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As expected, P!nk soared into her Tony Awards hosting gig connected flying wires – dressed arsenic Peter Pan. Ok nan costume wasn’t expected, but erstwhile big Neil Patrick Harris quickly put a extremity to that.
Hasn’t she heard, he asked? “The flying twinks are each vampires now.”
P!nk, changing into a much trademark look of tophat, pink corset and feathered cape, nan big first belted retired immoderate snippets from The Phantom of nan Opera, Les Misérables and Wicked earlier getting down to business pinch “Lady Marmalade,” nan Labelle deed utilized successful Moulin Rouge! Before agelong she was joined by conscionable astir everyone presently connected Broadway, including Sara Chase, Marla Mindelle, and folks from The Lost Boys, Titanique, Chess (including snubbed non-nominee Lea Michele), nan kids from Ragtime and caller players for illustration Megan Thee Stallion (Moulin Rouge!) and Whitney Leavitt (Chicago).
The lyrics were a bully Broadway mash-up too. Sample: “Gitchie, gitchie Laurie Metcalf!” 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 successful nan audience, added nan statement “Every domiciled I’ve played I slayed!”
All successful all, 1 of nan amended opening numbers of immoderate caller awards show, Tonys aliases otherwise.
Oh, and location was a bully small look forward: Neil Patrick Harris made a return travel to nan shape carrying a Paddington carnivore stuffed animal. “Next season,” P!nk yelled. “Spoiler alert!,” Harris responded. The British philharmonic Paddington is Broadway bound.
