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Reboot Ideas: Behind the Scenes with Creators of Saturday Night Seder

March 14, 2021

Saturday Night Seder premiered to an audience of more than 1 million viewers, and has raised more than $3.5 million for the CDC Foundation’s Coronavirus Emergency Response Fund. Rooted in tradition but rewritten to include comedy, music, and sketches, Saturday Night Seder was a grassroots effort put together at the start of the pandemic by a small team working remotely around the country, including Benj Pasek, Adam Kantor, Jen Snow, Alex Edelman and Michael Mitnick.
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Benj Pasek

Reboot Board Member

Benj Pasek is an Oscar, Grammy, Tony, and Golden Globe Award-winning songwriter and New York Times Best-Selling Author. He is best known for his work on Dear Evan Hansen, La La Land, and The Greatest Showman. Other credits include: A Christmas Story, The Musical; Dogfight, James and the Giant Peach, Edges, Aladdin, Trolls, Smash, The Flash, and A Christmas Story, Live!

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Saturday Night Seder: A Streaming Passover Seder

Saturday Night Seder premiered to an audience of more than 1 million viewers, and has raised more than $3.5 million for the CDC Foundation’s Coronavirus Emergency Response Fund. Rooted in tradition but rewritten to include comedy, music, and sketches, Saturday Night Seder was a grassroots effort put together at the start of the pandemic by a small team working remotely around the country. The stacked lineup in the Seder included: Dan Levy, Ilana Glazer, Nick Kroll, Idina Menzel, Ben Platt and many, many more.

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Reboot Ideas Presents: Plastover

Reboot hosted Jonathan Bines, social change consultant Jessy Tolkan and Plastic Pollution Coalition CEO and Co-Founder Dianna Cohen for a conversation that leverages Passover’s power of symbology and transformation to use plastic to spark a sustained climate intervention.

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Reboot Ideas: Liberation Through Music

A special Passover live music event featuring: Nicki Bluhm, Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi All-Stars), Jeremiah Lockwood (The Sway Machinery) & Zack Rogue (Rogue Wave). The four came together to record this moving version of Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released” that fits so perfectly in this moment