Ten years later and Sutton Foster is again doing it eight times a week, no big deal. Legend.

TO THIS DAY I can’t listen or watch or think about The Color Purple without tearing up and melting into an emotional mess. The power of the human voice y’all.

The amount of times I’ve watched Sutton fosters anything goes performance is astounding

Of course "And I am telling you" is nº 1 on the list. It is PERFECT.

It should be noted that Bernadette was incredibly ill during that year’s Tony performance - and STILL showed such passion and force as Rose. That is a true performer!

Gentleman’s Guide & Defying Gravity absolutely deserved to be on this list, not just as honorable mentions…

Just saying, Waitress should be higher on this list for the fact that Jessie Mueller literally had LARYNGITIS and still belted like a QUEEN!!!

No surprise that Jennifer Holliday is #1. And I'm Telling You is absolutely legendary. I read that crowds went wild every show and she received constant standing ovations throughout the shows run. No one had heard a voice like that before! No wonder she won the Tony and Grammy for that song. Wish I was alive then to witness it all.

Cynthia Erivo’s performance has left me sobbing uncontrollably over and over.

Cynthia’s performance of I’m here never fails to make me cry. It’s just absolutely beautiful and uplifts my soul every time.

Patti literally screaming with perfect pitch through Evita and to an unsurprising and extremely deserving Tony... LEGEND. Cynthia is pure perfection. GIVE HER MORE ROLES NOW.

There really was only one choice for number 1. I mean...Almost 40 years later and still chills.

Drinking Game: every time Andrew Rannells licks his lips during “I Believe”

Once on This Island doesn’t get enough love! Their Tony performance always gives me chills!!

I can't believe Andrew is here twice and he hasn't won a tony yet

I’m convinced people go out of their way to not mention Once on This Island in videos like this! That tony performance was AMAZING!!!

The Color Purple's performance is breathtaking. I have watched it countless times

BILLY PORTER SINGING EVERYTHING’S COMING UP ROSES IN THE COMMERCIAL BREAK!!!!! So amazing

Where is Patti LuPone with her "Everything's Coming Up Roses"? It got a full standing ovation that evening! 🌹

Miss Saigon doesn’t get the love it deserves. I saw it a few years ago and it was one of the best shows I’ve seen. Also I LOVED Beetlejuice. It got snubbed. It should have won best lighting and Adam Brightman should have won actor with the way he sang and everything.

Alan Cummings performing Cabaret reignited my passion for these shows. I was blown away by that!

Sobbing at Michael Jeter's speech. That performance was absolutely amazing.

Daniel Radcliffe and the cast of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying would like a word with you.

You featured the incomparable, Patti Lupone, in the video's opening sequence...but not in the countdown at all! Her (and Mandy Patikin's) performance of A New Argentina from Evita, truly deserves to be in the top 10!!!

Raul Esparza singing Being Alive is my personal favorite. I can’t believe he sang like that 8 times a week.

My favorite is "Sunday" from the original Sunday in the Park With George. Gave me goosebumps. So incredible how they slowly made the actors become a painting on stage.

I'm still thinking of Gia Gun asking 🤔 "what's a Tony?" 🏆🤭🤣🤣

Being Alive from Company...with Raúl Esparza performing!!!???? That was a powerful performance.

Josh Groban opens his mouth and I get chills. Doesn't matter what he sings. Every, single, time. ❤️💖

Patti not on this list is a crime!

Pippin's Tony performance made us want to run to Broadway. So disappointed that it isn't at least mentioned here. We were lucky enough to get first row, on the aisle seats and practically felt part of the show. Amazing and fantastic! Broadway at its best!

“Ring of Keys” from Fun Home continues to be one of my favorite Tony moments.

Ragtime is one of the most underrated musicals of all time. It’s rare for that show not to move me to tears.

The addition of Dust and Ashes to "NP&Great Comet" was one of the greatest additions they could've made from off-broadway to broadway

As soon as I saw the list I knew what was going to be number 1. I am a musical theatre instructor and I show this video to my kids every year to show the amount of emotion that can be told in a song.

Ahhhhh I remember literally “discovering” The Great Comet of 1812 through the Broadway cast album the day of its Tony’s & seeing them perform that night was MAGICALLY ELECTRIC!! ✨❤️ I really hope to see it one day live, it really left broadway far too soon! 🥺☄️

I'm so glad you included 'I've decided to Marry You' - the Tony Award Performance is actually better than the cast album!

