Rob McClure's Broadway Medley of Musicals 2003-2023
Clip: Season 50 Episode 18 | 4m 12sVideo has Closed Captions
Rob McClure performs an homage to the last twenty years of Broadway.
Rob McClure performs an homage to the last twenty years of Broadway musicals.
Major series funding for GREAT PERFORMANCES is provided by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Sue...
Rob McClure's Broadway Medley of Musicals 2003-2023
Clip: Season 50 Episode 18 | 4m 12sVideo has Closed Captions
Rob McClure performs an homage to the last twenty years of Broadway musicals.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪♪ 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]
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