{"id":290796,"date":"2020-04-11T18:13:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T00:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1137694"},"modified":"2020-04-11T18:13:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T00:13:29","slug":"charlie-puth-liam-payne-and-more-perform-at-richard-weitzs-star-studded-zoom-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/charlie-puth-liam-payne-and-more-perform-at-richard-weitzs-star-studded-zoom-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Puth, Liam Payne and More Perform at Richard Weitz’s Star-Studded Zoom Party"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UPDATE<\/strong>: These days, the hottest ticket in town is to Richard Weitz<\/strong>‘s Zoom parties. On Saturday, the WME partner and his 17-year-old daughter Demi gathered more than 450 friends for a virtual concert to help raise money<\/a> for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.<\/p>\n

To kick off the star-studded event, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti <\/strong>spoke to the group, offering positivity and encouragement amid the Coronavirus pandemic. Indeed, that was the theme throughout the three hour spectacular, which featured performances by Randy Newman<\/strong>, James Bay<\/strong>, Tony Hadley<\/strong>, Weird Al Yankovic<\/strong>, Alfie Boe<\/strong>, Rick Astley <\/strong>and Marcus Mumford<\/strong>. Guests including David Foster<\/strong>, Katharine McPhee<\/strong>, Amy Adams<\/a><\/strong> and Clive Davis<\/strong> watched in awe as legendary composer\u2014and eight-time Oscar winner\u2014Alan Menkin<\/strong> performed a jaw-dropping medley of his famous Disney hits<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And while Charlie Puth<\/a><\/strong> sang “Attention” and bantered with Liam Payne<\/a><\/strong>\u2014he performed his new hit “Midnight”\u2014Auli’i Cravalho<\/a><\/strong>stunned the audience with “How Far I’ll Go” and “Part Of Your World.” Closing out the event was The<\/em> Greatest Showman<\/em>‘s<\/a> Loren Allred<\/strong>, who sang the musical’s hit “Never Enough.”<\/p>\n

Come the final bow, Weitz and his daughter, who had invited several nurses to enjoy the show, had raised more than $150,000 for the L.A. hospital. “This has been an unimaginable hardship,” Garcetti said. “And helping out those responders who are on the line right now in our hospitals…is everything.”
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While you’re Zooming with your family and friends, many celebs are doing the same with their famous friends. And, one Hollywood agent has turned these into concerts chock-full of nostalgia.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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WME partner Richard Weitz has been hosting virtual parties with a slew of celebrities as they all hunker down at their homes amid the Coronavirus pandemic. In a recent one, LL Cool J<\/strong> performed his 1987 rap song, “I Need Love,” telling viewers to “stick together, stay close, stay tight.” Payne performed a cover of Sam Smith’s “How Do You Sleep,” much to the delight of Weitz’s “fangirling” daughter.<\/p>\n

Throughout the event, Thomas Rhett<\/a><\/strong> sang his uplifting ballad “Be a Light,” while Billy Ray Cyrus<\/a><\/strong> performed his 1992 single “Achy Breaky Heart.” Broadway’s Adam Pascal<\/strong> performed “Seasons of Love (525,600 Minutes)” from the ’90s musical Rent <\/em>and Astley gave acoustic performances of his viral song, “Never Gonna Give You Up” and his other big hit single, “Together Forever.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Previously, more than 200 people took part in a Zoom “concert” hosted by Weitz, including Josh Groban<\/a><\/strong>\u2014who performed a cover of Simon & Garfunkel<\/strong>‘s “America”\u2014Tina Fey<\/a><\/strong>, Fred Savage<\/strong> musician Chris Isaak<\/strong>. On another night, John Mayer<\/a><\/strong> performed “Your Body is a Wonderland” and “New Light” from his Montana home, Debbie Gibson<\/strong> sang songs like her ’80s hit “Only in My Dreams,” Rick Springfield<\/strong> performed “Jessie’s Girl” and Boy George<\/strong> performed “Karma Chameleon,” according to the Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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On his Instagram page, Weitz has described his Zoom gatherings as a “mini Live Aid,” referring to the star-studded 1985 global concert aimed at raising funds to fight famine in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

“I want people to have a good time,” Weitz told THR<\/em>. “It’s like comfort food \u2014 songs and artists that people have literally grown up with that make everyone happy and bring joy in this difficult time.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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(This story was originally published on Sunday, April 5, 2020 at 4:13 p.m. PT)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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UPDATE: These days, the hottest ticket in town is to Richard Weitz‘s Zoom parties. On Saturday, the WME partner and his 17-year-old daughter Demi gathered more than 450 friends for a virtual concert to help raise money for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. To kick off the star-studded event, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti spoke to the group, offering positivity and encouragement amid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-23 08:33:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}