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Tony Winners Who Have Landed Top 10 Hits on the Hot 100
Here’s a list of Tony Award winners who have also landed top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
Three recordings of songs from Broadway musicals have topped the Billboard Hot 100 – Louis Armstrong ’s rendition of the rousing title song from Hello, Dolly!, The 5th Dimension ’s sleek coupling of a pair of hippie anthems, “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In,” from Hair and Ariana Grande ’s “7 Rings,” which interpolates Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music. It’s closing in on the record long held by Lerner & Loewe’s splendid My Fair Lady(480 weeks) as the longest-charting cast album in history. In 1975, Midler won a special Tony Award “for adding luster to the Broadway season” for her Clams on the Half Shell Revue, which ran for 80 performances at the Minskoff Theatre.
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