Great Tony Awards Performances
Great Tony Awards Performances
Great Tony Awards Performances#1
Posted: 1/22/26 at 8:27pm
So what are the great Tony awards performances? I want to look them up on You Tube.
Updated On: 1/22/26 at 08:27 PM
Great Tony Awards Performances#2
Posted: 1/22/26 at 8:55pm
Jennifer Holiday - And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"
One of my top favorites.
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Great Tony Awards Performances#3
Posted: 1/22/26 at 9:15pm
God, how much time do you have? just some of my favorites
- Jennifer Holliday in Dreamgirls is the pinnacle
- they're not from a musical but NPH has some of my favorite Tony performances ever as host. specifically Not Just For Gays Anymore, and Kiss L.A. Goodbye
- Ragtime
- Baby
- Hedwig
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- A Christmas Story (super underrated performance)
- Evita (1980)
- La Cage (1984)
Great Tony Awards Performances#4
Posted: 1/22/26 at 9:15pm
Grand Hotel, We'll Take A Glass Together.
Anything Goes title song, performed by Patti LuPone and cast.
The original cast of Les Miserables, One Day More.
Angela Lansbury and Beatrice Arthur, reuniting for Bosom Buddies from Mame.
Dick Latessa and especially Judy Kuhn with the title song from Rags.
Leslie Uggams, Lillian Hayman and Robert Hooks singing Smile, Smile from Hallelujah, Baby!
Spring Awakening's original cast performing a medley of Mama Who Bore Me, The Bitch of Living and Totally F*cked.
Great Tony Awards Performances#5
Posted: 1/22/26 at 10:24pm
Dreamgirls, Grand Hotel, Gypsy (patti), My One and Only
Great Tony Awards Performances#7
Posted: 1/23/26 at 3:21am
Gypsy (Bernadette). The vulnerability in ‘wellll someone tell me when is it my turn’ is unmatched.
Gypsy (Patti). Feels like a thrilling come back to everyone that told Patti no, including Sam Mendes who was meant to direct Patti in Gypsy before Arthur Laurents stopped it and asked for Bernadette.
Great Tony Awards Performances#8
Posted: 1/23/26 at 6:51am
from Michel Bennett:
Promises Promises (Turkey Lurkey)
A Chorus Line
Dreamgirls
From Tommy Tune:
Grand Hotel and Will Roger’s Follies
Others that I don’t think have been mentioned: Applause, Woman of the Year, Pippin
Great Tony Awards Performances#9
Posted: 1/23/26 at 6:53am
Anything goes- Sutton foster
thoroughly modern Millie
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Great Tony Awards Performances#10
Posted: 1/23/26 at 9:21am
Besides Dreamgirls, Grand Hotel and the two Anything Goes, I’d add Contact (but I think it is off YouTube), Big Deal, Catch Me If You Can, The Wedding Singer, The Apple Tree and Applause.
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Great Tony Awards Performances#11
Posted: 1/23/26 at 11:20am
Can't believe I forgot Applause. Throw a vote in for that from me too
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Great Tony Awards Performances#12
Posted: 1/23/26 at 11:26am
A Gentleman’s guide to love and murder!
Great Tony Awards Performances#13
Posted: 1/23/26 at 11:27am
Melissa25 said: "Ring of Keys from Fun Home."
I'm so glad they abandoned the original concept for the Fun Home Tony performance. At the invited dress that morning they attempted to recreate the in the round experience of Circle in the Square by using the giant LED wall to mirror the audience instead of just having Sydney Lucas turn around and put her back to the audience. I get what they were going for, but it just didn't work during the dress rehearsal
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Great Tony Awards Performances#14
Posted: 1/23/26 at 11:37am
Anyone who doesn't say Grand Hotel is wrong. Ha! Also, The Life and the original production of Ragtime are two of my other favorites.
Great Tony Awards Performances#15
Posted: 1/23/26 at 11:40am
-The Bands Visit
- Any of the Gypsy revival numbers (Bernadette, Patti, Audra)
-Book of Mormon
-Man of LaMancha (Brian Stokes Mitchell)
-How To Succeed (90's revival - just to see the great Lilas White tear it up)
-Guys and Dolls (90's reival - Walter Bobbie's kills "Sit Down Your Rocking the Boat)
There are so many, but I much prefer the shows that just highlight one number then to do a medley.
Great Tony Awards Performances#16
Posted: 1/23/26 at 4:11pm
Many of my favorites have already been mentioned - but I would add the Hair revival of 2009 - I immediately purchased tickets to it after just watching them in the opening number.
And The Boy from Oz was fantastic - Hugh in his gold lame pants and a mortified Sarah Jessica Parker was the best :)
Great Tony Awards Performances#17
Posted: 1/23/26 at 6:40pm
Omar Sharif--Katrina Lenk (The Band's Visit)
Grand Hotel
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Great Tony Awards Performances#18
Posted: 1/23/26 at 8:16pm
There will also be a small place in my heart for the Starmites Tony performance (never seen the show)
Updated On: 1/23/26 at 08:16 PM
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Great Tony Awards Performances#19
Posted: 1/23/26 at 10:17pm
Baby pretty much takes the cake for me.
Great Tony Awards Performances#20
Posted: 1/23/26 at 11:05pm
"Grand Hotel".
Watching this also makes me sad. It should have been David Carroll performing the number with Michael Jeter.
By the time David died in 1992 I had lost over 100 friends and acquaintances to AIDS and I thought I was immune to pain. Davids death shattered me. I still miss him.
Great Tony Awards Performances#21
Posted: 1/24/26 at 7:59am
George in DC said: ""Grand Hotel".
Watching this also makes me sad. It should have been David Carroll performing the number with Michael Jeter.
By the time David died in 1992 I had lost over 100 friends and acquaintances to AIDS and I thought I was immune to pain. Davids death shattered me. I still miss him."
He was glorious as the Baron. I will be forever grateful to have seen him right around this time. Here he is with Michael Jeter and company at the 1989 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTbWru3i8o4&list=RDYTbWru3i8o4&start_radio=1
Great Tony Awards Performances#22
Posted: 1/26/26 at 8:04am
In 1999, Peter Pan was having a limited run until September at the Gershwin. It was going to close early, with the notice going up the Tuesday after the Tony Awards. Cathy Rigby flew right at the camera out in the house that night and the line the next morning for tickets was out the door. We made the full run. Which again, begets the question, what are these people afraid of? You don't have to put a commercial on the super bowl. But a few well timed ads might actually make people aware you are even there. Oh, and there was actually a set for Peter Pan. Crazy. A real, full, bedroom set.
Great Tony Awards Performances#23
Posted: 1/26/26 at 8:18am
I prefer Tony Awards performances that have a little audience participation to it like Hugh Jackman's performance from BOY FROM OZ back in 2004 (see below) and also Neil Patrick Harris's performance from HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. To this day I'm still in awe with what NPH did onstage every night at the Belasco 11-12 years ago. I doubt those stuff would be done today (especially kissing lips to lips with a random audience member.)
Great Tony Awards Performances#24
Posted: 1/26/26 at 9:07am
I’m pretty partial to the Bright Star Tony Awards performance. I, particularly, love the camera choreography when the Steadicam pans around Carmen Cusack.
Great Tony Awards Performances#25
Posted: 1/26/26 at 10:10am
Surprised nobody has mentioned the original 42nd Street doing “Lullaby of Broadway,” an absolute joybomb of classic musical comedy heaven.
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