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Video: Brandon Victor Dixon Is Spreading the Love of HELL'S KITCHEN
Jun 14, 2024
In this video, watch as Tony nominee Brandon Victor Dixon chats about what this nomination means to him, what makes Hell's Kitchen so special, and so much more.
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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
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