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Hi, my name is Gabby Beans. I'm nominated for lead actress in a play and I'm in
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The Skin of Our Teeth at Lincoln Center Theater. It is Tony Day. How excited are you? You look gorgeous
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Thank you. I'm beyond excited. This is a dream come true. I mean, I'm feeling all
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the things. It just, it's incredible. What's it been like working on this gorgeous production of The Skin of Our Teeth
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It's been absolutely incredible, challenging. I mean, the part is huge, the play is huge
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but being able to meet that challenge and be held with such care and attention by Liliana
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and all of the incredible members of our team, I feel like I'm a new person
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You heard about this nomination, best actress in a play, the Tonys. I mean, was it mind blowing
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Absolutely. It was absolutely crazy. I mean, the night before I was having trouble sleeping
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and then I was like, you know what, I'm just going to sleep through it. And so I just put
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my alarm for 9.30. Of course I wasn't able to sleep that late. I just decided to have
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a normal morning, do the dishes, wash my face. And then around 9.45 I was like, let me check
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my phone. And I saw a lot of calls from my manager and I was like, okay, I guess this
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is happening. It must be so incredible that this production is touching such a young audience being introduced
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to the theatre for the first time. What that means to you? It is, that means the world to me. I grew up in Germany and so we would go to London
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and I would see shows at the National Theatre and they were doing productions like this, you know, like Mother Courage or of Restoration plays and stuff like this, revivals of old
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plays that were enriched by these incredibly colossal talented British actors. And it
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feels like, you know, I'm not to call myself colossally talented, but it feels like this
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kind of work is not something that's done a lot in this country and so to be able to
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be part of that tradition is hugely validating and wonderful to me
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You're wearing a Tony pin. I am. It's crazy. It's cool, right? Yeah
