• Jonathan Groff carried out "Past the Sea" from the stage musical Simply in Time in the course of the 2025 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
• Groff turned towards Bowen Yang, who was seated within the viewers, and introduced him out to bop.
• The actor ended the efficiency with a candy kiss on the SNL star's hand, amid altering lyrics to the track.

Jonathan Groff put a queer twist on Bobby Darin's iconic track "Past the Sea" as he danced with Saturday Night time Stay star Bowen Yang on the 2025 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

The Simply in Time Broadway star fronted a efficiency section throughout NBC's reside protection of the annual parade on Thursday, throughout which he barely shifted the legendary tune's lyrics as he introduced Yang out to bop with him amid the quantity.

"Someplace past the ocean, someplace ready for me, my lover stands on golden sands and watches the ships that go crusing," Groff, who performs Darin within the musical manufacturing, sang earlier than pausing to convey out Yang, who sat on risers close by.

"Let's hear it for Bowen Yang!" Groff mentioned as Yang joined him, earlier than he continued singing: "Someplace past the ocean, he's there looking forward to me," altering the pronouns of the unique track from "she" to "he" as Yang joined him, and Groff kissed him on the hand earlier than twirling the SNL actor round.

"If I might fly like birds on excessive and straight to his arms, I'd go crusing," Groff continued, letting Yang sit again down as he continued with the efficiency, which additionally included numbers by Trendy Household actress Sarah Hyland and Sadie Dickerson.

Earlier this yr, Groff performed "Beyond the Sea" on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the place he retained the track's unique lyrics, utilizing "she" and "her" in the course of the set.

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The track, initially written by Charles Trenet within the Nineteen Forties, was popularized by Darin in 1959, with "Past the Sea" turning into one among Darin's signature tunes after its rise in recognition.
After the efficiency, lately reunited In the present day cohosts Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb interviewed the Simply in Time forged, who lately obtained a Grammy nomination for the present's forged recording.

"It's unimaginable, all of us dreamed of being on the parade, all of us watched the parade rising up," Tony nominee Groff advised Kotb and Guthrie. "So, to be a part of the present and to be right here this morning is unimaginable."

Simply in Time, a jukebox musical, follows the lifetime of Darin, as advised by Groff in 2025, earlier than the Mindhunter actor then travels again to the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties for the retelling of Darin's life and profession.

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Although his profession included a number of albums and hit songs, together with the No. 1 single "Mack the Knife," Darin died in 1973 at age 37 after present process surgical procedure to repair points together with his coronary heart.

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