and nathan lane has one small note. anything you'd like to see not come back? >> lane: "cats."theim: "cats" notwithstanding, broadway, and new york's main stages, are heading for a fall reopening. there's n precise date on the calendar, and shows will need time to ramp up. there will be some light bulbs to change, and some sets to dust off, and perhaps a new appreciation-- not just for the dollars and cents, but for the spiritual value in the performing arts. >> lane: it's more than just a night out. ( laughs ) it's-- you know, it's what the character says in the piece. i love theater. i can't explain it. it's just, when i have tickets to a show, it lifts my whole day. it's like a date with someone who might be wonderful. or might be boring. or might change my life forever. you know? i know. >> wertheim: so what's... >> lane: i thought for sure that was the end of the interview. didn't you? >> wertheim: no, one more... >> lane: didn't i-- didn't i give him, like, the best ending to this thing? ( laughs ) ( ticking ) >> cbs sports, hq is presented by progressive insurance. here

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. >> it's hugh jackman >> reporter: followed by actor nathan lane performing a monologue. >> how didt feel what was it like out there? >> well, it was very emotional. >> that was long overdue. it was beautiful >> reporter: 150 fans, all of them vaccinated or tested, were scattered throughout the auditorium >> they were socially distanced and masked which is always conducive to comedy. >> reporter: but lane could still hear their laughs it was part of the new york pops up festival, a series of pop-up performances the st. james show was the first on a broadway stage since the shutdown though it lasted just 36 minutes, every moment was savored by broadway lover francesca toscano. >> when the lights went down you heard people sigh. there was like a relief to finally be back >> reporter: full-scale shows likely won't return till fall. but this proves broadway is getting ready to shimmer again. joe fryer, nbc news. >> nice to see the lights flickering back on on broadway that's "nightly news" for this monday. thank you for watching, everyone i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself an

the tony award winning dancer savion glover, who tapped out a tribute to frontline workers and nathan lane. performed a new monologue entitled playbills. it was written specifically for the occasion. thean vitae shin only event was the first of 10, which will play in broadway's theaters. over the next 10 weeks, all right, kind of a cool couple days around here after a very warm week, with record high temperatures today. he's in the numbers and they were pretty mild. 68 antioch 68 in fairfield. certainly no records. yesterday's very similar. nice day, not as warm as that had been, and if you look at the coastal sections like pacifica happened, upper fifties low sixties so more typical. spring pattern. if you will than what we saw last week, which was full of warmth s o the plan here as we go forward is to get a graphic in here that we can use. sorry about that. you gotta hear this. okay, so waiting for the rain. it's going to be drive for a while. we're basically looking at a situation where we are not going to see rain for a long time. and with that in mind, we are going to be, um, drive a

we're down here because earlier today two broadway stars, sabian glover and nathan lane did a quick event, the fist time seeing people inside of a broadway theater. it is not opiate, not expected until september, but a few people able to go in, sit down, enjoy that, a big sign that maybe normalcies are around the corner. >> dr. anthony fauci spoke with cnn earlier saying now isn't the time for people to let down their guards. >> what we're seeing after that big peak that we had when it started to come down it plateaued at a disturbingly high level of number of cases per day. when you plateau and you start to inch up as we're doing, in a few of the states, several of the states, there is a danger of having a resurgence and another big surge up. just yesterday we had over 60,000 new cases in a day. that's disturbing and what happened in europe, and what is happening in europe for the most part is going through another disturbing surge. is we're not out of the woods yet, to don't prematurely declare victory. the good news is what you mentioned a moment ago. we're getting three to four, now t

nathan lane, thank you very much for being with us today. we really do appreciate it. >> sure. >>> that does it for us this morning. thank you very much for watching. we greatly appreciate it. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. ♪♪ >>> hi, there, i'm stephanie ruhle. it's monday, april 5th. this morning the trial of derek chauvin will resume for day six of testimony. all eyes on one single witness. in a rare move, the minneapolis police chief expected to take the stand for the prosecution, who will be the third member of the department to testify against one of his own. this comes after the longest-serving officer in the department, richard zimmerman, said on friday that chauvin's actions were, quote, totally unnecessary. another witness we are watching out for as the trial heads into week two, hen amin county medical examiner dr. andrew baker, who performed floyd's autopsy, is expected to testify in the next few days >>> i want to bring in this morning nbc's shaquille brewster. he's in minneapolis. he's been covering this trial

