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Meet the 2022 Tony Nominees: CLYDE'S & TAKE ME OUT's Carole Rothman
May 17, 2024
The countdown to the Tony Awards has a officially begun! On June 12, the brightest stars of the 2021-22 season will shine even brighter as they gather at the iconic Radio City Music Hall to celebrate Broadway's biggest night. Leading up to the 75th Annual Tony Awards, BroadwayWorld is getting up close and personal with the nominees. We're studying up on Carole Rothman.
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Hi, I'm Carol Rothman. I'm nominated for Clyde's for Best Play and for Take Me Out for Best Revival
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It is Tony Day and you are here for a double nomination. Yay! How exciting is this, Carol
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Well, it's just thrilling because it's been such a hard time. It's been a time when we haven't
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been able to do what we really love to do and I feel now part of the theater community. We're
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all coming back and for me to have a for second stage to have a Best Play nomination and a Best
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Revival nomination and hey we only did two shows this year on Broadway so I think we're batting
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a thousand. Yeah. And it's very exciting. It's an incredible season you've had here. Clyde's
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is such an incredible play and what Scott Ellis has done with Take Me Out. I was a huge fan of
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the original but there's something about this production that it flies by even faster. I mean
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just what's it been like having both of these shows in second stage this season? Well, you know
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opening the show of Clyde's, which I really believed in as a new play, in the middle of a
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pandemic was incredibly difficult just in terms of, you know, stressful. So I would get a call
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saying so-and-so can't be there tonight or like okay the understudy's going on for this
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and it was just a constant kind of battle. So I think that that was incredibly stressful and
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you know I don't think that's totally gone away now but I think that, you know, Take Me Out is
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here in the springtime. It's about baseball, you know, it's just wonderful and you know the
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the actors are really wonderful and they're a team and so they were really interrupted
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frankly, you know, two years ago and my feeling why I'm so emotional about it is because every
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single one of them came back. The actors, the understudies, the director, obviously the writer
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but you know the stage management, the designers, they all came back after two years because they
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were committed to the play and because they were committed to each other. They're a great team
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But they were also committed to second stage because no one does work like second stage does
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How many years have second stage been around? 43. That's incredible. No seriously, I mean I just want to hear that. That's an incredible number
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when you think of, you know, like Circle Rep was something I thought would live on forever
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I did too. And now the garage down, you know, on 7th Avenue is a restaurant. I look at myself
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you saw Lanford Wilson plays there. I saw Jeff Daniels. I saw all these incredible actors
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just starting out. 43 years for second stage with all your different homes
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and now you have a gorgeous Broadway home. I mean it must be so thrilling. It is thrilling. You know being on Broadway is a really special experience. I think it's because
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it impacts the community in terms of economically and you know just it's a very strong community
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and it's a great brand. I think Broadway is a great brand and I think people come to New York
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to see Broadway and I hope they come to see Take Me Out but I think that they're really connected
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to the experience of being in a Broadway theater. You know the other great thing about Take Me Out is I mean because of the notoriety of some of the
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people that are in it, known from film and television, many people will be going to see
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live theater for the first time because they idolize these people from another medium and
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they're like oh my gosh this is what live theater is. That is so true because you know and I never really expected it but there you have you know
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson who everybody's seen in Modern Family Forever and he's on stage and it's
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like yeah or you know Jesse Williams from Grey's Anatomy you know he's not actually a doctor
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He's actually an actor and he can be he's playing a baseball player totally different
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So you know Patrick Adams same thing you know people know him from television but
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he comes out on stage and he transforms and he speaks to the audience and the audience
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sees him as the character and that's what theater's about right
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