Neil Patrick Harris' 2011 Tony Awards Opening Number

good evening good evening I'm teen heartthrob Neil Patrick Harris it's an honor to be back hosting the 65th annual Tony Awards and I'd like to deliver a very important message on behalf of all of us who care so deeply about this community [Music] if you've seen a show then you already know how magical theater can be it's a two-hour live action barely affordable unlit synched version of Glee this song goes out to the rest of them those who've never seen theatre before because Broadway has never been broader hey it's not just for gays anymore [Music] if you feel like someone that this world excludes it's no longer only for dudes who like dudes attention every reader you're invited to the theater it's not just for gays the glamour of Broadway is beckoning straights the people who marry in all 50 states we're asking every head of row tickets that know us better or let's not just for gays if your fine upstanding Christians [Music] [Applause] it's for sober minded businessmen who yearn for some real down your playboy and go make a plan to pick up a playbill and feel like a man there's so much to discover with your different gendered lover it's not just for gays the gays and the Jews cousins in from out of town you have to amuse the stat embittered malcontent to write the reviews and also foreign tourists and the geeks of senior citizens and well-to-do suburban nights and liberal intellectuals though that group is really only Jews and homosexuals I've lost my train of thought oh yes it's not just for gays Wow you can smell the testosterone in the room can't you look at this place it's full of straight people Angela Lansbury you're superhot those things real Stephen Colbert you're straight as they come any thoughts I enjoy the theater I've enjoyed it all my life I enjoy it with my female woman wife nice don't we all don't we all Stephen look at this it's amazing Ollie straight people James Earl Jones you're straight but that's a red rag you're straight Joe Mantello thanks for coming [Applause] Christie Brinkley's there that's been to Brooke Shields you're super hot you made me think I was great for like 23 years many coments stage five six seven when a Twitpic of its crunch nice it was worth it totally improvised you to Bonneville yet what's going on you see you'll feel right at home here on Broadway everyone look at all these straight people Al Pacino you're way too famous to participate in this bid look who's here Bobby Cannavale e you're here what's there you five six seven Broadway touches parts of me that never have been touched I love it very much well said sir Wow I mean come on isn't it I mean isn't this awesome [Music] we've got swarms of the Mormons showgirl sailors dancing boys and nuns plus the spider facing death beep I budget Oh people from red states [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] mr. gage we beat Isis brother [Music] just for game [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

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Keywords: gay, Tony, Awards, NPH, Neil, Patrick, Harris, Book, of, Mormon, Sister, Act, Catch, Me, if, You, can, Anything, Goes, CBS, 2011

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Length: 5min 45sec (345 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 13 2011