What actress sang a song from the play “Pal Joey” at the Tony Awards?”
The televised ceremony on CBS began with an unusual opening number: an athletically choreographed musical mélange that stretched for 10 minutes and featured performances from 10 different Broadway shows, including “West Side Story” (with actors singing a section of “Tonight”), “Billy Elliot” (“Electricity”) and “Hair” (“Let the Sun Shine In”). Some of the numbers overlapped to the point of near-inaudibility, and there was a peculiar moment as Stockard Channing (“Pal Joey”) and Aaron Tveit (“Next to Normal”) made eyes at each other as they performed songs from their shows that, in tandem, bordered on the discordant. Dolly Parton sang the title number from the musical “9 to 5” even though she is not in the show.
