Cher is popping again time — fairly actually.
To rejoice 50 years, “Saturday Night Live” hosted a star-studded live performance on Friday that includes musical friends who’ve appeared on this system all through the many years.
Cher was among the many performers who took the stage at Radio Metropolis Corridor for the “SNL50: Homecoming Concert”, transporting the group again to 1989 with a rendition of her hit “If I Could Turn Back Time.”
The 78-year-old icon wore the identical horny outfit — a see-through black bodysuit — that she did within the famed music video filmed 36 years in the past.
Teamed with a leather-based jacket, Cher wowed the group together with her age-defying physique and stamina.
Different celebs who carried out on the occasion included Miley Cyrus, Dangerous Bunny, The Roots, Arcade Hearth, Backstreet Boys, Bonnie Raitt, Brandi Carlile, Chris Martin, David Byrne and Woman Gaga.
“SNL” aired its first-ever episode in 1975 with musical friends Billy Preston and Janis Ian.
To rejoice half a century on air, a star-studded particular is ready to air this Sunday.
And with this system quickly approaching, Keith Raywood, who has been a manufacturing designer on the sequence for forty years, took a second to replicate on “SNL.”
“I’ve been a part of this pretty much my entire adult life,” the Emmy-winning manufacturing designer informed The Publish.
“I’ve always looked at it as something I love doing, but it’s also my job,” Raywood continued. “We’re not designing things aware of what it might mean – like ‘this cowbell is going to become iconic’” he mentioned, referring to Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken’s iconic “More Cowbell!” sketch.
“You don’t know about [the audience reaction]. You’re just part of the entire process.”
After many years engaged on set, Raywood is simply now realizing what a phenomenon the present actually is.
As he put it: “It’s only recently that I’ve become aware of how much the show has meant to people, how much it’s meant to the culture, how much it’s meant to New York.”
“I wasn’t really aware of that until fairly recently. It’s very satisfying to know that I’ve been a part of all that.”
Raywood additionally spoke about how the present’s creator, Lorne Michaels, nonetheless has a hand in “Saturday Night Live” 50 years later.
“Lorne is very involved, but not in the sort of nitty gritty of a particular sketch. We would be dealing with the director Liz Patrick. Or, a writer will come in and say they need something or they want to change a prop or something like that,” he defined.
As for celebrating the present’s half-centennial on the air?
“We [will] have about 450 people in the studio, which is essentially about 200 people more than we would normally have,” Raywood revealed.
The viewers might be jam-packed with the particular friends’ family and friends.
“Imagine all the people who have been on the show – those cast members and hosts. It’s a lot of people [there to see them]. And, those seats don’t normally exist,” he mentioned.
Iconic forged members from previous and current are set to make an look, together with Jane Curtin, Amy Poehler, Chevy Chase, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Will Ferrell, and others.
Though Raywood couldn’t reveal what viewers will see, he did tease that it’ll contain “lots of new and older cast members doing lots of sketches.”
