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Meet the 2022 Tony Nominees: GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY's Mare Winningham
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 Mare Winningham!
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Hi, my name is Mare Winningham and I'm up for Best Actress in a Musical for Girl from the North Country
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It's Tony Day! It's Tony Day! How excited are you? This is a big one
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Because we've been working on this for four years and we opened three times
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And we went through the pandemic and everything that that entailed for everyone who loves the theatre
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So we're doubling down here, we're tripling down on joy and happiness to see this culminate in these seven nominations
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It's really thrilling. It's so interesting because the journey you're showing, some other shows have been on it
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You work on a show, you've done so many beautiful shows, you rehearse for six weeks or whatever, you preview and you open. Yes
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This is a whole different journey. Yes, and we didn't know if we would all stick together, we didn't know if we'd come back
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And our producers said, oh we will, and you will, and they assured us and then they made it come true
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And we still, I've never worked on anything even close to this amount of time
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And I've learned that marinating is a good thing. It's hard to let go
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It's easy to start up again. You learn more about who you're playing and who you're playing with
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And the songs get richer and the scenes get deeper and there's more love
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And I think we were the last show to close before the shutdown
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And we had recorded, we'd opened and we'd gotten all the love that you could ever want
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And then we did our cast album on Monday and Broadway shut down on Wednesday
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So it was really a shocking, surreal kind of thing. And then of course, more importantly, what was happening to the world
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And so your heart was breaking. Can it be overstated what we've all been through? No
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So this becomes more beautiful and more meaningful than an award. Your show touches audiences in such a beautiful way
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I have your producers here. He sits through your show and he's crying like 35 times every time he goes to this
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What it means to you, the way this musical is touching audiences
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Yes, because we have something very special here. Because our playwright is one of the great playwrights of this time
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And I think we'll go down in history. So the book is very, very special and unique
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And so the fact that these Dylan songs have been set in a really kind of holy way
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the way he chose them. And the fact that these characters are just trying to figure out how to get through another day
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And then when they sing, we hear what's going on in their souls
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And I think that's what makes people cry. That's what makes me cry
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To know when these perfunctory day-to-day, get me through this world right now
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I hate everything and I want to die. And then you sing and you hear the depth and the beauty of what a soul is experiencing
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And he's such a great writer. His sense of humor is very tart
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So it's a very funny experience as well to sit in the audience of this play
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So it checks all my boxes. Everything I want as an audience and then as an actor
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It's my dream. This is just being back on Broadway and being one of the shows that we opened together
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What that means to you? I think to be in the class of 2022
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And we said this last September before we had to go through another shutdown
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We've opened three times. We're a part of history and that's the macro
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And the micro is just I always wanted to work in the theater in New York since I was a child
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And now I'm continuing to work through this historic time when people literally jump for joy
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At the idea of walking into a darkened theater again and sitting side by side with our fellow man
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And letting something wash over us. It's holy
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