just to make you smile today!! (and we can all use a smile)

[Mari333]

I dont care who promoted this, it makes me smile hugely...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq6b9bMBXpg

[yy4me]

1. Fantastic! Not only well done but the spontaneity of the

onlookers was great. I saw many jump right in. How nice to be so happy. Wish that sort of thing would happen here!

Well, I suppose you'd have to have a permit, be checked by security and all the rest of that bull.

There is little fun like this anymore, I wish I had been there.

[leftstreet]

4. If that happened here we'd all get tear-gassed and tazed

Cool video!

:thumbsup:

[EnviroBat]

38. Hahaha! I was just thinking the same thing...

"Antwerp police savagely beat a large group of dancer, er , um , PROTESTERS who are all suspected of TERRORISM..."

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. That was simply .........

WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!

Thank you............

[angstlessk]

3. Mari I seldom click on blind links, but I trust you..THANK YOU FOR THAT!

I don't know why, but it made me cry...thinking some people do things just for the simple reason of entertaining others...that is great. Like the 'statues' in Grand Central

[Mari333]

9. made me cry also

maybe its just seeing people at their BEST....and its such a rare thing...:)
:hug:

[JimGinPA]

14. That Was Entertaining

K&R

[leftstreet]

5. K&R

Awesome!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

6. That was pure fun!

Something we all need more of in our lives. Thank you for sharing! :)

[Demoiselle]

7. I loved watching the commuters' faces...

They had that distracted, slightly stressed look...and then slowly, their eyes light up and they smile.
Lovely and human. (And The Sound of Music may very well be my least favorite musical!)

[sagetea]

8. That was bloody brilliant!!!

Thank you so much, I needed that!!!

[MorningGlow]

10. WOW

I LOVE this sort of stuff. What a great thing to do!

I think I've mentioned this on DU before, but my friends and I did something a little like that in London. We were walking down a long corridor in the Tube. There were buskers up ahead, around a curve--we couldn't see them, but we could hear their really great rockabilly-type song. The music was so infectious that as we walked, we started dancing. I mean REALLY dancing--all over the corridor. When we came around the bend and the buskers saw 10 American kids dancing wildly to their music, they were so shocked they lost their beat! But they recovered and kept playing, so we danced and dropped some money in their guitar cases, and we danced on down the corridor. That was one of my favorite memories of my entire month in London. I wonder if the musicians remember us... :)

IMO we need more happy craziness in the world...

[Mari333]

11. YES we DO!nt

[CTyankee]

34. Years ago I was in Grand Central Station one early evening in mid December to catch

a train when the Yale Men's Chorus quickly assembled on the Lex Ave side steps overlooking the main area and started singing Christmas carols. They had been in NYC to perform and were awaiting their train back to New Haven.

It was one of my lovliest memories...

[MorningGlow]

36. Nice!

That must have been magical. :hi:

[CTyankee]

37. It was. Grand Central Station has always held a lot of fascination for me.

And that particular weekend was a romantic getaway for me, so it was especially nice...

[Kind of Blue]

12. Mari333, You've made my day!

Thanks very much :)

[BlueJazz]

13. That's just absolutely Wonderful.!! Joy and Happiness

:) :) :)

[uppityperson]

15. Thank you, I saw a vid of another one of these recently, nice to see another one.

[The Doctor.]

16. Just when I was getting ready to give up on humanity and let it perish...

Damn lovely.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

17. Obviously, the poor Belgians don't have an effective Department of Homeland Security.

Can you imagine this taking place at Grand Central Station?

[BelgianMadCow]

40. hehehe :D no we don't, this is effective advertising for an "idol" type program called

"looking for maria" - a reality show looking for someone that can play the Maria role in a rendering of The Sound of Music.

I'm glad belgium gets positive rep for this on DU though :-)

[progressoid]

18. The behind the scene video is fun too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRNNhR6qii8

especially watching the kids - they are so happy!

[tblue37]

19. It's cool, but it's not spontaneous. It was a commercial.

T-Mobile; Liverpool Street Station.

[progressoid]

21. Antwerp, Belgium

[tblue37]

22. The one I saw was Liverpool. Perhaps they produced

different events in different cities.

[Lex]

20. Completely staged. A commercial by T-mobile.

But still cool to watch.

[MiniMe]

23. Here is a link from the one in Liverpool

Very cool viral videos by TMobile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ3d3KigPQM&feature=channel

[memory]

24. Promotion for a tv show in Belgium

Thank you for posting this! It is just wonderful and make the theater geek in me cry. :loveya:

This happened on March 23 to promote the premiere of the show on March 25 on Belgium VTM. It is a reality talent competition to search for a performer to play Maria in a revival of the Sound of Music.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op_zoek_naar_Mari

[BigBearJohn]

25. Thanks for posting this. Nice to know I'm not the only one love this stuff.

[JNelson6563]

26. BRAVO!!!

Great way to kick off my day, many thanks dear! :hi:

Julie

[hootinholler]

27. OH, GREAT! Now that damned song will be running throught my brain all day!

:sarcasm:

How do you solve a problem like Maria?

;)
-Hoot

[Fire1]

28. I actually clapped out loud!!! Thank you for my smile!

K&R:applause:

[kiva]

29. Thanks, Mari--a morning smile. NT

[bdamomma]

30. oh that was great, can you see something like that happening

in Grand Central Station!!!! but we do not have the balls to do something like that.

[CTyankee]

35. Something kinda similar did once when i was there. See my post upthread. n/t

[bdamomma]

31. kick

[Jim__]

32. That was great! Thanks!

[SammyWinstonJack]

33. Very cool!

[Canuckistanian]

39. That's cool, they're good dancers

Thanks for posting.

[MissMarple]

41. How charming. And my dog started gathering up his squeaky toys to play with to the music.

Too funny. He liked the singing, too.