Broadway’s annual Miscast Gala took place this week, and to celebrate, we look back at some of the best celebrity Miscast performances that we can get our hands on.

Musical theater fans, it’s the most wonderful time of year! No, not the Tonys — better. It’s Miscast week! MCC Theater’s Miscast Gala took place on March 30, and as usual, it’s provided some fantastic, hilarious and unusual performances for us to enjoy. It’s like Halloween and Christmas all wrapped up in one.

For those who have no idea what we’re on about here, MCC Theater is an off-Broadway theater company with a prestigious history tied to developing new and unusual works. They’re also the hosts of the annual Miscast Gala, one of the most exciting nights in the Broadway community’s calendar. Miscast is a benefit concert in which Broadway actors and celebrities perform songs by characters that they would never be fit to play in real life — be it due to gender, race, age… the weirder the better.

Naturally, many stars relish in the opportunity to sing something that they love desperately but will never get to do professionally, and the performances range from ridiculously tongue-in-cheek to touchingly heartfelt. The result is a special night for all, audience and participants, where the actors get to push themselves while also poking fun at themselves and the crowd gets to witness a once-in-a-lifetime performance. Miscast is a very exclusive event, so unfortunately, the internet receives only a tiny percentage of the glory that audience get to see — but it’s enough to know that attending Miscast one day is an instant life goal for Broadway fans worldwide.

We couldn’t include every performance we would have liked here, purely because videos aren’t always available — we’re still desperate for a full clip of Girls star Zosia Mamet doing “Seize The Day” from Newsies and we’ve heard that two veteran Cinderellas, Jessie Mueller and Laura Benanti, duked it out this year on the princely duet “Agony” from Into The Woods. But we’ve done our best to compile a list of past Miscast performances that even the uninitiated will be delighted by. Trust us — if you’ve never heard of Miscast, you ain’t seen nothin’ like this before.

Jeremy Jordan — ‘Don’t Rain On My Parade’ from ‘Funny Girl’

This iconic number was the closing slot of this year’s gala — as if, after Smash, The Last Five Years, and Supergirl, we needed anything else to cement Jeremy Jordan as the Broadway star most likely to next become a genuine household name.

Uzo Aduba and Ben Platt — ‘A Little Priest’ from ‘Sweeney Todd’

Orange Is the New Black’s Uzo Aduba got to combine some trademark “crazy eyes” with dashing elegance as Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Her Mrs. Lovett, who makes people into pies, was Ben Platt, the adorable Benji from Pitch Perfect.

Norbert Leo Butz and Aaron Tveit — ‘What Is This Feeling’ from ‘Wicked’

Tveit and Butz acted together as the young lead and mentor figure in Catch Me If You Can, but they also both portrayed Fiyero in Wicked at different points. Their competitive take on Elphaba and Glinda’s hate-duet will go down in Miscast history forever.

Megan Hilty — ‘Mean To Me’ from ‘Ain’t Misbehavin”

Ain’t Misbehavin’ is a tribute to the black musicians of the Harlem Renaissance in 1920s and ’30s. As a blonde, white, Marilyn Monroe-esque figure, it would be both unlikely and inappropriate for Megan Hilty to take part, but it doesn’t stop her from being a fan!

Jonathan Groff — ‘Anything Goes’ from ‘Anything Goes’

The definition of a showstopper. In 2012, Groff brought the house down with his rendition of the role that Sutton Foster won a Tony for. Not only does he nail Reno Sweeney’s saucy attitude, he pulls off the number’s original four-minute tap solo without breaking a sweat.

Jane Krakowski — ‘In The Heights’ from ‘In The Heights’

Where to start with this one? The hilarious 30 Rock star chose to perform the opening number from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s game-changing musical In The Heights. The character she’s playing, Usnavi, is a male Dominican bodega owner who raps. Miscast, indeed.

Jeremy Jordan and Jonathan Groff — ‘Let Me Be Your Star’ from ‘Smash’

Poor Jeremy Jordan. Here he is, just trying to sing a gender-swapped rendition of the big song from his own TV show, and in swoops Jonathan Groff, puffed up over his Anything Goes Miscast triumph from the year before. What’s Smash without a bit of rivalry?

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Raul Esparza — ‘A Boy Like That’ from ‘West Side Story’

These two veteran Broadway stars of Hispanic descent embody two of the most famous Hispanic female roles of all time in this duet. Apart from a few exaggerated facial expressions, they play it totally straight, and it goes from amusing to powerful pretty fast.

Jeremy Jordan — ‘Let It Go’ from ‘Frozen’

Revenge is sweet. In the 2014 edition of the Jordan/Groff saga, Jeremy tries to one-up Jonathan for usurping his Smash performance the year before by stealing the big Frozen number for himself. This is the only version of this song we’d ever willingly listen to.

Tituss Burgess — ‘And I Am Telling You’ from ‘Dreamgirls’

We snuck this one in due to Tituss ruling the world right now, because it’s not actually from Miscast — it’s from Broadway Backwards, another benefit with a similar concept. But come on! It’s the entire “It’s All Over/And I Am Telling You” scene and it is perfection.

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