According to Neil Patrick Harris’ opening number at the 65th Annual Tony Awards, theatre is not just for gays anymore. Here, Harris points out all of the straight folks who came to the Beacon Theatre in honor of Broadway’s best.Harris performed the big opening with help from the casts of Catch Me If You Can, Sister Act, The Book of Mormon, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Anything Goes. Also taking part were Brooke Shields, the actress soon to star in The Addams Family; Stephen Colbert, who starred alongside Harris in the New York Philharmonic’s Company; and Tony nominee Bobby Cannavale, from The Motherf**ker With the Hat.
The amusing opening number, It's Not Just For Gays Anymore, might have been more convincing if they could have found a straight man to sing it. And I hope whoever rhymed "breeder" with "theater" is not gay. Whomever he is, he isn't Sondheim. (Actually, the piece was written by David Javerbaum, and except for the aforementioned bum rhyme, it had a lot of genuinely clever wordplay throughout.)
How nice of Brooke Shields to illustrate exactly why movie "actors" are out of their depth in the theater with actual actors.
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