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You're a Tony nominee
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What does this Tony nomination mean to you? I'm very excited for the recognition
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It was very unexpected. I definitely didn't think it was, I wasn't even thinking about it
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I was, I slept until like 11pm and my phone was like, my agents were like, call us
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So I'm just very grateful, you know, and I'm very grateful that our show has been so well recognized. Yeah
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What's made this show so special? You worked on some incredible projects, but what's so special about Hell's Kitchen
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I mean, I think two things in particular. I mean, I think one, I think Alicia Keys, I think she is clearly, she's clearly a very
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special individual and that, that luminance, excuse me, that luminous nature, I think that
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has really kind of come through her to all of us as a, as a community over the years
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So she, she brings a quality. I think there's just that. And also for me, the message of our show is that it takes a village, that takes a village
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to raise us. And sometimes that can be hard to accept, that I can't give everything to the person
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I love. I have to allow other people to give to the people I love too
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And I have to allow them to give to me. And right now that, that message of kind of grace, forgiveness and acceptance is one that
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we all really need, I think as a global community. And so I think that's resonating with people
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There's this very fractious feeling time and I think we're, and the fear kind of pervades us
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And so I think it's dispelling that. And I think that that's why it's resonating
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And stopping the show each night in song that you do, sir, at that theater, what that means
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to you? I don't know that I would call that a stop in the show. I think Shoshana stops the show a bit more in Pond It All
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But I think, you know, that moment in particular with myself and Malia Joy Moon, Ali at the
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piano, I do think it's, there is a coming together of a real synergy of all these disparate
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elements that make our show. There is something that is kind of a capstone in that piece in a lot of respects
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So it's very fantastic when the audience is so taken with it and then so let down in the
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moments right after it with the hopes that that moment has given them
