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What's made this so special for you with working on this show? Oh, well, you know
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working with all these wonderful actors and seeing it come. We started in 2014 in one iteration of the play
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And I'm just so happy for Steven, too. And this Broadway community
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That's the thing. You know when you get that nomination that you're going to be able to be in the midst
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of the community. Because nobody gets to see everything, but to get to see everyone
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when you come to the Tony Affairs. You have brought so much joy with this show
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Old audiences, new young audiences coming to the theater for the very first time
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What that's meant to you? Oh, that's the whole thing. I mean, the young people and the audiences
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that come back again. Because we got audiences that saw it once
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and come back again. And that's the kick. That's the kick. And you know the conversations
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that when you leave and you go to the restaurant and they're like
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can you sell this for me? Well, why did you do this? Why did you do that? You know, it's a joy to be a part of that
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Take me back to young, young Steven. Like the youngest, that first play you did
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in kindergarten or whatever. What was one of the first things you did and what would older Steven tell younger Steven now
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Oh, wow, that you're doing the right thing, kid. You're doing the right thing
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I, in high school, first year high school, I was asked to play Linder in A Raisin in the Sun
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And I said, what? I was going to all black high school, you know
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And I said, okay. And I did it. And because all the people who were in the play
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were upper class people that I wanted to know and that I did know from the community
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So I did. And then the next time that director was doing a play in college, she cast me as Walter Lee
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So I got to go from Linder to Walter Lee. And now I've played Bobo with Denzel Washington
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and Jim Pickens, Roger Robinson through the years. So Raisin in the Sun is one of my favorite plays
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And so that was my first one. I love it. I love it
