Tituss Burgess & Andrew Rannells Duet on Classic Love Song at Tony Awards Concert

The out actors wowed the crowd with a Stephen Sondheim classic.

Tracy E. Gilchrist

Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP of Editorial and Special Projects at equalpride. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.

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Broadway is back after going dark for nearly 18 months. To celebrate its triumphant return, the Broadway community gathered on Sunday for the Tony Awards for shows that ran before the shutdown of March 2020. The ceremony, hosted by six-time Tony winner and The Good Fight star Audra McDonald, was followed by a special "Broadway's Back" concert that Hamilton's Leslie Odom Jr. hosted. While the night was packed with shout-outs to queer identity, one sweet moment that was a highlight was a duet between Tituss Burgess and Andrew Rannells, who held hands to sing the love song "It Takes Two" from Into the Woods to one another.

The special concert featured production numbers from the nominated musicals, Tina -- The Tina Turner Musical, Jagged Little Pill, and the winner in the best musical category, Moulin Rouge. The famed Winter Garden Theatre was packed with luminaries of the arts, all in masks as part of safety protocols. As part of an ode to great musical duets, Rannells and Burgess regaled the audience with Stephen Sondheim's classic tune sung by the characters of the Baker and the Baker's Wife when they rekindle their love for each other while in the woods. On a night where queer Tony winners Lauren Platten (actor in Jagged Little Pill), Sonya Tayeh (choreographer for Moulin Rouge), and The Inheritance playwright Matthew Lopez, all called out the LGBTQ+ community, the Burgess/Rannells duet was a sweet cake topper. Other moving duets of the night included a teary Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel singing "For Good" from Wicked and McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell bringing down the house with "Wheels of a Dream" from Ragtime.

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\u201cThe cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, and @Instatituss & Andrew Rannells singing "It Takes Two" are all we need to survive the woods, and it's not even midnight! #TonyAwards\u201d
— CBS (@CBS) 1632711999