"Broadway Backwards" gets pretty gay

Ann Harada, Julie Halston, and friends romped randily through "Everybody Ought to Have a Maid" from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Real-life couple David Burtka and Neil Patrick Harris stopped the show with "Take Me or Leave Me," the lesbian confrontation number from Rent

Gary Beach gave a heartfelt performance of "Fifty Percent" from Ballroom. The song, about a widowed woman who can never fully share her married lover's life, took on new meaning in this context.

Tony Yazbeck and Aaron Lazar went from hot-hot-hot to tender and gentle as they performed "A Boy Like That / I Have a Love" from West Side Story