UDPATE, with lyrics: As expected, P!nk soared into her Tony Awards hosting gig on flying wires – dressed as Peter Pan. Ok the costume wasn’t expected, but former host Neil Patrick Harris quickly put a stop to that.
Hasn’t she heard, he asked? “The flying twinks are all vampires now.”
P!nk, changing into a more trademark look of tophat, pink corset and feathered half-dress, the host first belted out some snippets from The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables and Wicked before getting down to business with “Lady Marmalade,” the Labelle hit used in Moulin Rouge! Before long she was joined by just about everyone currently on Broadway, including Sara Chase, Marla Mindelle, and folks from The Lost Boys, Titanique, Chess (including snubbed non-nominee Lea Michele), the kids from Ragtime and recent players like Megan Thee Stallion (Moulin Rouge!) and Whitney Leavitt (Chicago).
The lyrics were a nice Broadway mash-up too. Sample: “Gitchie, gitchie Laurie Metcalf!” — sub Metcalfe with Carrie Coon, Lesley Manville, etc. — and shout-outs to Liberation, Proof, Becky Shaw, Rose Byrne and Kelly O’Hara of Fallen Angels. June Squibb, a nominee for Marjorie Prime sitting in the audience, added the line “Every role I’ve played I slayed!”
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Read the lyrics below.
All in all, one of the better opening numbers of any recent awards show, Tonys or otherwise.
Oh, and there was a nice little look forward: Neil Patrick Harris made a return trip to the stage carrying a Paddington bear stuffed animal. “Next season,” P!nk yelled. “Spoiler alert!,” Harris responded. The British musical Paddington is Broadway bound.
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Here are the official custom-written lyrics for the opening number:
DEBORAH COX (as Molly Brown)
HEY SISTER, GO SISTER, SOUL SISTER, FLOW SISTER
BOOM across the stage, spotlight on ANN HARADA.
ANN HARADA (as Florence Menlove) HEY SISTER, GO SISTER, SOUL SISTER, GO SISTER
BOOM spotlight on SHAINA TAUB
SHAINA TAUB (as Emma Goldman)
HEY SISTER, GO SISTER
SHAINA/DEB/ANN
SOUL SISTER, FLOW SISTER…
Now we’re in it as TWELVE DANCERS rise from the floor…
12 DANCERS + SHAINA/DEB/ANN (music building)
HEY SISTA, GO SISTA, SOUL SISTA, FLOW SISTA
HEY SISTA, GO SISTA, SOUL SISTA, GO SISTA
HEY SISTA, GO SISTA, SOUL SISTA, FLOW
HERE’S YOUR LEADING LADY MARMALADE…
PINK APPEARS IN A FABULOUS NEW COSTUME!
PINK
IT’S THE LEADING LADY MARMALADE!
Hello Radio City….how you feeling’?! This is how P!NK hosts the Tony Awards!
WE LOVE WHEN A DIVA LIGHTS UP OLD BROADWAY
STRUTTIN’ HER STUFF WITH SOME STYLE
SO…“HELLO HEY SHO–YOU WANNA GIVE IT A GO?”
SHOSHANA BEAN
TONYS, WE’RE ABOUT TO GET WILD!
PINK
DON’TCHU WORRY THERE’S MORE LEADING LADIES IN STORE MARLA MINDELLE (as Celine)
CELINE’S GONNA BELT ON A BOAT (OH YEAH)
PINK
WE’LL HAVE GLAMOUR AND GLITZ
CHRISTIANI PITTS
AND CHRISTIANI PITTS! PINK/SHOSHANA/MARLA/CHRISTIANI SO DON’TCHA DON’TCHA TOUCH THAT REMOTE!
PINK/SHOSHANA/MARLA/CHRISTIANI + 12 DANCERS
GITCHIE, GITCHIE, LESLIE MANVILLE
GITCHIE, GITCHIE, CARRIE COON
PINK
PHENOMENAL NOMS FILL YOUR PLAYBILL
PINK/SHOSHANA/MARLA/CHRISTIANI + 12 DANCERS
IT’S GIVING LEADING LADY MARMALADE
MARLA MINDELLE (as Celine) Shall we go for it?!!!
PINK/SHO/MARLA/CHRISTIANI + 12 DANCERS
LIBERATION PROOF BECKY SHAW, CE SOIR ROSE BYRNE AND KELLI O’HARA
HALF THESE NOMS HAVE PLAYED ELPHABA, CE SOIR WHITNEY LEAVITT
LET’S DANCE LIKE TIKTOK MOMS FROM UTAH
PINK
STEPHANIE HSU, RACHEL DRATCH, WHAT A MATCH, STEALING SCENES
NICHELLE AND CAISSIE BROUGHT “RAG” BACK ON THE BOARDS
HANNAH CRUZ
SOME LEADING LADIES ARE REIGNING AS TRUE CHESS QUEENS
LEA MICHELE (suddenly appearing)
AND WE DON’T DO IT FOR THE AWARDS!
PINK/HANNAH/LEA + 12 DANCERS GITCHIE, GITCHIE, BETSY AIDEM
SQUIBBY SQUIBBY SQUIBBY JUNE
JUNE SQUIBB
ALL THE PARTS I PLAYED—I SLAYED EM
PINK/HANNAH/LEA + 12 DANCERS LEADING LADY MARMA
+ RAGTIME ENSEMBLE
LA LA LA LA LA
LITTLE BOY In 2026, the Tony Awards were hosted south of New Rochelle, at the corner of 50th street and the Avenue of the Americas.
