Video This Is Your Round Of Applause 2022 Tony Awards Opening Number de Ariana Debose 2025 Soundtracks Lyrics

Ariana Debose - This Is Your Round Of Applause 2022 Tony Awards Opening Number Lyrics

[ARIANA]
That sound, the sound of cheering
We work to try and hear it
Each show we've ever put on
And poured our hearts into
But this is the occasion
The night with the ovation
Belongs to everyone here
Every one of you

'Cause we all play a leading part
In this art of making art
And so, tonight, for you, I wanna start
By saying

To every team, every cast
In present, future, and past
Tonight, at last
This is your round of applause
For the last seventy-five years
You've kept it alive, cheers
High five!
This is your round of applause
'Cause you know the show would never go on
If we didn't all come together as one
So let's all take this chance
To make a song and a dance
Let's see your hands
This is your round of applause
Bit by bit, putting it together
There's been too many shows over the years
To list them top to bottom
So we've mashed up a few, let's see if you can spot 'em!

[ENSEMBLE, spoken]
Women in the sequel, work!

[ARIANA]
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome
Im Cabaret, au Cabaret, to Cabaret

Life's a ball, if only you know it
And it's all just waiting for you
Come on!

[ARIANA, ENSEMBLE, ALL]
Stand back, Buenos Aires(Ease on down the road)

You ain't never had a friend like me (Never had a friend like me)

And we've got magic to do
Just for you

But I simply cannot do it alone
Yodl layee, odl layee, odl-oo

[ARIANA, spoken, ENSEMBLE & LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA, spoken]
Radio City! (Look around, look around)
What's good? (And love is love is love is love)

[ARIANA, ENSEMBLE, ALL]
To Fosse, Ebb and Kander (Work, work)
To Lin-Manuel Miranda (Work)
I'm such a fan, duh! (We better work, work)
This is your round of applause

Won't forget, can't regret
What I did for love

I got rhythm
I got music
I got my gal
Who could ask for anything more?

'Cause the world keeps spinning 'round and 'round
('Round and 'round)
And my heart's keeping time to the speed of sound
(Speed of sound)
I was lost 'til I heard the drums, then I found my way
'Cause you can't stop the beat
To all my theatre queens
Who get it done like machines
Behind the scenes
This is your round of applause
It's been seventy-five years
Of bringing laughter and tears
Y'all are fierce
This is your round of applause

[LEA SALONGA, spoken]
This can't be for real

[DAISY EAGAN, spoken]
I don't think I can talk

[KRISTIN CHENOWETH, spoken]
Mom and Dad, you drove me to many, many hours of ballet and dance classes, I hope you feel it's worth it now

[ADRIENNE WARREN, spoken, & ENSEMBLE]
My parents; everything that I am, is because of you
(Let's go, ooh-woah)

[JUDITH LIGHT, spoken, & ENSEMBLE]
Uh, this is such a gift, and you are such a generous community
(Wait for me, I'm coming)

[MICHAEL BENNETT & MICHAEL PETERS, spoken, & ENSEMBLE]
We would like to thank our dancing sets, our dancing lights, our dancing costumes
(Let's go, ooh-whoa)

[BARBRA STREISAND, spoken, & ENSEMBLE]
It was on a Broadway stage that my, my career really began
(Wait, I'm coming with you)
(It's all happening)

[ARIANA]
There's a place for us

[AUDRA MCDONALD, spoken, & ARIANA]
I want to thank all the shoulders of the strong and brave and courageous women that I am standing on
(Somewhere, a place for us, it all fades away but you)

[JEANINE TESORI, spoken, ARIANA & ENSEMBLE]
Because for girls, you have to see it to be it
(Gimme, gimme)
(Thank you for the music)
(That thing called)

[ARI’EL STACHEL, spoken, ARIANA & ENSEMBLE]
Your biggest obstacle may turn into your purpose
(The songs I'm singing)
(One more dawn)

[ANDRÉ DE SHIELDS, spoken, & ENSEMBLE]
So keep climbing
(One more day)

[JAMES MONROE IGLEHART, spoken, & ARIANA]
This is a praise shout, hey!
(2-4-6-0)

[ARIANA, ENSEMBLE, ALL]
One night only, one night only
We only have 'til dawn

Let the sunshine (Yeah)
Let the sunshine in

Everybody rise
Rise

To brass, percussion, and strings
To everyone in the wings
And all the swings!
This is your round of applause
To every theatre fan Here since the Tonys began
It's you we stan
This is your round of applause

Climb ev'ry mountain (This is your round of applause)
Keep it gay, keep it gay, keep it gay (So lift your hands up because)
People who need people (This is your round, this is your round)
Are the luckiest people (This is your)
Hey, world! (Round of applause)
I am what I am! Viva la vie Broadway!
Hah!

This is your round of applause
This is your round of applause!