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I'm Charlie Rosen. I was nominated for Best Orchestrations for A Strange Lube
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It's Tony Day. It is. What's today like for you? Well, you know, this is particularly exciting
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because I was lucky enough to be nominated last year as well. But last year obviously was a very
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special situation and we didn't have all of these events that lead up to the Tony Awards
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as a result of the world circumstance. And so to be here and be a part of this season and this year
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feels really like we're back. This is it. This is the return. Here's the press. There's a month
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of lead up. It's great. It's like the real deal now. It's amazing. What does this Tony nomination
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mean to you coming for A Strange Lube? The thing about A Strange Lube is it's a show that's so
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near and dear to my heart. And to play a small part in realizing the music for a show that just
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speaks its truth so authentically and without compromise and without fear and so honestly is
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like just a huge thrill career wise and musically. It's a very, very fulfilling thing to be a part of
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And just the way, I mean, Broadway was never on the scope early on. Everybody hoped that it would
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eventually come here, but that wasn't the dream for this show early on. It was just putting it on
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How this is affecting audiences in such a beautiful way, what it means to you
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You know, the world finally caught up with Michael R. Jackson. That's really all it is
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He's been speaking his truth for years. He's been writing how he wants to write and how he needs to
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write. And people finally caught wind of it. And it took a lot of a journey for the American theater
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to finally figure it out and get there. But we're here now. And you're wearing a Tony pin
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Indeed I am. Number two, baby
