Hugh Jackman sauntered onstage to deliver Oh What a Beautiful Morning, a sly reappropriation of the Morning in American slogan.
Show tunes and spoken word presented by women, minorities, members of the LBGTQ community, and Elgort almost certainly won’t tip undecided voters toward Clinton.
He then introduced a disembodied Barbra Streisand as the “voice of God”, which is pretty much how the Broadway community regards her.
The cavalcade of performers don’t seem to have spent much time rehearsing, so the evening’s tone was uneven as was its execution.