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Amanda Green nominated for my lyrics for Mr. Saturday Night
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Here we are, it's Tony Day. How excited are you? I'm so excited
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Is it all surreal? I mean... Ah, no, it's not surreal, it's wonderful
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I am really trying to be in the moment and enjoy it
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It's truly such an honor to be nominated for a Tony Award
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It's such a thrill. I'm just going to try to enjoy every second of it
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Good for you. What's given you the most joy of working on this musical
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Seeing it happen. We have been working on it for seven years
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And gone from, as every show does, gone from 29-hour reading to 29-hour reading to a two-week workshop
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And we're like, we're there! And then cut to two and a half years later or three years later
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So just the fact that we've stuck together. And you have to be so tenacious to make something come to Broadway
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And our working process, I feel like we all worked together and came up with the show that we're all happy with
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The creative team and then us working with the actors. And just the fact that it coalesced into something that I'm really proud of
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and I think makes people happy. This reminded me of old school Broadway creating
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When I heard what Jason Robert Brown told me. He was like, can you imagine
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And like Billy Crystal would enter the room and he'd throw us this stuff. And then we'd go back and write stuff
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It's like what your dad did out of town on a show or something. Absolutely
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So it must have been so incredible to work with Billy Crystal and the book writers
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Yeah, well Billy Crystal, Lowell Gantz, and Babalu Mandel are master craftsmen of comedy
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So it was a thrill to work with people who are so deeply funny and smart and hardworking
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If it's not funny the first time, they rewrite it 12 times, 14 times
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until they know it's in the pocket. Jason is a genius. I was thrilled to get the opportunity to work with him
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He's so funny and so smart that I felt like the two of us together
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would always be able to figure out what we needed to do. We did have moments
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I think we were in rehearsal and about to go into the theater and one day Jason came up to me and he was like
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we need to write another song for Billy. And we'd had the same song for four or five years
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And I was like, oh, you're right. And that night we wrote a new song
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We played it for him the next day at rehearsal. So it was that kind of experience
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It's just like your dad. It is. You have to be able to produce under the gun
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This show is bringing so much joy to so many people. I've had the opportunity to see you twice in New York
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And Billy Crystal and that entire cast has the audience in the palm of their hand
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That must make you feel so incredible just to watch how touching your show is
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and what it means to audiences. Billy Crystal, watching him, I've always been a fan
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But then I laugh at rehearsal. I laugh the first time he says something, the 10th time, the 15th time
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He's so deeply funny in his bones. And to watch him know how to work with an audience
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and to ride something and to figure it out and to always, he's always finding new things
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It's really thrilling to watch. And a cast that is just as brilliant as he is
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So it's been wonderful. © BF-WATCH TV 2021