and this monologue was imagining -- nathan lane plays a theater addict to imagines meeting hugh jackmanrtment and imagines what he would say. >> when they come back, the demand will be off the charts. >> they'll have to pave a new street -- >> you're right. peach are itching to get back to the shows. >>> all right. 22 mummies, you heard that right, 22 mummies, the royal treatment. that's what they got when they were taken to a new home in egypt. the remains of 18 pharaohs and four queens were driven through cairo in the pharaoh's parade to the national museum of civilization. the capsules were climate controlled. security was tight. 20 of the mummies will will go on display in the museum. the other two will go into storage. look at that video. there is like -- >> crazy. >> yeah. >> it does look like something from a brendan frazier movie from my youth. >> "the mummy." >> and "the mummy returns." >> mummies are held in high regard. i always wanted to go to egypt. >> part of an attempt to reinvigorate tourism in egypt. one on display was ramses ii. he was the pharaoh that ultimately when

because, earlier today, two holly -- two broadway stars glover and nathan lane did a quick event for frontline workers and broadway people. just showing the first time you ever seen people inside a broadway theater since march 12th, 2020, when broadway closed. broadway is not open, yet. it's not expected until september. but assigned day a few people could go into a theater, sit down, and enjoy that. just a big, big sign in new york that, maybe, normalcy is around the corner if people keep getting vaccines and sticking by the rules. >> evan mcmorris-santoro reporting there. other parts of the world, meanwhile, seeing worrying stieks in infections even as vaccine rollouts gain some momentum. it is a mixed bag in europe, as you can see right there. with, both, upward and downward trends and much of the continent holding steady. the uk reporting just ten deaths, on saturday. that is the lowest daily-death toll, since last september. lots of young people in belgium, though, clearly, have lockdown fatigue. hundreds of them, gathering in a brussels park, friday, until police dispersed them

performance and valving just 2 stars 150 masts and socially distance audience members watch dr nathan lane and world renowned tap dancer savion glover the event brings hope of more shows to come for years communities in gone as far northern region have been banishing people they are practicing witchcraft neighboring region set up camps to help those who've been forced out but as i reports from gun battle there's concern now because of coronavirus even more people are being sent away the current policy is blind and his health is failing he wants to go home to live on his final decent but not so mighty to happen. he was banished from his village years ago by those who once called his family on us friends and they want to take him back a boy died in the killing of a chicken and they accused me of killing him by witchcraft they chased me out of the community and i ended up here many people in this camp have similar stories now at least 6 so-called which comes likeness in often gonna pass on people who are accused of witchcraft and chased from their homes. all gallows but in the way this is a t

involving just 2 stars one $150.00 masked and socially distanced audience members watched actor nathan lane and wilder announced tapped on society and lover the event brings hope of what shows to come. now the u.s. envoy for climate john kerry says he hopes to work with china to tackle climate change kerry is in abu dhabi for talks on what's happening in the middle east and north africa he says nations need to narrow their differences to slow global warming the meeting comes ahead of the un climate summit in scotland in november where leaders are expected to build on the 2015 paris accord. the well we want to do is be helpful not here to tell anybody what to do we're here to try to talk through a problem we all share and find a common way to address the recognizing that countries just can't shut down anymore that we didn't. you can't shut down you've got to continue to try to provide a revenue base keep your people employed have stability so you've got to transition in a way that makes sense. and has warned that time is running out to slow climate change saying this upcoming summit in scotl

. >>> on the cbs podcast, three-time tony winner nathan lane. we'll be right back.. ♪ >>> before we go, a special videoessa m that tyler perry just sent me. he sent it to me because i begged him to do so. i was talking to him last week. he was saying this weekend he was going to offer covid vaccinations to everybody that works at tyler perry studios this past weekend. this is how it went. ♪ >> good morning, gayle. we're at tyler perry studios for the first vaccine event. pretty successful. i'm glad that at least 55% of my crew are getting it. so we set it up, we get a cheer and everything, people are excited to have it. it's my hope that people will will just get out and get the vaccine and know that i have it and other members of my staff have it. we have no issues no problems. i've had it since january. that's my hope. god bless you guys. thank you. >> no, thank you, tyler perry. remember, we did stories on his very strict covid protocol. >> that's right. >> where he had everybody quarantined before they started shooting and daily covid testing. he's taking it ver

more than a year after shutting down after nathan lane and world renowned tap dancer.te pieces to a mask, socially distanced crowd. they say this performance was a long time coming and audience members agree. >> just i usually show weeks of this is great to be back soon. have an march 8, 2020. >> now fans and performers alike are hoping more of broadway continues to open up over the course of the next several therapeutic for so many people. my gosh. i mean, like that woman that she goes once a do without it. yeah. well, we want to show this wonderful photo of the moon. take a look at this. and that's actually the moon. it shows with the lunar surface would look like with, quote, sumer superhuman vision. there's a photographer who altered the image of the moon to highlight with the human eye can't see. he says those colors are real and they represent the hidden geological history of the moon. the photographer says the brighter areas show where magma once flowed very, very beautiful. >> well, hey, it's been years in the making. now we are finally getting a look at the ne