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Video: Now You Know... Lindsay Mendez Is a Tony Nominee
Jun 4, 2024
In this video, watch as Tony nominee Lindsay Mendez chats about her truly incredible year, why Merrily We Roll Along means so much to her, and so much more.
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I cannot believe it
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You're a Tony nominee! I know. I am beside myself. It's so thrilling
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Okay, what I love about this show is you all got nominated, which I think is really special
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It is. Jonathan, Daniel, and you. Yes. I mean, did you all have a conversation after it happened
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What happened? Well, we went to the theater that night and we all screamed in my room and hugged and
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I mean, we were just, it feels, it just feels so right
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The three of us really, we work so hand in hand to make this show happen and so just
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for all of us to kind of get that together is, it's so special
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What's made this show so special for you? You've done some incredible projects, but there's something extra special about Merrily
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I mean, I think it's, I think it's the story, the legacy of the show itself and the journey
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that we've had bringing it here, people loving it, but also the story of friendship, which
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I think anyone can empathize with and, and then doing it with these two guys
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I mean, they're just, they're the greatest. I love them so much and I don't know, it's easy
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It's an easy show to do for me because of that. Well, you know, Daniel said the same thing
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They said Jonathan and Lindsey give so much, so, you know, you just go to the theater and
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you just do. Yeah. It doesn't, it doesn't take, you know, people always ask me like, oh, do you have to like
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what do you have to do before you walk on? I'm like, I do nothing. I'm out there and we're there
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It's like, it's been one of the easiest jobs I've ever done. Not that it's easy, but like as far as being with them every night, it's like, it's, I'm
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immediately transported. Well, it's a love fest, the three of you have, seriously. I mean, you know, Jonathan was in tears in here
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I mean, Daniel, Daniel's doing Sondheim. I know. And he's killing Sondheim, you know, and yeah, they're just, they're, they're really special
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human beings. And their hearts are so big. And I think people feel that they feel our love for each other out there
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And just like being back with them, it's like bringing a young audience, people who've never gone to a theater before coming to see Merrily. Yes
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All these people come, you know, Harry Potter fans, but they leave being like, I love Sondheim
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which is just the best. There's nothing better than bringing new people to theater
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So what's today like for you when they pinned you again? Oh my God. I felt so good to be pinned
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I lost my other pin. So I'm really happy to have this one. I won't lose this one. Don't you
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But you have a Tony. I do, but I didn't put the pin on the Tony. I don't know. Somehow I lost it
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But, but yeah. Kids and everything else. Yeah. I'm sure maybe my child ingested it
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Who knows? What a magical time, seriously, with everything that's, not only do you have an incredible
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show, but everything that's happened in your personal life too, right? Yes. I just got married
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I'm having a baby. Yeah. I just didn't want to make this an easy year
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But I'm, I'm just delighted. And I, yeah, it feels, it feels on point for me
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I feel like I do like to do things as difficult as possible
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But you do it with a smile and a laugh. Thank you. I try
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