Yes, so agree with your #1. But of the list should have been on the honorable mentions. 2 of the numbers you showed in the preview… Betty Buckley performance in Cats (are you kidding me… 100% untouchable by any belter of the past or present! It’s literally a laser that is also HUGE) and Patti Lupone Evita, I am completely stunned at those two. Frankly LuPone’s Mamma Rose is much better. Bernadette & Mandy Patinkin and Sunday the park with George? Secret Garden, in Lillys eyes? Will Rogers Follies or 42ns St. These are not only iconic but haven’t been out done to date. LaCage should have gotten honorable mention as well as Sweeney Todd! Jerome Robins Broadway “West Side” brings tears. Baby should have had honorable mention, as well! I can go on but you top 20 was really off from my perspective

Do Top Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Broadway performances this November

Sutton Foster makes everything she does seem so effortless- how is that possible?!?

I got to see the Lion King live in New York in 1998, I remember having a crush the guy who played young Simba, and seeing all the animals in the aisles and floating in the air. I still have my poster and program to this day, absolutely stunning

Betty Buckley performing Memory from Cats didn't make the cut? That's incredibly odd. I called that either it or Holiday would be number one with the other being number two.

Saw "Les Miz in 1987. "Phantom" on Broadway in 1988. Michael Crawford was absolutely amazing! Also saw Patti LuPone in "Anything Goes" that same year. ❤️ Saw "Grand Hotel" in 1990. Being a theater student in the late 80's/early 90's in NYC and getting discounted student tickets meant I got to see a lot of amazing stuff. 😊 (A bit of trivia: The actor playing Zach in "A Chorus Line" is Robert LuPone, Patti's brother.)

the way the 2016 tony awards will forever be iconic

Just found out from this video that Michael Jeter passed so long ago, but Im crying so hard at his acceptance speech.

Evita is criminally underrated

I’m so glad Sutton fosters face is on the photo for this video. Her anything goes Tony performance is the most amazing thing!!

I am sooooooooooo glad you included "We'll Take a Glass Together" from Grand Hotel. Such a wonderful moment in Broadway history. That said, there are so many wonderful performances throughout the years; it's impossible to keep it to a top 20.

If Newsies wasn’t in here I was going to STRIKE. Jeremy Jordan deserves all good things for being a wonderful human It’s so crazy they thought the stage show would fail. Take that

I listen to phantom of the opera EVERYDAY under my welding hood... ... and i be deadass serious singing every lyric

Gosh, Josh Groban’s vocal range is so lovely!!! Such amazing range, and his deepest notes are just wonderfully rich and sonorous. Ugh so dang good!!

I’m glad A Chorus Line was honorably mentioned, because it’s one of my absolute favorites, the film as well!

Watching Alice Ripley’s performance in “Next to Normal” on live tv MADE me go see the show! So glad she won Best Actress!

I'm so thrilled to see some Next to Normal recognition. It's story is absolutely heartbreaking and it's one of my all time favorite musicals. I wish people talked about it more.

My favorite Tony performance was Tyne Daly singing “Rose’s Turn” from GYPSY. WOW!

I love seeing Next To Normal getting the respect it deserves

Honestly I love in Ragtime how you can just tell it’s Audra popping off that high note

Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters top my list as an exhilarating duo in Sunday in the Park with George. Will never forget it.

Hadestown, Come From Away and Fun Home's performances are some of my favourites. I wish they got an honourable mention.

When I saw the Falsettos revival pop up I lost my mind. Didn't expect it to be on the list, but I am so frickin' glad it was!

The choice for 1st place is the correct decision! My oh my is that amazing!

i’m so glad y’all included next to normal. i feel this show needs a MAJOR spotlight now more than ever, especially with the pandemic and quarantine

SO glad to see Great Comet and Newsies on this list! If you want to watch a show that'll have you grinning from the infectious energy from beginning to end, Newsies should be your go-to :)

You missed out 'Not The Boy Next Door' from The Boy From Oz - Hugh Jackman was incredible in that number, and won a well deserved Tony Award :)

Raul Esparza didn't pour his whole soul on stage while singing Being Alive for you to not mention him.

Sutton Foster has always brought it and she proves time and time again she still can and I have HUGE respect for her

Raul Esparza’s Being Alive performance is something truly special. I love this list but it should have been included

No wonder why "And I am telling you" is number 1! Best performance ever! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Cynthia’s performance is going down in history the same way Jennifer Holiday’s has. Mark my words.

