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Hi, I'm Paula Vogel. I am the playwright of How I Learned to Drive that has been nominated for the Best Revival category
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How excited are you to be sitting here? It's Tony Day! I'm out of my mind with excitement
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We have been so hungry to see each other after the last two years that there's just a longing and a vibrancy in the air today
0:29
Yeah. I mean, we've missed all of this. You know, there are many mediums, but there's nothing like the theater community
0:35
That's right. There's nothing like it. I was just saying to Mary Louise Parker, oh my God, you know what I realized? I even missed the flop sweat
0:43
Did you ever think you'd come back and go, I really missed first preview, you know, gripping the arms of my chair, but I'm so happy to be back
0:53
To have this production back, this new production, but with the same director, the same three stars, I mean, it's mind blowing and how it's affecting audiences
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Yeah. And to see, I mean, Johanna Day, who's so extraordinary, the layers that she's now bringing to the play, Mark Brokaw, who just said, we're not going to do a revival
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We're going to do a reexamination. And he he was just steadfast after the first rehearsal
1:25
And this is the only time in my life I relaxed. They were so brilliant around the table doing the reading
1:32
I'm like, Vogo, you have nothing to do other than wear the sandwich board on the street saying, come see how I learned to drive
1:39
But it must make you feel so great to see how much joy this play, like many people coming to see the show for the very first time
1:46
It's changing your life. You know, I am so thrilled to see the younger audiences right now coming
1:53
People come out of the theater and they say, you know, they look to me like they're 27 years old and they'll say, oh, I did Peck in high school
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I'm like, how is that possible? But I'm really enjoying the conversations between generations on this play
2:09
Yeah, it's very moving to me
