Neil Patrick Harris hosted the 65th Annual Tony Awards with typical wit and verve, starting with a catchy song informing CBS viewers that Broadway is "not just for gays anymore" and ending with a rapped wrap-up that was legen-dary.
The opening song, featuring Broadway fixtures ranging from the flight attendants of "Catch Me If You Can" to the missionaries of "The Book of Mormon," explained that theater is also for "foreign tourists and the groups of senior citizens and well-to-do suburbanites and liberal intellectuals — well, that group is really only Jews and homosexuals."
Here are the best of Harris' many good lines, followed by video of the closing number:
"Good evening.