Jennifer Holiday... the queen!!! There are Broadway shows and then there is DREAMGIRLS!!!

Great choices, but Julie Andrews was magnificent and unforgettable singing a medley of My Fair Lady and Camelot in 1991 and also if I am not mistaken a perfect Send in the Clowns at an 80's Tonys

I’m disappointed that the oldest performance listed is from 1982, which really was beautiful. There are many wonderful ones since it was first televised in 1967.

Patti LuPone opening this video and NOT being on the list is TRAGIC!

I still remember watching Jennifer Holiday perform on the Tony’s. Even on my small TV at college I was mesmerized! Definitely #1!

With the recent passing of the great Stephen Sondheim, I want to include the 1994 performance of his musical Passion at the Tonys. Passion is a romantic and complex story of a love triangle in mid-1800's Italy. Donna Murphy (who is also Mother Gothel in Disney's Tangled) is amazing as Fosca, an unattractive woman who is weak in spirit and body. She falls for a soldier whose moment of kindness towards her sparks her obsession. The soldier is involved with a beautiful married woman and is uncomfortable and confused about Fosca's desperate obsession towards him. The songs are beautiful and beautifully sung. Passion would win several Tonys. It is currently a respected but still underrated musical. EDIT: I should also mention the 1984 Tony performance of Sondheim's Sunday In The Park With George. It's a look at the approach to painting and life of artist George Seurat. His most famous painting was Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Sondheim's song, Sunday, depicts Seurat's final decisions as he finishes this painting in one of the most beautiful moments ever done on the stage.

How is Angela Lansbury not even mentioned on this list! She performed Gypsy and Sweeney Todd, and not even Avenue Q was on this list!

That Anything Goes performance should be top 10 AT LEAST.

"History Has Its Eyes On You" deserves higher I get chills without fail

Grand Hotel (#11 - 14:15) should be MUCH higher on this list

Jennifer Holliday is the epitome of Broadway

my favourite is the deaf west production of spring awaking performance it's so touching.

"Lion King" is still one of the most breathtaking things Ive ever seen. Great list!

Barbra Streisand funny girl, Jennifer Holliday Dreamgirls, Carol Channing Hello Dolly, Patti Lupone Evita, Audra McDonald Porgy & Bess, Fantasia then Cynthia Erivo The Color Purple, Mandy Patinkin Fiddler on the Roof, Bernadette Peters Gypsy/ anything from A Chorus Line/ Phantom of the Opera/ Hamilton/ THERE ARE JUST soooo many gifts from broadway! THANK YOU.

I would add Sunday from Sunday in the Park With George from 1984.

I adore Cole Porter, so of course I love Anything Goes! Sutton Foster was so charismatic, performing it!

Miss Saigon Musical is the Best and Lea Salonga is Queen of Broadway…😘

Only reason I’d live in NY is so I could have chance to see some of these amazing Musicals! I live for the Tony’s every year to get little taste of these pieces of Art! I have zero Musical or Dance Talent but little part me wants to be on one of these Stages! Lol little part!

Love love love this video. Perfect preferences from some of the best Performers in the theater business I could watch this video over and over and over and over and over again

I remember seeing so many of these when they originally aired and just being knocked out by them and applauding in my living room!

Was I the only one that was moved beyond measure by Hadestown’s Tony performance? The performances, the choreography, the direction? STUNNING. It is something I go back and watch again and again. Not discrediting any of these performances but I’m shocked it’s not on the list. Maybe I’m crazy. Hahaha.

So excited to see Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba in the movie version of Wicked!!!

I remember when Hamilton preformed I kept rewatching the video and crying over and over to it, especially when I found out about the not using the gun props thing, I started crying all over again. I went back to it when the country was having a school walk out in protest of school shootings and cried all over again

Love seeing great comet get the recognition it deserves!!

Totally agree with your top pick, and delighted to see Great Comet and Ragtime are in the mix of all these great performances!

Coming here in 2022 to say that Joaquina Kalukango's Paradise Square performance is definitely among these greats!!!

As soon as they opened with THE QUEEN PATI LUPONE I just had to like it.

I just love Sutton Foster's voice.

Excellent list!!!!

what an amazing collection of showstoppers and it was so kind of the lady commentator to talk over all the performances

bernadette peters performing rose's turn will always be my favorite