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How special was this show and what this Tony Award means to you
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We knew what we had was special and it was something we loved working on every day and
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showing up to do the work and have fun and play together. And so if nobody else liked it, we loved it hot
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And so it's just wonderful to be received in such a beautiful way and to give this joy
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and freedom to people eight nights a week. It's incredible. And the representation, what that means to you
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It means everything. Literally, there was a group of students from California last week and one of the kids
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most of them trans or non-binary, and one of them said to me, I've never been so validated
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by a character. And that's why I do what I do. So that someone feels seen, so that they know that anything is possible and that they can
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go into the world and live a full, happy, joyous life. You know, this show brings so much joy, but you worked a lot on Daphne and how you wanted
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her to be perceived in this show and what that meant to you. Yeah
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It was just a journey that it helped me ground myself in who I am as an individual and then
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bring that to the work. And I'm grateful that everybody on the creative team really allowed me to do that, to come
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into the room, to be myself, and to allow that to infuse the character and to really
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go across the proscenium and touch hearts and minds every night. Was there someone you forgot to thank while you were up there tonight
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No, I got them all. I think I covered it all. But I really wanted to call out our industry of just the labels and limits and boundaries
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we put on ourselves. We are such creative and imaginative people, and yet we limit ourselves in such a way
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And so if humans are capable of doing the work, let them do the work. Okay, I'm going to ask you to hold this high
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I want you to spin it, but tell me what comes to mind when you spin. Give that a big spin
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Come over here. Woo! Ha ha ha! Woo, the infinite possibilities of things to come, yet seen, yet dreamed, yet believed
