--- --- # Neil Patrick Harris and James Corden Brought Their A-Game to This Sing-Off by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Updated: Dec 13, 2023 1:42 PM UTCPublished: Jan 10, 2017 4:45 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Updated: Dec 13, 2023 1:42 PM UTCPublished: Jan 10, 2017 4:45 PM UTC **Correction appended, Jan. 11, 2017** Neil Patrick Harris stopped by _The Late Late Show_ on Monday night, but there was one catch—he wasn’t actually invited. The [_Series of Unfortunate Events_ star ](http://time.com/4556831/series-of-unfortunate-events-count-olaf/?iid=sr-link4)crashed the show to challenge Corden to a Broadway show tune showdown. Apparently Harris felt that Corden and his [Carpool Karaoke sing-alongs](http://time.com/4545657/lady-gaga-james-corden-carpool-karaoke/?iid=sr-link3) were starting to eclipse him as Broadway’s biggest fan, so he brought The Filharmonic to challenge Corden to a Broadway sing-off. The Tony Awards hosts battled it out with [songs](http://time.com/4606912/neil-patrick-harris-doogie-howser-song/?iid=sr-link2) from their favorite Broadway musicals, including hits from Great White Way classics like _Guys and Dolls_ and _Gypsy_, tear-jerking ballads like “Being Alive” from _Company_ and Corden’s stirring rendition of “On My Own” from _Les Misérables._ As the competition heated up, the stars went for sex appeal with Corden bringing “All That Jazz” from _Chicago,_ while Harris brought his A Game with a reprise of his [Tony Award](http://time.com/3718151/oscars-2015-neil-patrick-harris-birdman-underwear/?iid=sr-link7)\-winning performance of “Sugar Daddy” from _Hedwig and the Angry Inch_. To end the Broadway battle, Harris and Corden teamed up for a song from Broadway’s biggest musical—Lin-Manuel Miranda’s _Hamilton,_ trading verses on “My Shot,” which is as close as many people will ever get to actually seeing the musical. **Correction:** The original version of this story misidentified the accompanying musical group in this video. The name of the group is The Filharmonic. Neil Patrick Harris and James Corden Had A Broadway Sing Off ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4630094/neil-patrick-harris-james-corden-sing/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4630094/neil-patrick-harris-james-corden-sing/"},"headline":"Neil Patrick Harris and James Corden Brought Their A-Game to This Sing-Off","datePublished":"2017-01-10T16:45:38.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T13:42:37.000Z","description":"It gets very jazzy","url":"https://time.com/4630094/neil-patrick-harris-james-corden-sing/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","broadway","Neil Patrick Harris","Late late show","james corden"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4630094/neil-patrick-harris-james-corden-sing/","name":"Neil Patrick Harris and James Corden Brought Their A-Game to This Sing-Off"}}]}] ```