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Arriving on stage in a sparkly tuxedo dress, she rearranged her hits Espresso and Please Please Please in a jazzy big band style, and even delivered a fleet-footed tap dance sequence.

I have faked more smiles in a tuxedo than Daniel Craig’s entire run as James Bond.

As the audience cheers, the atmosphere becomes even more electric as Carey — wearing a gold metallic tuxedo jacket, a throwback to Old Hollywood glamour — emerges onstage to a resounding chorus of “Drew! Drew! Drew!”

Black was very much the new black as stars posed for pictures in Los Angeles, with a huge number of the nominees wearing dark dresses and tuxedos.

Four weeks later, on the day of the concert, Hulthage purchased a tuxedo but had yet to change as he helped set up chairs for the strings in the transept of Westwood United Methodist Church.