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Meet the 2022 Tony Nominees: FOR COLORED GIRLS...'s Kenita R. Miller
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. Today we're studying up on Kenita R. Miller!
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Hi, my name is Kenita Miller, and I'm up for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Colored Girls
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It is Tony Day. How excited are you, Mama, to be here? Oh my goodness, I am. Like, I feel like I'm
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outside of my body. I feel like I am floating up past the clouds, in the stars, and you know
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in the different galaxies. I am just so overwhelmed with joy. I've wanted this moment for so long
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and I'm still like, please don't let this be a joke. Don't let this be a game
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You know, it feels incredible. Yeah. I mean, what a journey this show has been on
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and you're getting ready to have a baby at the same time, which is incorporated into the role
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that you're playing in the show. Yeah, it's quite incredible to be like, you know, creating
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a narrative and also creating a life at the same time, and she reminds me every show that she is
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there, you know, especially the bigger that I get. It's like, if you look, you will be
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if she's moving right now, you will be able to see her shift. She's like, she's taking up all
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the real estate in there, so she's about to get evicted very soon. It's going to happen very soon
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Yes, like in a matter of weeks. I am due May 30th, you know, and I still feel incredible
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and I'm sorry because I feel like I'm on the brink of getting emotional, very overwhelmed, you know
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but yeah, it's something to have this reminder with her movement that somebody is always there
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with you when I'm on one of my favorite places to be, which is on stage, you know. This is a gift
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that I just could have never imagined. Yeah, I mean, she's going to be a theater baby. Yeah, I mean
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she's treading the boards with mama eight times a week already. Look, I hope she has some kind of
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love for it. I mean, watch her end up being like a veterinarian or something, which will be fine
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We'll be those two, right? But you know, me, myself, and her papa are kind of in the arts, so I would love to think it's
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going to seep through in some way. With the two of you in there, it's a no-brainer. Yeah
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and just to give him a little bit of a shout out, you know, he did the music for Clydes
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so to find out that they got a nomination as well is very, very exciting for that group, you know
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I thought Clydes was a beautiful play as well. I did too. You're wearing a Tony pin. I am. I am
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I can't believe I'm sitting here with you right now, you know, and wearing this pin. I took a
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picture out in front of a big, you know, big Tony, and I'm like, oh, what is life right now
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Just trying to absorb all of it, you know, trying to challenge what it means to appreciate
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because the gratitude is real. The gratitude is so real. Yeah. What's given you the most joy of being a part of The Colored Girls
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The group of women are really special, and to be a first-time mother
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just the moment where they lay their hands, you know, on me, on her, you know, it just
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and aside from being on the stage, like, whatever you feel, and I would hope that you feel how we
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feel about each other, even offstage, like, it's, it doesn't stop. The love is overflowing
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and I think that's invaluable, especially in a creative space, like, that love is genuine
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So I, you know, I'm, I will take them with me forever, especially speaking these words
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you know, and bringing ourselves to them. They're very, all very specific and different energies
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and I just, to watch them every night, and then to go, okay, my turn is, is something that I'm
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like, what's going to top this? I look forward to seeing what's going to top this, because it's
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top this, because it's going to have some big shoes to fill
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