Idina Menzel, the original Elphaba, performing the song that ends Act One with a full symphony. The moment a good witch decides she would rather be good on her own terms than great on someone else's.

The song that introduced the world to Hamilton, performed for the show's 10th anniversary in New York. A room full of people rapping about not throwing away their shot, a decade after the shot landed.

The opening number of The Lion King in 360 degrees. Julie Taymor's puppetry turned a cartoon into theater history, and this sunrise still gives people chills thirty years later.

The original 1996 Broadway cast performing at the Tony Awards. Jonathan Larson died the night before the show opened off-Broadway; this is the song his friends sang to keep him in the room.

The Broadway and touring companies, assembled on the Music Box Theatre stage for the official video. A song written for anyone who has ever felt invisible, performed by the company that won six Tonys with it.

Renée Elise Goldsberry's tour-de-force: the entire first act of Hamilton retold in four minutes from Angelica Schuyler's point of view. The fastest rap on Broadway, and somehow the saddest song in the show.

Alfie Boe and Ramin Karimloo, two of the great Valjeans, singing the show's prayer side by side. Les Mis has run somewhere in the world every year since 1985; this is why.

Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, the original Elphaba and Glinda, reuniting for the song about how people change each other. Twenty years of friendship, one song.

Leslie Odom Jr. performing Burr's anthem at a Public Theater gala. The villain's song that half the audience secretly claims as their own: patience as a survival strategy.

The closing cast of Phantom's record 35-year Broadway run. The longest-running show in Broadway history took its final bow in 2023; this is how it sounded at the end.