The magical energy of theater to vary individuals’s lives perpetually was movingly mentioned by many 2022 Tony Award winners within the presentation’s press room final weekend.
Cynthia Erivo, who received a Tony Award in 2016 for main actress within the musical “The Shade Purple,” … [+]
Jessie Tyler Ferguson, who received a Tony for finest featured actor within the play Take Me Out, stated he noticed the unique manufacturing of this play “as a younger homosexual man 20 years in the past.”
Profitable a Tony “imply a lot to me,” Ferguson stated, noting that Denis O’Hare’s efficiency as supervisor Mason Marzac, who he portrays within the present manufacturing, “sticks with me nonetheless to at the present time. I like that I’m now entering into these very large sneakers” and likewise talking to “a complete new group of children which might be a part of that group.”
Michael R. Jackson, who received a Tony for finest e book of his musical a couple of Black,homosexual author of a musical, A Unusual Loop, stated, “that I used to be capable of proceed to work on one thing over virtually a 20 12 months interval and with a bunch of different individuals who additionally felt that manner, that we have been then capable of take that story to a stage and share that with audiences that additionally felt that manner, to me that spoke to the facility of artwork and theater to carry individuals collectively, to let everyone type of in on the key that we’re not alone, that there’s extra that unites us than divides us.
Barbara Whitman, a producer of A Unusual Loop, which additionally received a Tony for finest musical, stated, “The final musical I did was Enjoyable Dwelling and it gave me the braveness to do A Unusual Loop. The extra you do it the extra you get the couragem and so I discovered lots with Enjoyable Dwelling. I utilized a variety of these classes to A Unusual Loop and now I can take the teachings and apply them going ahead.”
Phylicia Rashad, who received a Tony for her finest featured actress within the play Skeleton Crew, known as performing “a really compassionate artwork. Performing is knowing one other human being and embodying that—that’s what performing is.”
And Joaquina Kalukango, who received a Tony for her main position within the musical Paradise Sq., stated she simply stored “considering of the ladies who got here earlier than me, I preserve considering of Melba Moore, preserve considering of Jennifer Holliday. I consider all these ladies who paved the way in which, even Phylicia Rashad. It’s an honor to be a part of the group. I like the group a lot, we’ve all actually needed to embrace one another as a result of this has been a extremely robust 12 months. We’re simply so joyful to be right here and to be current and to inform tales once more.”
Marianne Elliott, who received a Tony for finest course of the Stephen Sondheim musical, Firm, touchingly admitted she had been “talking to Steve as a result of it’s fairly terrifying being right here. I’ve been attempting to channel him all day. If I’m fortunate sufficient to win, I’m simply going to speak to him, and I simply stored on eager about his lovely smiling, heat, beautiful face, which I noticed three days earlier than he died.”
