Then music started playing over the loudspeakers. Not a train announcement, but a song almost all of us know.
It was Julie Andrews singing “Do-Re-Mi” from The Sound of Music.
At first, just a few people start dancing in the middle of the station. People stare. Then more join them. Then dozens more. Before long, more than 200 dancers are moving together across the great hall, while the travelers around them stop and watch in amazement.
Some start to laugh. Others pull out their phones to film it.
As Julie sings, the dancers act out the song, with big, happy moves that anyone can follow. When the music ends, they simply walk away and blend back into the crowd, as if nothing happened.
The whole thing lasted about four minutes, and the dancers had only two rehearsals beforehand.
It was put together to promote a Belgian TV show that was searching for a new leading lady to play Maria in a stage production of The Sound of Music.
The video quickly spread around the world, and it has now been watched tens of millions of times.
Watch the faces of the people in the station. It’s hard to think of a better way to start a Monday.
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