Right now “A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow” is being performed. This must be the first time in Oscar history that a song is being performed in character.
(ooh wait, I forgot about the opening number in “Beauty and the Beast” which I believe was a practice run in the preparation of the Broadway version of the show)
Now “Bellville Rondez-vous” is being performed. Now I’m sure this is the first use of a vacuum cleaner as a musical instrument at the Oscars (A bicycle may have been used before when the cast of “Stomp” performed.)