Photo Flash: Miranda Sings Plays Birdland

On Monday, March 29, singer/vocal coach/dancer/model/internet sensation Miranda Sings brought her dazzling act to the Broadway at Birdland stage once again. Armed with special guests Ann Hampton Callaway, John Tartaglia, Sam Tsui, Jarrod Spector and Domenic Nolfi, the show was packed with beautiful singing, performance critiques, the reading of hate mail, and love gone astray. Ms. Sings will be making a return to Birdland on Sunday, April 25 at 6pm. 

Miranda Sings is an internet character created by California-based theatre student Colleen Ballinger, and proliferated via YouTube. The character is a satire of increasingly common YouTube videos featuring mediocre or even bad singers who film themselves singing as a form of self-promotion. Miranda is supposedly from Tacoma, Washington, sings comically off-key, and, when confronted by viewers who take the videos seriously, uses the catchphrase "Haters back off!" The characterization includes facial tics, unusually active eyebrows and a crooked smile. She also wears lipstick drawn beyond all natural borders and often dances stiffly to the music she is performing. Ms. Ballinger's character has enjoyed widespread popularity, particularly among musical theatre fans, and has recently appeared as Miranda Sings at live club and theater venues in New York (The Minskoff Theatre, Jim Caruso's Cast Party), Los Angeles, Australia, and London (Ambassador Theatre).