The casts of KINKY BOOTS, PIPPIN, MATILDA and many more shows and entertainers joined host Neil Patrick Harris on last night's broadcast of the 67th Annual Tony Awards on CBS. Below, we bring you the lyrics to the television medley, which included appearances from Laura Benanti, Megan Hilty, and Andrew Rannells!
Rannells: Hey, there's a lot of great things about doing TV- the perks, the pay, the private jets, the craft service. But it's nothing like doing live theatre. It's where I have my roots.
I like to be on a TV show
NPH: What?
Rannells: Yes, the theatre. It's home, Neil. Theatre will always be my true home.
I like to be on a TV show
NPH: But
Rannells: And I know that, no matter how many sitcoms or crime dramas or groundbreaking cable series I may star in, I will always be welcomed back to the theatre with warm and open arms!
I like to star on a TV show
Muy popular on a TV show
Chauffeur and car on a TV show
NPH: That's if you are on a TV show
Rannells: I love the theatre but
No two a day on a TV show
No matinee on a TV show
Very nice pay on a TV show
NPH: If you can stay on a TV show
Rannells: Now you're just being a douche
Hilty: Hey, boys...
Go work your agent submissions
and cattle call auditions
Don't think it wont take you far
But you gotta have a series
if you wanna be a star
NPH: Megan, that's not true!
Hilty: Land a Broadway show, sure
But if you want exposure, a sitcom helps to burnish your name
you gotta have a series
If you want a shot at fame
Benanti: I'll drink to that
Here's to the actors with shows
making tons of bucks
Lining up their ducks in proverbial rows
Lucky sons of schmucks
Both my shows were cancelled it's true
No joke, haha. Not one show but two.
And so I raise my bottle to you
Television sucks
Sucks, sucks
NPH: Wow, Laura, that's bitter
Benanti: Yeah? Well, we all can't be like Will Chase can we? His show got canceled but at least he's nominated for something tonight.
Hilty: And Will wasn't even on the second season of "Smash."
Rannells: Suck it, Will Chase.
Benanti: Yeah, suck it, Will.
NPH: Guys, guys. Doing TV has its pros and cons. And just like the theatre, you sometimes have a hit and sometimes you don't. We all can't have a long-running TV hit like my show.
HIlty: Ouch.
NPH: and even though your shows were canceled, the upside is that you can always come home to the theatre.
Kiss LA goodbye
It's back to four show weekends
Deli food and sketchy Equity insurance packages
Hilty/Rannells/Benanti: Won't forget
Can't forget
what I did for...
Benanti: An obscene amount of money
All: What I did for
Rannells: A really cool loft in Tribeca
All: What I did for
Benanti: The chance for producers and directors and writers and casting agents and just well, everybody to see me and love me, because after all that's essentially what we all crave, because nobody ever hugged us as children which is how we got into this business in the first place. Esspecially you Neil.
All: What I did for NPH: Do All: For loveVideos