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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
