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:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRVwHP__qMM
From now on, we’ll be doing things alphabetically. Enter the cast of Bright Star:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcXqdazKUf4
The cast of The Color Purple:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puR2RXOGIi8
The cast of Fiddler on the Roof:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI6yRuHKuMc
The cast of Hamilton, with a special intro from Barack and Michelle Obama:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtLKdQW40Xo
The cast of On Your Feet!, featuring Gloria Estefan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az5YpKb1HRY
The cast of School of Rock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHqIA7-AmL0
The cast of She Loves Me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J7za4pl27k
The cast of Shuffle Along:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh4tXAu5TIU
The cast of Spring Awakening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7qh8eoILrU
Waitress‘ Jessie Mueller, featuring Sara Bareilles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BETLGWoRE9s&index=3
And we’ll end things, appropriately, with the ceremony’s closing number, which doubled as a Hamilton encore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tun1y0qtwIc
Which Tony Awards performance(s) will you have on repeat until next year’s ceremony? Drop a comment with your pick(s) below.
