How do you get to Carnegie Hall during a worldwide shutdown? If you’re an audience member, just log onto social media, and you’re there! The new online series "Live with Carnegie Hall" is bringing the celebrated stage and its artists to the world virtually and courtesy of the internet.

"Our purpose always is to really use music to connect with people, to enable people to, you know, to have something extraordinary inspirational in their life," said Clive Gillinson, Executive and Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall.

The inaugural concert and talk-show featured Emmy-nominated star of stage and screen Tituss Burgess, who made his main stage Carnegie Hall debut earlier this year. I was honored to be asked to host.

Tituss performed a handful of songs, including music by the Gershwin brothers, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, and more. His special guests were Tony winner Jason Robert Brown, opera star Angel Blue, and poet Anne Walsh Miller.

With the doors to Carnegie Hall officially shut until further notice, Gillinson says he and his team have to think outside the box to keep the famed stage alive.

"We're sharing a bus number of music education projects online, making sure them, kids, families, teachers, have access to all our resources. So without doubt, this will push us much further and quicker perhaps down the line of, you know, how we make resources, particularly education resources, available online, as well as other things?" said Gillinson.

To close out his show, Tituss opted for the Broadway tune “Tomorrow,” a song about hope.

"While every single day for many of us feels the same, we have to hope for those who are in the hospital, who cannot get out of bed, you know?" Burgess said while tearing up. "Sorry, and, we have to hope for, with hope for them."