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Tony Marion Puts the BROADWAY FASHION SPOTLIGHT on Derek Klena!
Nov 9, 2022
Tony Award-nominee Antonio R. Marion (Big Fish, Evita, Ghost) will host a new web-series with Hollywood style expert Erin McSherry (Jesse Tyler Ferguson, 50 Cent, Sofia Vergara), along with Tony Award-winning theater veteran Nick Demos (Memphis). The Broadway Fashion Report will cover the red carpet looks of the 2014 Tony Awards, as well as opening nights of the upcoming 2014-15 Broadway season. The show and it's content can be seen exclusively through BroadwayWorld.com, and will air on Monday June 9th at 10pm.
Until then, we bring you the Broadway Fashion Spotlight, showcasing trendsetters of the business and helping to understand what its like to be on stage 8 times a week and still be fashionable. Below, check out a special segment with Broadway's Derek Klena (Bridges of Madison County, Wicked)!
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Hey guys, I'm Tony Marion
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The curtains down, ghost lights on, and the best of the Great White Way exit the stage door and transform from star to trendsetter
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Join me, post show with the best of the theater to discuss Broadway and fashion
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Once I find a cab. This is the Broadway Fashion Spot
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I'm here at the Beatrice for a city. and I'm waiting for my buddy Derek Klena to meet me from the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater after his performance in the Bridges of Madison County
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The show was awesome tonight and I can't wait to have a drink and break down his style
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Hey, Tony. How's it good? How's it? How's it going? You did good
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Sholenfeld and Beatrice in 2020. Yeah, I try. It's not bad, man
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It's nice because the AC is like right. This is a good look
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I approve. I approve this look. I'm trying. You're staying true to Derek and you got a little bit of class for me
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I appreciate it. Where are you from again? Because I don't remember work to anybody. I'm from Southern California
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Like a little bit outside of L.A. A city called West Camina. You work on Broadway and listen, let's be honest
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You guys are not making, we're not making the salaries that Hollywood and Hollywood are making
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So like you live in New York City. It's an expensive place to live. How do you manage what clothes you go after
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Where you shop? Because obviously there some financial constraints I have a big bargain shopper I love I love I love just looking around I mean I end up being and buying like the same type of things
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but I definitely like branching out. Like I love going to like Buffalo Exchange
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just to see like, we can find. I like a Buffalo Exchange. I don't know Buffalo Exchange
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Kind of like an upscale thrift shop, I would think. That's great
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All right, so if I gave you, I'm not going to do. If I gave you $10,000
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and you were to go on like a shopping spree in New York knowing your personal aesthetic, knowing your personal style
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where would you go? Like, what would you buy? I've always loved John Barbados
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Their shoes. I mean, if I had $10,000, I would invest in a pair of shoes in there
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Well, you get two pairs of shoes from $10,000 for $10,000. What's your biggest fashion disaster
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Like, what's like the biggest thing? Yeah, like you saw a press code and you're like, what the hell was I thinking
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What was I wearing? I have a regret. Oh, what is it? What's your regret
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Well, I thought I'd be bold. and I saw this suit at Jake Crew for the opening of Dogfight
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It was like summer, and it was like my first summer opening, so I thought, you know, this suit was awesome
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It was like this kind of like white with like small, like navy blue pinstripe
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so it almost looked a little grayish. And then I had like these navy blue and white checkered shirt
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with like this navy blue tie with orange polka dots on it
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And on the mannequin, I was like, this looks awesome. Story of my life. This looks awesome. On the mannequin, it looks great
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And then I got it. And like, at the time, I was like, this is awesome. But then I got to the opening and I was the only one wearing a gold suit And I felt fine at the time and I got some cobblings on it But now looking back after I had a little more experience and a little more like more press events and more openings I gotten to go to
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I'm just like, maybe it would have gone with a little less bold choice
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In my mind, if you pay $150 for a Broadway ticket, you want to wear something nice
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So like, when you go see a show, what do you wear? And if you say shorts and a t-shirt, I scored a guy
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I have before. Oh, no. Well, these days, I mean, these days, why
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I know actors criticize it, And the audience that goes to the shows tend to dress down these days
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because it's more of a commercial crowd. It's less than a theater-going crowd. At the same time, I'm spending that kind of money
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and I'm going to have a great night out and go see something that truly is one of the best art forms
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that we can see in our entertainment world. I would want to be a little dressing, don't you think
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Right. But I mean, you . You California people. No. Yes. I'm close
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My family, we all grew up. We all wore. And I suppose I'd wear a suit, like the Pantagius in L.A
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Like when we'd go, we dress up, we make it a fun event. But now with the theatrics and the technology these days
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and having big shows like Wicked or like any Disney shows, they're so big and vibrant and it's more like an attraction now
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rather than a story being told the audience going to get moved. You know, they go for entertainment value half the time
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I want to say half the time. And then there's half of the crowd that go and say, like, I heard this playwright, this director
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or something about the artistic value of the show or like the written value or the acting value over you know the belts and wisdom Okay so then you have something like Wicked which is this huge commercial show which is kind of what you talked about You get a more commercial audience people dressing more casual
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but now you're in Bridges of Madison County, which isn't a huge commercial show
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It's much more artistic. Do you see a difference in the way the audience is dressed to both those shows? Oh, yeah
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When you have the older crowd and the more experienced theater-going crowd and going to bridges
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you see a little more upscale dress and you see a little more classic theater dressing
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rather than a family who's been walking around the city all day
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and say, yeah, let's go see a Broadway show. So they're seeing what they've been wearing all day just to go see a show
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And, you know, good for them to go to a Broadway show. But you just don't see the same style
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upscale style as you would in a traditional classic musical theater. Totally, I'll get that
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And that was very apparent during Wicked when I was doing Wicked. I mean, you have like these busloads of kids
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and you have tons of kids and family. And, you know, it's not as upscale and classy dress
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It's not an end of the theater. It's a night of entertainment. So what would you like to see change in the broad
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in terms of fashion besides how audience is dressed. If we dress up rather than dress down
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coming out of the stage door, I feel like that may affect the audience in the way they perceive, you know, Broadway in the afters
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and how they dress and how you're supposed to dress. Listen, start dressing up. Cheers of that. Okay
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Then we can get rid of sweatpants. All right. Hung. Food. You just did a show
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Yeah, man. I'm sorry. Do you have a menu? Let's get a menu
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