"This is the Super Bowl for people who don't know what the Super Bowl is."
-James Corden

Throughout the past weeks, we have tried to figure out how to survive "Hamiltony's," learned why we should give a damn about Hamilton, why no one cares about plays, why the Tony's are important to the theatre world, then agreed that Sound Design is still the biggest snub at the awards and named off a few of the musicals that will most likely never become movies, all to lead up to the big night!

Now, I know I predicted that there wasn't going to be much promotion for "Hamilton" for the Tony's and everything would be for the other productions, as they might not get as much air time during the actual Tony's as "Hamilton." Yeah, I was dead wrong.

Literally right before the Tony's aired, there was a "60 Minutes" special about it on CBS, the same channel that hosts the Tony's every year. Not to mention the opening ad right before the Tony's listed off a bunch of celebrities and "Hamilton." Yeah, that's right. No other shows were listed with it, just "Hamilton."

The Tony's were definitely marred by the recent Orlando attacks with a majority of the attendees wearing specially-made ribbons, "Hamilton" removed all guns from their performances during the show, and lots mentioning of the incident during acceptance speeches and the opening speech.

After James Corden's opening dedication speech, the night took a slightly happier note, with jokes about #TonysSoBlack, "Hamilton" everywhere with the occasional commercial break, and how Donald Trump would most likely want to build a wall around the Tony awards because of the diversity.

This was followed by a hilarious opening number, with nods to "Tuck Everlasting," "Les Miserables," "Phantom of the Opera," "Lion King," "Grease," "Sweeney Todd," "Jesus Christ Superstar," "Sound of Music," "Music Man," "Sunset Boulevard," "Guys and Dolls," "West Side Story," "Annie," "Cats," "Chorus Line," "Evita," "Fiddler on the Roof," "Funny Face," "Gypsy" and "42nd Street." There were also nods to Corden's talk show and Oprah. She was in the audience and he asked her if he ruined the Tony's with that rant. He then showed the all the actors that are nominees for the multiple acting categories in musicals.

In between the opening number and and first presentation of an award, we cut to a bald Neil Patrick Harris. Harris is perhaps best noted for hosting the Tony's for multiple years, winning a Tony for his portrayal of Hedwig in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," and a little role known as Barney Stinson on "How I Met Your Mother." It is speculated that the normally-blond man is bald for his role as Count Olaf in Netflix's upcoming show, "A Series of Unfortunate Events."

Jake Gyllenhaal presented the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play. The award went to Jane Houdyshell for her role in "The Humans."

Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber introduced his musical, "School of Rock: The Musical." The scene featured was the scene where he convinces his students to form a rock band. It was basically the exact same scene from the movie, but with music. Anyone who knows me knows I look for camera and stage hands in live performances, so it was easy to notice the camera guy for the drum close-ups that was obvious in long shots. You could see the block behind the drums set up for them to hide them long shots, if the operator gets behind it in time. A line from the song is, "we're not here to win, we're came here to rock," which was suitable for this season, as everyone besides "Hamilton" was there to have a good time and not win.

Right before the break we have a "Ham for Ham" explanation and are told everyone from the shows would be performing outside the theatre right before commercial breaks. To set this off, there was a performance from Andrew Lloyd Webber on tambourine, Sara Bareilles on keyboard and Steve Martin on banjo. They should probably start a band for Broadway composers. I bet it would make millions.

When we came back, we saw the cast of "Shuffle Along" perform a song from "Guys and Dolls" outside, while inside James Corden "hit" on Oprah.

Aaron Tveit and a blonde woman who's name I did not catch (that would be a recurring theme, how many blonde women were there at the Tony's?) presented the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical. The winner was, no shocker, "Hamilton''s" Renée Elise Goldsberry. Her acceptance speech, at first, sounded like she was going to announce she was pregnant on live TV.

"Shuffle Along" then came along to perform a big tap number, showing just how big the snub was for Audra McDonald, who holds the record for most Tony's won. She's basically the black Meryl Streep of theatre.

Keeping with the "Ham for Ham" right before and after commercial breaks, "School of Rock" performed a number from another Webber musical, "Phantom of the Opera."

As usual, costume design of a play and musical were awarded off-screen during commercials. "Eclipsed" and "Hamilton" won, respectively. It should be noted that quite a few musicals only received one nomination and "Hamilton" winning this award insured that the other shows would receive none this award season.

