As anticipated, P!nk soared into her Tony Awards internet hosting gig on flying wires – dressed as Peter Pan. Okay the costume wasn’t anticipated, however former host Neil Patrick Harris rapidly put a cease to that.
Hasn’t she heard, he requested? “The flying twinks are all vampires now.”
P!nk, turning into a extra trademark look of tophat, pink corset and feathered half-dress, the host first belted out some snippets from The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables and Depraved earlier than getting right down to enterprise with “Girl Marmalade,” the Labelle hit utilized in Moulin Rouge! Earlier than lengthy she was joined by nearly everybody at the moment on Broadway, together with Sara Chase, Marla Mindelle, and folk from The Misplaced Boys, Titanique, Chess (together with snubbed non-nominee Lea Michele), the youngsters from Ragtime and up to date gamers like Megan Thee Stallion (Moulin Rouge!) and Whitney Leavitt (Chicago).
The lyrics had been a pleasant Broadway mash-up too. Pattern: “Gitchie, gitchie Laurie Metcalf!” — sub Metcalfe with Carrie Coon, Lesley Manville, and so on. — and shout-outs to Liberation, Proof, Becky Shaw, Rose Byrne and Kelly O’Hara of Fallen Angels. June Squibb, a nominee for Marjorie Prime sitting within the viewers, added the road “Each function I’ve performed I slayed!”
All in all, one of many higher opening numbers of any current awards present, Tonys or in any other case.
Oh, and there was a pleasant little look ahead: Neil Patrick Harris made a return journey to the stage carrying a Paddington bear stuffed animal. “Subsequent season,” P!nk yelled. “Spoiler alert!,” Harris responded. The British musical Paddington is Broadway sure.
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