Kennedy Center Honors 2023: Tonight’s performers and presenters revealed for CBS ceremony

Chris Beachum
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The Kennedy Center Honors selections for 2023 are Billy Crystal, Renee Fleming, Barry Gibb, Queen Latifah and Dionne Warwick. These veteran artists were honored Sunday, December 3, in Washington, D.C. at a ceremony hosted by previous honoree Gloria Estefan (who kicked off the show with her hit song “Get On Your Feet”). CBS and Paramount+ will air the 46th annual ceremony tonight, Wednesday, December 27.

Crystal is an Emmy and Tony Award-winning comedian, actor, producer, writer and director. Fleming is one of the most highly acclaimed singers of our time, performing on the stages of the world’s great opera houses and concert halls. Gibb, of the musical group The Bee Gees, is a nine-time Grammy Award winner and an inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall Of Fame. Latifah is a Grammy and Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated musician, actress, producer, label president, author and entrepreneur. Warwick’s iconic sound set the bar in American pop music by earning more than 60 charted hit songs and selling over 100 million records.

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Based on various online reports we discovered on Sunday night, here is the complete list of performers and presenters to be seen on the two-hour program. Producers might alter the order as presented to the in-person audience. We will continue adding to this article as more details are revealed.

DIONNE WARWICK:
Remarks by Debbie Allen
Remarks by Ego Nwodim
Remarks by Clive Davis
Appearance by Herbie Hancock
Performance by Cynthia Erivo (“Alfie”)
Performance by Chloe Bailey (“Walk on By”)
Performance by Mickey Guyton (“Then Came You”)
Performance by Gladys Knight (“I Say a Little Prayer”)

BILLY CRYSTAL:
Remarks by Meg Ryan
Remarks by Robert De Niro
Remarks by Whoopi Goldberg
Remarks by Rob Reiner
Remarks by Bob Costas
Remarks by Jay Leno
Performance by Lin-Manuel Miranda (original song)

QUEEN LATIFAH:
Remarks by Kerry Washington
Remarks by Missy Elliott
Appearance by the Clark Sisters
Appearance by Van Van
Performances by Yo-Yo, MC Lyte and Monie Love

RENEE FLEMING:
Remarks by Christine Baranski
Remarks by Sigourney Weaver
Performance by Dove Cameron
Performance by Tituss Burgess, Christine Baranski, Susan Graham (“You’ll Never Walk Alone”)
Performance of “Song to the Moon” from Antonín Dvořák’s opera “Rusalka”

BARRY GIBB:
Video tribute by Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, Paul McCartney, Barbra Streisand
Performance by Michael Buble (“How Can You Mend a Broken Heart”)
Performance by Little Big Town (“Lonely Days”)
Performance by Ben Platt (“Nights on Broadway”)
Performance by Ariana DeBose (greatest hits medley)

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