Watch Oscar Winner & Broadway-Bound Jennifer Hudson Literally Bring a Smash Revival to the Oscars

At the 87th Annual Academy Awards, Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson took the stage to perform during the ceremony’s in memoriam segment. It was a touching moment, but we couldn’t help from absolutely freaking out that the song she sang was from Smash—that Broadway-themed NBC drama whose cancelation we question every day. Hudson wailed on “I Can’t Let Go,” the ballad from the fictional Hit List that her Smash character Veronica Moore belted out in the series’ second season. Hudson will head to the Great White Way this fall in The Color Purple, but while we wait, here’s her belting out the Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman ballad one more time. This one’s for you, Kyle Bishop.