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The special featured performances by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Meryl Streep, Patti LuPone and more kicked off on YouTube more than an hour after the announced start time.

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00:00Broadway gave tribute to Stephen Sondheim in a glitzy, star-studded online concert special

00:13to celebrate the lyric legend's 90th birthday. The extravagant special called Take Me to the

00:18World, a Sondheim 90th birthday celebration, which aired on Broadway.com and YouTube in

00:23support of artists striving to end poverty, featured performances from many of Broadway's

00:28greatest, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, and Audra McDonald,

00:33just to name a few, and even an appearance from Meryl Streep. The famous composer and lyricist's

00:3890th birthday was actually back on March 22, but the tribute special was taken online after the

00:44novel coronavirus pandemic sadly shut down Broadway. But still, Sunday night's special was nothing short

00:49of a celebration. One of the highlights of the special was easily Meryl Streep, Audra McDonald,

00:53and Christine Baranski donning bathrobes and guzzling down drinks for their performance

00:58of The Ladies Who Lunch from Sondheim's company. Elsewhere during the special,

01:09Annalie Ashford and Jake Gyllenhaal reunited for a song from their 2017 Broadway revival of

01:15Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George. Ben Platt performed a duet with Beanie Feldstein

01:27from Into the Woods, It Takes Two, and Neil Patrick Harris sang The Witch's Rap also from

01:38Into the Woods. But how was I to know what your father had also hidden in his pocket?

01:45What? Beans. Beans? The special beans. To watch more star-studded performances from Stephen Sondheim's

01:50tribute special, head to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.

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