Tony Awards 2011 Closing SongNeil Patrick Harris

Tomorrow, if anyone asks you what happened at the Tonys, you can say this: we straightened things out in the opening number, Ellen Barkin and John Benjamin Hickey took home awards for their hilarious performances in The Normal Heart
Daniel Radcliffe kicked some butt, and we were so elated
Even Voldemort was sad he wasn't nominated

Norbert Leo Butz sang and danced and tried to catch ya, comin' atcha
Chasing Trey and Casey 'cause they nabbed a Tony statue
Commencing in the Chattanooga station
From the grand imagination of the Kander/Ebb collaboration
It takes a lot for a recipient to humble me
But everybody cried for gorgeous Nikki James, the bumblebee
Andrew Rannells sang “I Believe” and he landed it
So well now he's Mitt Romney's VP candidate
All across the country, from the north and to the south
They're saying "Brooke's a hottie with a crazy potty mouth"
John Larroquette brought an eloquent mood to the room
I'm still imagining him at home in his Fruit-of-the-Looms
Spider-Man and Mary-Jane gave us perspective here
They sang a ballad, we didn't need protective gear
But Patina Miller's nun sang “Raise Your Voice” with cheer
And Memphis is relentless, they're performing every year
The Normal Heart won, Larry Kramer made us weep
And War Horse dazzled us with a theatrical sweep
Sutton Foster never lost her knack for talking smack
And tapping a full-on assault attack
I'm awesome, Hugh Jackman, take that

Go ahead and roll the credits if you need to
I'm out of control, I'm on a roll, this is my Tonys speed-through
Anything Goes took the best revival prize in stride
We didn't see it, we were singing “Side by side by side”
McDormand loves her job, Sutton Foster won again
Paul Shaffer sang and suddenly it started raining men
Mark Rylance runs at fences, he's won the Tony twice
That guy can do it all, his follow-up is Fanny Brice
Norbert Butz and Mormon swept the floor
Won even more awards than War Horse
Par for the course, someone get a cart for the horse

And in the final analysis, what survives tonight?
Theater, because it's what we live
We're changing some lives tonight
And theater thrives because we live to give it, so to speak
This ain't reality TV, this is eight shows a week
Every chorus member that you saw tonight, tappin'
Had to make miracles happen
For a chance to see you clappin'
And applauding in the audience
What's next? Who knows? Anything goes
Now go see a motherf*****g Broadway show
Thank you, good night!
(*mike drop*)