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How exciting are you to be here today
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It's thrilling. It's thrilling to be here. It's Tony Day. It is
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It is. And I'm lucky enough to be here. What's made this so special for you with working on Into the Woods
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Well, coming back to it and getting to see Sarah and Julia and Lear and Jordan and all
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these people that created this show, it hasn't been running on Broadway for a few minutes
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and so it's really touching to know that the nominators had us in mind, and I think it's
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a testament to what we were able to achieve on stage and the kind of special lightning
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in a bottle quality that I think this production had, which seems to be memorable
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Singing Sondheim must be glorious. It is a glorious, extraordinary gift that I've been given or anyone who gets, any actor
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gets that chance because it's challenging. It requires great exploration, constant exploration, and also I want to quote DP Kelly, who played
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the mysterious man, the narrator in our show and is currently doing it on the road and
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the tour. He talked about singing Sondheim and he used the phrase, the algebra of emotion, the algebra
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of emotion, meaning, the way I took it to mean is that Sondheim has done all of this
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algebraic work of crafting very particular X's and Y's and, you know, if you think about
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it that way, and that is the thing that will equate the emotion that you receive when you're
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watching it or witnessing it. Our jobs, I think, as actors, when it comes to extraordinary material like this, kind
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of like Shakespeare, is just say the words, get out of the way, it's all baked in
