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Joaquina Calucango and I'm up for Best Actress for Paradise Square
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It is Tony Day. I have to tell you, you blew my mind in this show. I was one of the first
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people on their feet during your second act number. I mean, how excited are you to be
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here today? Oh, God, I'm so excited. This is incredible. It means everything
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I mean, this, I call this the little musical that could. I fell in love with this very
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early on. You bring so much joy to audience members. What that means to you
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I'm one, I'm a huge champion of original stories, and so this story specifically was important
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It's a New York story, and telling it on Broadway for our community and for people to come see
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it and be as incredibly moved as they are is, there's nothing that beats this. This
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is the reason why we do theater, really, truly. When you see people standing on their feet in the middle of the show, for you, when you
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stop the show, how that makes you feel? Well, the great thing is I can't see them because the lights are blinding. It would
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freak me out. But you hear them. I hear it. I feel it. And it's, that energy, it's amazing. It hits you like a big wave
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And just how much joy you're bringing to audiences, what that means to you with this show
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We need joy. We want to bring joy. I think we've all had some really tough years, and
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I think theater can move that nail in any little bit that we possibly can, so if they're
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enjoying it and coming back, I'm happy to be a part of that joy, for sure
