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Is it surreal? Like, what's going through your mind? You got a Tony pin! Surreal doesn't even begin to describe it
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It's out of this world. It's like, is it real? Keep pinching me
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I need to be pinched, like, 100 times a day. I've been with this play for so long
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and I never dreamed that it would, you know, this would be a phase in the journey
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It's wild. What's made this so special for you with working on this play
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I love this play so much. I believe in this play. I, you know, moved my family out to Chicago in 2016
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to play this part with Annie Kaufman in a different production. I loved it so much, and I thought that
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and we've been trying to do it in New York since, and I really, there were all these near misses
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didn't think it was going to happen. The BAM run happened. It was a kind of small miracle
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and we had such an incredible time there and thought that was going to be it
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No one, there was never any talk or sort of ambition to move it
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That was only in the 11th hour. That, you know, you know the whole story
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but it's sort of, that in and of itself is a miracle
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and really the best part is getting the world to know about how broad the genius of Lorraine Hansberry is, right
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That it's not just raising the sun and some essays. It's like everything, and I just
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the idea that tens of thousands of more people are going to get to come see this masterpiece
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which I believe is a masterpiece, is the best part to me
