The Look - Now United's The Musical: Welcome to the Night of Your Life

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BY DC CUEVA 

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Music is no doubt among my biggest personal passions (one of the big four in fact -- alongside sports, MTV reality shows and Las Vegas)... and if you just glimpse into the many playlists of what's playing in my plugs offers a good idea of how diverse a music fan I am. Whether it's the album Meteora by a band I was lucky enough to meet two decades ago in Linkin Park, another artist I discovered before most Americans in first hearing about the Backstreet Boys while spending Christmas overseas, or those hundreds of songs that are topping the charts and even beyond that... music has helped me through both the good and bad times in my life, and through my each and every single day too.

The year that shall not be named of a few years back saw me discover what's become a current favorite of the DC Playlist during these times, and molded together music with something I know well as a sports fan who loves watching relatively obscure events happening outside this country as much as those here at home. That would be the idea of different nations coming together in one big music supergroup just as they do at the Olympics and the World Cup: different singers and dancers from the world's six continents into the global pop collective Now United. Though they're not as big as other acts in this country as they are in others -- and despite me being right up there in age and where its target audience is those the age of my niece & nephew, I can still have them as one of my favorites.

Two years ago, Now United were the subjects of an introductory post and a follow-up... it was caused by them calling home for a week the same house used in one of the many MTV shows I've blogged on here the past decade (I'd normally cover that world of trashy guilty pleasure entertainment on a regular basis on this site) to film one of their many music videos. But last fall saw the end of their first generation when the group in its original formation went on one final tour together and released a last set of songs & videos before most of them began pursuing solo endeavors after five unforgettable years traveling the globe and offering inspiration to a world that has been in need of some feel-good moments when we have had to go through so much during a tumultuous period we've just been through.

And to close it all out, there was something very special that brought this well-traveled group of artists from different nations of the world's six continents to a global melting pot in a concrete jungle in the American Northeast. There, they turned their attention to fulfilling one of the greatest dreams that there is in the world: the opportunity to grace the greatest stage of all -- center stage of a Broadway musical.