Last night, The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon premiered the musical parody 2020: The Musical, co-starring Tony nominee Andrew Rannells. The score reworks some dozen Broadway hits in a recap of the past year. The pandemic features prominently in “Suddenly COVID” (from “Suddenly Seymour,” Little Shop of Horrors), “It’s Day 16 Going on 17” (from “Sixteen Going on Seventeen,” The Sound of Music), and “Losing My Sanity” (from “Defying Gravity,” Wicked), while the vaccine is the theme of “Moderna” (from “Maria,” West Side Story) and “My Shot” (from, of course, “My Shot,” Hamilton). The presidential election gets a shout out too in “You Can’t Stop the Count” (from “You Can’t Stop the Beat,” Hairspray), with additional songs from Cats, Dreamgirls, A Chorus Line, and The Book of Mormon, ending with Rannells in a show-stopping version of “I Believe.”
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