OK, people, time to start planning those Tony Award viewing parties for Sunday, June 10 on CBS.We've got to get those dismal ratings up, so if you're having people over, make sure they're still setting their TiVos (and VCRs if you're archaic) to record the telecast. If you're a Nielsen family, do some creative figuring and say you watched the Tonys on all five of your TVs.The show's organizers have begun talking about what we'll be seeing.Audra McDonald will sing ``Raunchy'' from 110 in the Shade, for which she is nominated in the best actress in a musical category.Christine Ebersole will sing ``The Revolutionary Costume for Today,'' which happens to be the best song in Grey Gardens, for which Ebersole is competing with McDonald in the best actress category.The cast of Curtains, featuring David Hyde Pearce, will peform ``Show People'' and the adorable cast of Spring Awakening (so I'm biased -- sue me) will perform a medley from the Duncan Sheik-Steven Sater score. The cast of Mary Poppins will perform -- probably the TV-ready ``Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.''The revival of A Chorus Line will likely trot out ``One'' again (we've seen that baby everywhere, from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to ``The View''), and Raul Esparza will probably sing ``Being Alive'' from the revival of Company.Fantasia, a recent replacement in the hit The Color Purple, is also slated to perform.There won't be a host (sorry, Nathan Lane) this year, but the list of presenters is impressive and includes Harry Connick Jr., Claire Danes, Neil Patrick Harris, Anne Heche, Marg Helgenberger, Felicity Huffman, Eddie Izzard, Jane Krakowski, Angela Lansbury, Robert Sean Leonard, Cynthia Nixon, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Plummer, Liev Schreiber, John Turturro, Usher, Vanessa Williams, Rainn Wilson and the cast of Jersey Boys.

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