's magical.
What's it like without an audience? And how does
that
compare to the real thing?
Well it doesn't compare to the real thing.
Next allow us to introduce Anthony Roth Costanza
a countertenor whose Talent is matched by his range
up until the pandemic.
He was starring in the Metropolitan Opera sold out
production
of Akhenaten.
I was biking by the met the other day
and I
Stopped my bike,
and I close my eyes.
And I thought,
what does it smell like
on that stage? What does it feel like? Can
you remember?
It is such an incredible
feeling
stepping onto the stage of the Met
looking out at 3,800 people.
And finally,
ladies and gentlemen.
Nathan Lane,
we ask the veteran Broadway actor, how he stayed
limber during the pandemic.
I haven't, I'm a line like everyone.
I'm sitting home watching.
Watching, Netflix, watching money Heist.
I thinking.
Wow,
it's so Spanish,
everyone.
It's like a telenovela during a Big Heist, it's
crazy, but it's so
addictive.
I love Netflix, but,
you know, enough is enough
and
we've missed that connection.
It's about connection, the human connection
that connection between performer and audience.
Stop cold here.
Last March 12th
back, when covid-19 still in act one and it
hasn't resume those Neon Lights On Broadway.
Still out practice.
All you want.
You can't get to Carnegie Hall for more than
a year.
Now, there's been no business in Show Business.
Devastating to the nearly 100,000 New Yorkers who make
their living this way on stage back stage in
front of house
Adam.
Krauthammer heads, the city's you
Union of 7,000, musicians,
what's the unemployment rate?
Among your members right now?
So, right now, it's 95% unemployment, 95% unemployment,
I think for people who work in the Arts,
we were worried
that we were losing jobs, right? But, my fear
is that we were losing careers.
Did you see that firsthand?
I've had members sell their homes.
I've had members cell instruments.
There is precedent for
Being artists in times of Crisis,
coming out of the Great Depression, part of the
New Deal, funded projects in Music, Theater and art.
In this crisis performers, have largely had to go
It Alone.
This in an industry not exactly known for a
stable business model.
Even in the best of times, the show, won't
break, even and less audiences fill at least 80%
of the seats.
How many performances have canceled for you since the
start of covid, I would say at least a
hundred, if
Not a hundred and fifty.
I mean the check stopped
and
you you saw
quite a stark contrast between
selling out in a title role at the Met
and being on unemployment just a matter of months
later.
I Adelie Castle.
Also, worried her career with lose momentum,
permanently
What happened
silence happened
actually worse than silence.
It was the
phone call saying you know, we're canceling, we're canceling,
we're canceling,
this is income to, I'm guessing
this is
30 35 40 45 thousand dollars getting cancelled.
You know that might not be a lot for
other folks but like for an artist that's a
lot of money to go out the window.
And it almost took me down.
I for quick second thought.
Maybe I've had a good run,
you went to that spot.
So I went to the, oh yeah, there was
like a good month or two where I was
just like, I think seriously considering not not doing
this in this way anymore, and just when I
thought that I get the call for, you know,
to do New York, pops up a creative plan
for the creative class, New York pops up the
state program back by six million dollars is a
Sort of cultural Band-Aid
aimed at reminding the public about the importance
and joy of live art,
like a pop-up store.
The Arts version is temporary
mobile and socially distant
with an Eclectic mix of performers emerging in unlikely
places.
The sanitize setting for opening day, in February
Manhattan's big convention facility.
The thank you to those overseeing vaccinations.
It was surreal, I'm not gonna lie, it was
so surreal
because when I,
it's like, I remember when I
stepped on stage,
There was that moment of like, you know
Applause I'm so happy
to share my heart in my heart with you.
There is there's nothing like it.
I just felt like oh
we're back.
You know, just like that.
After the Stage Show, Jon Batiste musician and bandleader
of cbs's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Pied, Piper the ragtag troupe through the streets of
Brooklyn.
You have this delicate instrument
and then you've got a
full horn, rendering it,
we're over being precious with opera or even these
instruments.
I think it's about
now.
It's about the kind of fervor
that exists and
after all opera singing is just glorified screaming.
So,
My people in March, I had Ellie Cassell got
some rehearsal time with fellow dancers,
albeit in The Frigid garage of her New Jersey
home.
