Watch the ten videos below that were the most viewed in 2025 of those that I’ve posted on my YouTube channel ,and/or this blog, arranged in order of popularity. The majority were created in 2025, but there’s a catch: Four are shorts (one is 13 seconds long). Most are from Broadway shows, but one of the most popular was about a film adaptation of a Broadway show and another a wordless performance by a popular comedian at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
I add to the most popular my personal favorite from 2025.
Shy from “Once Upon a Mattress”
From Jan 25, 2024. Sutton Foster as Princess Winnifred the Woebegon sings “Shy” at the Encores revival of “Once Upon A Mattress” Check out https://newyorktheater.me/2024/01/25/…
From the comments: “The video barely begins to capture the incredible non-stop playfulness and fun that Sutton Foster brought to this number — it was one of those great Encores moments.”
Stranger Things: The First Shadow
From April 26, 2025: Forty seconds from the Broadway play, based on the Netflix TV series. Click https://newyorktheater.me/2025/04/26/… for photos and review
Moulin Rouge on Broadway in 98 seconds
From July 25, 2019: A glimpse of the Broadway musical Moulin Rouge, adapted from the 2001 movie, combining four brief trailers, labeled freedom, truth, beauty and love. Click https://newyorktheater.me/2019/07/25/… for photographs and more videos.
From the (more than 100) comments: “….I’ve grown up watching the film and it’s one of my favorites, so to see such a fantastic homage to the film was truly an incredible experience.”
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ken Burns on the American Revolution
From November 13, 2025. Ken Burns and Lin-Manuel Miranda met with four hundred public school students in Trinity Church, where Alexander Hamilton was a member of the congregation and is buried in its churchyard. Burns showed the students a brief clip from his six-part, 12-hour series “The American Revolution,” and Miranda watched students perform original history raps. The two storytellers answered students’ questions, complimented and complemented one another, talked Revolution and immigrants..
Tape Face #Ed Fringe
From August 3, 2025
Anastasia Once Upon A December
From April 25, 2017. Christy Altomare sings “Once Upon a December” from the Broadway musical Anastasia https://newyorktheater.me/2017/04/24/… More photos from the show
From the (hundreds of) comments: “I love everything about this scene- the actors are obviously AMAZING but I’m gonna take a sec to appreciate the lighting designers and costume designers!! Seriously, it looks INCREDIBLE. Also, for the actors, on top of their obvious talent I respect them VERY MUCH for wearing those costumes. Under stage lights, they must be BOILING.”
I Kissed A Boy From &Juliet at Broadway in Bryant Park
From July 11, 2025
Wicked director John Chu and casting director Tiffany Little Canfield
From November 20, 2025: Why they cast Ariana and Cynthia
You and Me but Mostly Me from the Book of Mormon
From July 17, 2025
Jake Gyllenhaal Sings Across The Way
From May 11, 2020. As part of the 24 Hour Plays’ Viral Monololgues, Jake Gyllenhall performs “Across the Way,” an original musical piece — a love story from 60 feet away — written especially for him by Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire.
From the (more than 100) comments: “Im lying in bed at 2am and this made my eyes tear up! His voice is so beautiful and so is he, what a sweet song about lockdown, I’ve melted”
More From 2025
Gracie Lawrence sings Connie Francis
From July 17, 2025: Gracie Lawrence sings Connie FrancisAt Broadway in Bryant Park Gracie Lawrence sings “Who’s Sorry Now,” the signature song of Connie Francis, who died yesterday at the age of 87. Lawrence is portraying Francis in the Broadway musical “Just in Time,” about Bobby Darin, because they were first loves. “I would implore all of you to go and listen to the real thing after,” Lawrence told the audience, “and you’ll hear resilience and character and personality and humor and tenderness and strength.”,