Patina Miller and Daniel Dae Kim presented Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical. Winner was Daveed Diggs, making this another win for "Hamilton." At this point, it should be noted that "Hamilton" had swept every category it was in.

Carole King, writer of the musical "Beautiful," presented the awards for Best Score. The winner was "Hamiilton." Lin-Manuel Miranda had previously won for "In the Heights." His acceptance speech has since gone viral, as it was about his love for his wife and reflected on the recent Orlando shootings.

Meg Ryan then introduced "She Loves Me." The big part of this performance is the controversy of Meg Ryan's appearance. In the performance, that one chick from "30 Rock" literally fell into a split and several other leggy moves, one of the main characters was not at all lit during the beginning of the performance of his solo, and Laura Benanti laminated about ice cream.

This time, on the knockoff version of "Ham for Ham," "Fiddler on the Roof" sang "There's No Business Like Show Business" from Irving Berlin's "Annie Get Your Gun." After the commercial break, the cast of "She Loves Me" performed "Cabaret" from "Cabaret."

Lucy Liu and Jesse Tyler Ferguson presented the award for Best Direction of a Play. The winner was Ivan Van Hovae for Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge." They also presented Best Direction of a Musical. Winner was "Hamilton," again. At this point, "Hamilton" had still not lost in a single category that it was nominated in.

In a hilarious little anecdote moment, James Corden posted a video of Josh Groban in "Fiddler on the Roof" when he was younger, to which Groban responded with a "oh, that just happened on the Tony's" and a thanks to art education. This was a great little setup for the next performance, which was "Fiddler on the Roof." During the performance there was the first real "oh my God they actually did that" moment, with the Fiddler literally flying over the stage while playing his fiddle. The company then did a solemn "Sunrise, Sunset" followed with the "Wedding Dance" without the iconic bottle dance.

"Bright Star" was the next one up to perform in the "Ham for Ham" sequence.

Then came Best Scenic Design for Play, which went to "The Humans." And the next shocker was that "Hamilton" finally lost in one of the categories to "She Loves Me" for Best Scenic Design of a Musical. This meant that "Hamilton" would not break the record for most Tony's won by a musical (the record holder is "The Producers" with 12 wins). The most they could do would have been tie with "The Producers."

Mark Reynolds and another woman (whose name I did not catch, nor could I find) Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play. The winner was Reed Birney for "The Humans."

Then "Bright Star" performed with writers Steve Martin and Edie Brackhell. And in case you didn't know already, "Bright Star" is based on a true story.

Once again on "Ham for Ham," "The Color Purple" performed "The Lion King," specifically, "The Circle of Life."

Then when we got back to the actual award part of the show it is revealed that Best Lighting Design of a Play is a "Long Day Journeys Into the Night." And on the flip side, it was revealed the front runner "Hamilton" won Best Lighting Design of a Musical.

James Corden then revealed during a Oprah Winfrey style monologue that everyone was in "Law and Order." It was literally "You were in L and O, you were in L and O, you were in L and O, you were all in L andO, everyone was in L and O." This, of course, led to a great opening for Oprah as she came out to introduce "The Color Purple." Oprah had originally starred in the critically acclaimed movie of the same name. "The Color Purple" marked the first performance to get a standing ovation, though whether or not that was for the cast or standout Cynthia Erivo's heartfelt solo can be debated....what am I kidding? It was for her!

Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones then come out to talk about their history with the American Theatre Wing and how it has spanned seven decades for the both of them. Nathan Lane, the original voice of Timon in "The Lion King" presented the award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play. The winner was Jessica Lange, of "American Horror Story" fame, for her role in "Long Day's Journey Into the Night." Once again, there was a mention of Orlando shooting.

Emilio Estefan introduced "On Your Feet!" a show based on him and his was wife, Gloria Estefan. Of course, with the current political climate, Estefan made a joke about the whole cast having papers. Gloria Estefan appeared with her stage counterpart, though it should be noted that this did not appear to be the actress who originated the role back when the show opened last year. Perhaps the part that brought most smiles to people's faces where when the little boys in the cast got Lin-Manuel Miranda and a few other audience members to get up and dance, quite literally getting them on their feet.

Once again we cut back to the "Ham for Ham" knockoff to the revival cast of "Spring Awakening" singing and, in some cases, singing, "Hair" from "Hair."

The Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre went to Sheldon Harnick and Marshall W. Mason.