12 DANCERS + RAGTIME ENSEMBLE
LA LA LA LA LA
LITTLE BOY
The lyrics to Lady Marmalade were rewritten for the occasion, for Pink was hosting. And it was determined the rhythm and poetry portion of the song would be performed by Megan, a Stallion from Thee…
Megan Thee Stallion enters carried by two hunks.
MEGAN THEE STALLION
The theater is Mother’s domain!
They put her down.
MEGAN
Thanks gentleman. I don’t know those guys. They were just two strangers carrying some CAKE.
WE COME THROUGH WITH A BOLD SET OF NOMINEES FROM THE NEW TO THE OLD DEUTERONOMIES TONIGHT WE’RE RIGHT WHERE WE WANNA BE
CELEBRATE COMMUNITY IN THIS ECONOMY
‘CAUSE WHETHER YOU WIN OR WHETHER YOU LOSE
WE’RE ALL BADASS CHICKS FROM THE MOULIN ROUGE!
MEGAN / CHASITY MOORE
WE PROVED REVIVALS AIN’T RELICS AT ALL
ROCKY HORROR ENSEMBLE
ROCKY HORROR PSYCHEDELICS
CATS ENSEMBLE
AND THE JELLICLE BALL
PINK
WE GOT HIGH WIRE VAMPIRES
PINK + LOST BOYS
GLAM GOTH EVIL
PINK
LOST BOYS IN HARNESSES
ALI
AND NOT AT THE EAGLE
PINK
JACK AND ROSE FROZE BUT THEY’RE SINGIN’ THE HITS
ON THE TITANIQUE
+ TITANIQUE CAST MEMBERS
AS THE ICEBERG SPLITS
PINK
SUSANNAH FLOOD IN A MEMORY PLAY
MARYLOUISE AND THE
+ 12 DANCERS
H! O! A!
PINK SOME SHOWS WE WERE STOIC IN, SOME WE WERE FLASHY IN
GOT AYA CASH AND A DASH OF KARDASHIAN
JOE TURNER’S GONE BUT TARAJI’S HERE
MINDELLE, GRIZABELLA IT’S A HELLUVA YEAR!
Sara Chase enters in her Schmigadoon backpack
SARA CHASE
Whoa. Am I in a musical??
EVERYONE
Yeah! SARA
What is Pink doing here?
PINK
DANCING, SINGING, HOPE PRODUCERS NOTICE!
SARA
I HEAR THEY ONLY CAST YOU IF YOU’RE ON WHITE LOTUS…
PINK
Not tonight! Tonight you’re a leading lady!
SARA
I am?
PINK
You’re Sara Chase! You and your co-star Ana Gasteyer are nominated for Tony Awards!
SARA
We are!? I am?!
I’M IN THE LEADING LADY MARMALADE!
PINK/SARA
THE LEADING LADY MARMALADE!
BRYCE PINKHAM/NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER/RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON/ANDRE DESHIELDS
HEY SISTERS, SOUL SISTERS DON’T FORGET YOUR BROS, SISTERS
LEIOMY MALDONADO & DYLAN MULVANEY
HEY SISTERS, ALL SISTERS
PROTECT THE DOLLS, SISTERS
12 DANCERS + SCHMIGADOON, RAGTIME & CATS ENSEMBLES
MORE (MORE) MORE (MORE)
ALECIA MOORE! (MOORE) MOORE! (MOORE)
PINK + 12 DANCERS
GITCHIE GITCHIE LAURIE METCALF
SCHMIGA SCHMIGA DOON DOON DOON (DOON DOON, YEAH)
DANNY RADDY CLIFFE AND RIFF RAFF LEADING LADY MARMA—
NPH (with PADDINGTON BEAR) MAR, MAR MAR MAR MAR, MAR MAR MAR MARMALADE!
PINK
No! Maybe next season…
A quieter moment—
PINK STANDING ON STAGE AT THE TONY AWARDS
TEN-YEAR-OLD ME IS LIKE, OH MY GOD.
THIS AIN’T CHATGPT, THIS AIN’T CLAUDE THIS IS LIVE! SO I HOPE YOU APPLAUD…
FOR THIS CAST, THE WHOLE TEAM EVERY KID WITH A DREAM
EVERY LEADING LADY MARMALADE!
EVERYONE YOU CAN IMAGINE FROM EVERY SHOW ENTERS! PINK DANCERS + SCHMIG/RAG/CATS/LB ENS.
ONSTAGE OR BACKSTAGE OR USHERS ON CALL AH (ON CALL)
YOU’RE PART OF THIS ART WE ADORE AH (HEY)
WHETHER YOU’RE RUNNING FOR YEARS WHETHER YOU’RE RUNNING FOR YEARS
OR YOU CLOSED IN THE FALL OR YOU CLOSED IN THE FALL
OR YOU’RE BUSTING YOUR BUTT ON TOUR!
(TOUR!)
+ LEADING LADY SOLOISTS/2STRANGERS/ROCKY/TITAN
TOUR! (TOUR)
+ NPH/SOUL SISTERS/DOLLS/MEGAN
TOUR!
ALL
IT’S BROADWAY’S BIGGEST NIGHT YES MAMA, C’EST SOIR
BRING YOUR KIDS AND MOTHER-IN-LAW
MAYBE NEXT YEAR THEY’LL GET LADY GAGA, C’EST SOIR
IT’S THE LEADING LADY MARMALADE WELCOME TO THE TONY AWARDS!!!!