{"id":533,"date":"2009-06-08T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/06\/the-tony-closing-number.html"},"modified":"2009-06-08T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T15:55:00","slug":"the-tony-closing-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"The Tony Closing Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what was probably the best Tony performance last evening, Neil Patrick Harris closed the show with a little medley reprising the opening combination of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">West Side Story <\/span>and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Guys and Dolls <\/span>with new lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, tonight<br \/>The Tonys were tonight<br \/>And Elton&#8217;s Billy was all the rage<br \/>What class, what drive<br \/>Now Angela won five<br \/>And she hooked up with Poison backstage<\/p>\n<p>  With heels as sore as poor Achilles<br \/>Three tutu-wearing Billys<br \/>Were such a winning sight<\/p>\n<p>  Tonight, all three<br \/>Won Tony plus they hit puberty<\/p>\n<p>  (to &#8220;Luck be a Lady&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>  And Geoffrey won a Tony tonight<br \/>Karen won a Tony tonight<br \/>Liza at the Palace<br \/>Mr. Ripley&#8217;s daughter Alice<br \/>They all won a Tony tonight<\/p>\n<p>  Credits!  That&#8217;s not going to stop me!<\/p>\n<p>  (&#8220;Tonight&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>  Chris Sieber &#8211; please!<br \/>Performing on your knees?<br \/>Dude, that only works<br \/>To win Golden Globes<\/p>\n<p>  I hope, tonight,<br \/>When they&#8217;re high as a kite<br \/>To be there when the <i>Hair<\/i> cast disrobes<\/p>\n<p>  This show<br \/>Could not be any gayer<br \/>If Liza was named mayor<br \/>And Elton John took flight<\/p>\n<p>  The curtain falls<br \/>I&#8217;m off to hit some big Tony balls<br \/>Goodnight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what was probably the best Tony performance last evening, Neil Patrick Harris closed the show with a little medley reprising the opening combination of West Side Story and Guys and Dolls with new lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. Tonight, tonightThe Tonys were tonightAnd Elton&#8217;s Billy was all the rageWhat class, what driveNow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=533\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Tony Closing Number<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2053,1766],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-neil-patrick-harris","tag-tony-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}