Performances
The opening number had the cast of A Chorus Line in rehearsal clothing dancing and singing "I Hope I Get It," outside of Radio City Music Hall accompanied by Marvin Hamlisch on the piano, with the cast then ending on the stage in full gold costumes performing "One".
The following musicals or performers performed:
- 110 in the Shade ("Raunchy") -- Audra McDonald and John Cullum
- Grey Gardens ("The Revolutionary Costume for Today") -- Christine Ebersole
- Spring Awakening (medley of "Mama Who Bore Me," "The Bitch of Living," and "Totally Fucked"*)-- Company
- Curtains ("Show People") -- Company
- Mary Poppins (medley of "Chim Chim Cher-ee," "Step in Time," and "Anything Can Happen") -- Company
- Company ("Being Alive") -- Raul Esparza
- "American Idol" winner and replacement star Fantasia Barrino performed a song from The Color Purple (musical) in honor of Regional Theater Tony Winner Alliance Theater in Atlanta, GA, where the show premiered.
- * Because it was a live TV performance, "The Bitch of Living" (for references to masturbation) and "Totally Fucked" (for explicit lyrics) were censored for that night's performance.
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