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12 Oct, 8 tweets, 3 min read
A show managed to sell more than 6,000 tickets for a single evening on Zoom 😮😮😮

How was it done? You could say, it was magic! 🪄
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The show, called “The Present," was organized by @GeffenPlayhouse.

It features magician Helder Guimarães who performs jaw-dropping tricks. It has been very popular!
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The show manages to erase the social distance that has defined many people’s experience of the world

Famous faces have been logging on, including Laura Dern, Mark Hamill, Patton Oswalt, Billy Crystal and Laurie Metcalf. latimes.com/entertainment-…
Tickets for “The Present” have been sold for $125 per household.

The best part? That would be the total amount of money the performances were able to bring in:
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What makes the show Guimarães puts on so special? The key to his magic is interactivity:
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The show demonstrates one of the few upsides to the pandemic: online audiences hungry for entertainment.

Here's how the theater community are trying to capitalize on the crowd latimes.com/entertainment-…
What will theater look like in the future? We asked top experts latimes.com/entertainment-…
COVID-19 brought theater to a stop, but it also started something. Leaders of small companies have been gathering weekly online latimes.com/entertainment-…

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Want to hear an oddly adorable sound? Check out these black bear cubs eating a pile of apples.

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