The 70th annual Tony Awards should be used as a blueprint for all award shows moving forward.
This year’s ceremony — which held additional significance in the wake of Sunday’s shooting massacre in Orlando — was a powerful celebration of love, creativity and talent, peppered with incredible performances from some of the most gifted individuals ever to grace the Broadway stage.
And thanks to CBS, those performances are now available in their entirety to enjoy ad nauseam — if that’s even possible — beginning with host James Corden’s emotional opening number:
From now on, we’ll be doing things alphabetically. Enter the cast of Bright Star:
The cast of The Color Purple:
The cast of Fiddler on the Roof:
The cast of Hamilton, with a special intro from Barack and Michelle Obama:
The cast of On Your Feet!, featuring Gloria Estefan:
The cast of School of Rock:
The cast of She Loves Me:
The cast of Shuffle Along:
The cast of Spring Awakening:
Waitress‘ Jessie Mueller, featuring Sara Bareilles:
And we’ll end things, appropriately, with the ceremony’s closing number, which doubled as a Hamilton encore:
Which Tony Awards performance(s) will you have on repeat until next year’s ceremony? Drop a comment with your pick(s) below.