I hadn't seen my friends and so long, I
could cry thinking about it,
but, um,
I think I underestimated,
you know
how much I missed them, you know, because
we will stay in touch over the phone, but
it's one thing to then
be in the same space.
That
was a really inspiring to me.
That was awesome.
She took the show on the road with New
York pops up and went back to her old
stomping grounds in the Bronx.
As well as Brooklyn and Queens
turning up in museum, lobbies
to the Happy surprise of visitors.
Since then New York has loosened some restrictions on
live performance
audiences of up to a hundred fifty people can.
Now gather indoors
and cultural institutions are trying to figure out how
to make this work.
We were there when the New York Philharmonic was
reunited for the first time in a year with
its conductor jaap van Sweden,
a smaller Orchestra, socially distance and masked rehearsed for
a virtual concert
being a musician is not
with all respect.
It's not a job.
It is something
you live for whole you life
and
if that is Ben,
Taken away,
that is not easy for us.
And so we are extremely happy that we can
be back
on stage,
but pop-ups and streaming gigs or baby steps.
Back to work
for only a fraction of New York's performing artists.
The larger question looms,
when can theaters safely pack them in again?
Then you can head on inside.
Thank you
in early, April, the venerable st.
James Theater was the site of Broadway, soft reopen
the audience proof of negative covid.
Tests required set apart yet.
Together one day only,
I know Cabin Fever covid, brain, whatever.
But to watch Nathan Lane on a Bare Bones
set, he performed a monologue about fittingly a theater
lover Exile from Broadway.
I go on everything.
A website and defend every version of Merrily, We
Roll Along.
Because at least it's an attempt
with their special protocol.
You had to go through as a performer today.
Special covid protocol.
Yes, they hosed me down the I've been tested.
I've been tested so many times
were there moments today when you were up there
and you sort of said, you know what this?
All right?
No.
I was
I'll tell you, honestly, I was like terrified
why? Well, because there wasn't any real rehearsal, there
was it first performance to the app you catch
me tomorrow night.
Do you want to come by the house?
I'll try to get
in her lost year.
I had to like his cell,
like so many artists has been thinking, about not,
just how to bounce back.
But about how to Lunge forward,
I would like to see
what gets presented
from here, on end to reflect what
artist look like out in the world that they
are more black people, and more
Latino people, and more Asian people being represented
creatively,
not just on stage but
It just everywhere around and behind and in front
and in back just all over
Anthony.
Ross costanzo has used his quiet period to make
an album
a style mash up with Cabaret singer.
Justin Vivian Bond,
and it's also got him thinking.
He may not want to go back to the
way.
Things were
we've decimated the Arts
and we have an opportunity
to rebuild them.
Open doors, literally,
literally,
and not only
Wars to rebuild the doorway
and install a new door.
Specifically, what are we talking about? Let's reinvent the
concert going ritual.
Let's put it on a pickup truck and take
it places.
Go out of the concert hall out of the
Opera House
and create new experiences.
Shut Scott.
Rooted as Broadway, Fashions.
It's restaging.
There's already been a spasm of well
drama
on Thursday, the theater Community.
Rallied to demand accountability.
They targeted.
Producer Scott, Rudin
a Broadway, Mogul
and force behind New York pops up
who announced he was stepping back after reports of
abusive behavior
in a theater,
but the show must, of course, go on
and Nathan Lane has one small, note,
anything.
You'd like to see
not come back,
cats
cats, we don't need cash
enough with cats,
they revived it
with.
We, you know, we get the idea cats
cats notwithstanding Broadway
in New York's main stages are heading for a
fall reopening.
There's no precise date on the calendar
and shows will need time to ramp up.
There will be some light bulbs to change in
some sets to dust off
and perhaps a new appreciation,
not just for the dollars and cents.
But for the spiritual value in the Performing Arts,
it's more than just
a night out.
It's a
you know it's what the character says in the
piece.
I love theater.
I can't explain it it's just when I have
tickets to a show, it lifts my whole day,
it's like a date
with someone who might be wonderful.
Oh might be boring
or my change
my life forever,
you know?
I know.
So what
I thought that for sure, was the end of
the interview, didn't you
didn't? I didn't, I give him like the best
ending to this thing.
Next Sunday on 60 Minutes,
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writer.
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about the doctors and scientists
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and ultimately futile attempts to sound the alarm.
I'm Leslie Stahl will be back next week with
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