Rob McClure performs an homage to the last twenty years of Broadway musicals.
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TRANSCRIPT
♪♪ Twenty years of musicals ♪♪ ♪♪ Some famous, some forgotten ♪♪ ♪♪ Some beautiful, some Next to Normal.
Others, Something Rotten ♪♪ ♪♪ Spelling bees and mermaids, Natasha, oh, Pierre, ♪♪ ♪♪ Tina, MJ, Donna Summer, King Kong, Shrek, and Cher.
♪♪ ♪♪ Two decades to remember, and I do for I was there ♪♪ ♪♪ [Laughs] Come on!
♪♪ It was a Wild Party ♪♪ ♪♪ In The Heights with the Jersey boys ♪♪ ♪♪ Those Dirty Rotten Scoundrels made a Beautiful Noise.
♪♪ ♪♪ There were Mean Girls singin'’’ loud enough to wake the dead.
♪♪ ♪♪ I turned to Mary Poppins and this is what she said ♪♪ ♪♪ put your Kinky Boots on and get On Your Feet.
♪♪ ♪♪ Tell Dear Evan Hansen it'’’s time for Dirty Dancin'’’ cause You Can'’’t ♪♪ ♪♪ Stop The Beat ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ After Midnight, I Escaped to Margaritaville where ♪♪ ♪♪ Me and Bad Cinderella popped a Jagged Little Pill ♪♪ ♪♪ We were Flying Over Sunset nothing was Taboo ♪♪ ♪♪ She said, "Come Fly Away with me to Avenue Q" ♪♪ ♪♪ I said, "Bring It On!"
♪♪ ♪♪ Let'’’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang we were feelin'’’ Good Vibrations ♪♪ ♪♪ like 101 Dalmatians until that doorbell rang ♪♪ ♪♪ Hello!
My name is Elder Rob and I would like to share with you the most amazing book ♪♪ ♪♪ The Book of Morrr...orrr ♪♪ ♪♪ In walked Dracula with Young Frankenstein ♪♪ ♪♪ He was All Shook Up drinkin'’’ Color Purple Wine ♪♪ ♪♪ He hooked up with a Waitress, but by dawn ♪♪ ♪♪ she had gone on a Honeymoon in Vegas with Hamilton ♪♪ ♪♪ At the Moulin Rouge we were all gettin'’’ down ♪♪ ♪♪ I started playing Footsie with that pretty woman, Tootsie ♪♪ ♪♪ it got hot as Hadestown Mamma Mia, here I go again!
♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Spongebob SquarePants taught me how to Riverdance ♪♪ ♪♪ Rocky cut loose, in a Dogfight with Beetlejuice ♪♪ ♪♪ Swingin'’’ Tarzan got it on with Spiderman ♪♪ ♪♪ It was more than the Prom for us ♪♪ ♪♪ This party was scandalous.
♪♪ ♪♪ There were Bullets over Broadway, there was Bonnie and Clyde.
♪♪ ♪♪ Aladdin got me high on his magic carpet ride.
♪♪ ♪♪ We were singin'’’ We Will Rock You in High Fidelity ♪♪ ♪♪ Then we all got Wicked with the Addams Family ♪♪ [snaps] ♪♪ I remember it all like it was yesterday ♪♪ ♪♪ Twenty-some years on old Broadway.
But this party isn't over!
♪♪ [pants] Oh my God thank you so much- -You are so welcome you'’’re doing really great -There'’’s a lot of shows.
I know, I know, you'’’re you'’’re doing great.
You got this- -Is that Tony winning water?
Yes -I knew I never tasted it before.
-Oh- -Thank you so much.
♪♪ I'’’m inviting everyone ♪♪ ♪♪ So meet me in the lobby, ♪♪ ♪♪ this party'’’s just begun, ♪♪ ♪♪ this party'’’s just begun, this party'’’s just begun...unnnn!
♪♪ [applause]