As I predicted, we had Carpool Karaoke. James Corden and Lin-Manuel Miranda sang some very hilarious renditions of hit songs from "Hamilton." Then they picked up Audra McDonald, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jane Krakowski, each taking the roles of Cosette, Marius and Eponine respectively as they belted out "One Day More" from "Les Miserables."

Next was Best Performance of a Leading Actor in a Play and it went to Frank Langella for "The Father." He stated on his late career win that "there is no late in an actor's career. There is only now." In reference to the Orlando shooting and his brother dying he said, "when something bad happens we have three choices: we let it define us, we let it destroy us, or we let it strengthen us."

In a nice change of events, a deaf performer, with the help of an interpreter, introduced "Spring Awakening," which featured musicians, deaf actors and translators performing on one stage.

And finally, we got the actual Ham performing "Ham for Ham" with a little number from "Rent" called "No Day But Today." "Hamilton" has many roots in "Rent," most notably with Goldsberry, who was the last Mimi on Broadway. At this point, "Hamilton" had the potential to tie with "The Producers" if they continued winning absolutely everything. Best Orchestrations and Book of a Musical went to "Hamilton."

Other notable awards, Diane Lane presented Best Revival of a Play, which went to "A View From the Bridge."

The Obamas gave a surprise appearance and they talked about when Miranda debuted the opening number of "Hamilton" and stated that at the time, the idea seemed ridiculous. "We all laughed, but who's laughing now?" Notable points of the performance were that the muskets were removed last minute out of respect to those that died in the Orlando shootings, emphasis on the line "immigrants, we get the job done," it was the only performance to be bleeped, and despite being a huge success, they did not receive a full standing ovation, only small groups of the audience stood to applaud, as opposed to the whole audience standing after "The Color Purple" was done performing.

Winner of Best Play went to "The Humans," which took home the most awards that night.

The original actress who played the female lead in the movie version of "The Waitress" introduced Jessie Mueller and the cast of "The Waitress" which showed off some pretty awesome choreography. However, "Hamilton" won Best Choreography.

Then came a hilarious amount of parodies: Donald Trump in "The Book of Moron," ("Hello, my name is Donald Trump and I would like to build a wall through your house") and "A Clinton Line" with Hillary Clinton ("I really need this job, oh God I need this job. I gotta have this job.") However, despite still technically being in the race, there was no Bernie Sanders mention.

We then had a surprise when Bebe Neuwirth appeared and reminded us that "Chicago" is now the longest running American musical on Broadway.

Azuza Aduba and Sean Hayes presented Best Revival of a Musical with the winner being "The Color Purple." A funny tidbit was that right before they announced the winner, a man in black ran out to put a mic in front of them and then at the end the same man ran out to get a mic and literally made a giant circle around the group to take off stage. It was hilarious and fun to track him running out and around to get the mic where it needed to go.

Chita Rivera then brought us back with a more somber note as she introduced the "In Memoriam" piece. It is interesting that the year before had seen an epic rendition of "You'll Never Walk Alone," while this year it was a more subdued and smaller version of "Seasons of Love" played by a string quartet. Notable names featured included: Doris Roberts, Patty Duke, Maureen O'Hara, Kyle Jean Baptiste, Dean Jones, Elizabeth Swadors, Alan Rickman, David Bowie and Roger Rees.

We, once again, saw Neil Patrick Harris, who made a joke about doing a thing in Vancouver and not replacing the male lead in "King and I" as an explanation for his bald head. He presented the award of Best Performance of a Leading Actor in a Musical to Leslie Odom Jr. for "Hamilton." Mr. Burr, sir, received a standing ovation when he accepted his award.

Audra McDonald presented Best Performance of a Leading Actress in a Musical to Cynthia Erivo for "The Color Purple." When she got up on stage she said, "Look, Mommy, look!" And I'm not going to lie, when she was announced my boyfriend and I both jumped in the air and laughed maniacally because this win for "The Color Purple" guaranteed that "Hamilton" would not even tie with "The Producers" for most wins.

Then the almighty Barbra Streisand arrived. She spoke of the Orlando shooting and the tragedy that it is. She was there to present the award for Best Musical and joked that she wore the right outfit, as the winner was "Hamilton!"

As a result, "Hamilton" did not tie with "The Producers" for most Tony wins, but placed second. They did help break other records: for the first time in history, there was a person of color to win every acting award in the musical genre. Take that, Oscars! "She Loves Me" and "The Color Purple" are the only musicals that went up against Hamilton and won.

Overall, it was a memorable night for the Tony's. What were your reactions to the Tony's? Sound off in the comments below!