Tony numbers

I still have this year’s Tony Awards on my TiVo, because every now and then I like to watch the performances from the nominated musicals. (I wish I had kept my recording from a couple years ago, if only to learn the choreography to “You Can’t Stop the Beat” from Hairspray.) Each time I watched bits from this year’s Tonys, I had to search forwards and backwards with the TiVo buttons since I’d always forget when and in what order the performances appear.

Today I decided to go through and write them down; I don’t know if this’ll be helpful to anyone out there, but I might as well share the list. Hour/minute markers are noted, and in the interest of completeness the list includes the additional musical performances, some of which I’d rather not revisit. Oh, Aretha. Tsk, tsk.

0:00-0:04 Opening montage: Bernadette Peters, “Another Op’nin’, Another Show” (Kiss Me, Kate); and casts of Spamalot, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Light in the Piazza, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
0:20-0:24 Hugh Jackman, dance medley
0:31-0:35 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, “Great Big Stuff”
0:47-0:51 The Light in the Piazza, “Statues and Stories”
1:01-1:04 Sweet Charity, “Big Spender” / “If My Friends Could See Me Now” / “I’m a Brass Band”
1:19-1:23 La Cage aux Folles, “La Cage aux Folles”
1:51-1:56 The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” / “Prayer of the Comfort Counselor”
2:07-2:08 Jesse L. Martin and cast of Chicago, “Razzle Dazzle”
2:20-2:24 Spamalot, “Find Your Grail”
2:33-2:36 Hugh Jackman and Aretha Franklin, “Somewhere” (West Side Story)