2008 Tony Awards: Performance & Presenters Lists

Here is a list of all performances that will be presented at the 2008 Tony Awards (updated as announced):

THE LION KING - "Circle of Life" (Opening Number, celebrating 10 years)
RENT - Unknown (Tribute, with original cast members)
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL - Unknown (Uncomfirmed, audition notice was posted for high schoolers to perform a number at the Tonys)

A CATERED AFFAIR - "Vision" (New This Season)
CRY-BABY - "A Little Upset" (Nominated for Best Musical)
IN THE HEIGHTS - "96,000" (Nominated for Best Musical)
THE LITTLE MERMAID - "Part of Your World" (New This Season)
PASSING STRANGE - "Keys/Amsterdam" (Nominated for Best Musical)
XANADU - "Don't Walk Away" (Nominated for Best Musical)
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN - "Deep Love" (New This Season)

GREASE - Unknown (Nominated for Best Revival of a Musical)
GYPSY - "Everything's Coming Up Roses" (Nominated for Best Revival of a Musical)
SOUTH PACIFIC - Unknown (Nominated for Best Revival of a Musical)
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE - "Move On" (Nominated for Best Revival of a Musical)

Stage and screen star Whoopi Goldberg will host the 62nd Annual Tony Awards, which will be presented June 15. CBS-TV will broadcast the event live from Radio City Music Hall, 8-11 PM ET. (Red-carpet arrivals begin at 6 PM).

Presenters for the program currently include Gabriel Byrne, Julie Chen, Harry Connick, Jr., Laurence Fishburne, Mandy Patinkin, David Hyde Pierce, Lily Tomlin, John Waters, Alec Baldwin, Kristin Chenoweth, Glenn Close, Richard Griffiths, Laura Linney, John Lithgow, Liza Minnelli, Mary-Louise Parker, Daniel Radcliffe, Brooke Shields and Marisa Tomei.

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Updated On: 6/9/08 at 11:35 PM

Heehee, blaxx.

I think In the Heights is doing 96,000.

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Updated On: 5/29/08 at 11:39 PM

What the Hell. I pay all this money and have to sit through High School Musical and Lion King performances? The only way this would be acceptable is if that time were replacing a lecture on the American Theater Wing.

LOL blaxx. I was going to input what IN THE HEIGHTS, PASSING STRANGE, and CRY-BABY are doing but I am waiting for permission.

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The Tony Awards are on the night before I fly to New York. I do not know how I am gonna be able to sleep that night! (Especially since my flight leaves at 6:40AM)

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No indication of anything being performed in honor of Sondheim's award?

a CRY-BABY cast member told me they're doing the Prison song ("A Little Bit Upset" ??) from Act Two.

Updated On: 5/30/08 at 12:09 AM

Are they really doing a HSM number? And if so can they have please have amazing Broadway Diva's perform it?

But in full costume from their respective shows, with their respective sets. So, you know, HSM George Seurat style. It's where musical theater is headed, after all!

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I would *kill* to hear Patti LuPone, Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters, Betty Buckly, Barbara Cook, Chita Rivera, Barbra Streisand, and Liza Minelli do "Getcha Head In The Game."

Patti: "Jump left!"
Liza: "Fake right!"

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Maybe a Sondheim tribute will be the opening?

That's my new avatar. Thank you.