“Saturday Night Seder” is unlike most of its competitors in the Emmys’ outstanding variety special (pre-recorded) category. For one thing, it’s not a standup special. But it…
Specials in the time of COVID-19 have become increasingly common as the months have progressed, but “Saturday Night Seder” came just a few weeks into the pandemic’s stay-at-home orders.newsletter spoke to co-writer and executive producer Benj Pasek about how he and his partners managed to turn things such as Zoom, Dropbox, Streamyard and color-coded Google Sheets into a special seen by millions.
Pasek: We decided very early on that we wanted to do something that would have impact and benefit the fight against the epidemic that was happening in real time. I remember being terrified when we even began to reach out to people of note, because the ‘Imagine’ video had just happened and there was such a backlash. We were like, ‘should we even be asking people to be in anything right now? Is that okay?’ It just continued to snowball from there. We made up it up as we went.
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