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So, here we are again. I was just thinking about you last night, and I said, I wonder what it was like for her
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like, to deal with Waitress first, and now you're back being nominated
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as an actress for Into the Woods. It's unbelievable. You know, I think I have realized
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that coming through these waters as a composer was so out of body
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Like, I never imagined that for myself. It was such a sort of strange and surreal
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and such a proud experience, but I imagined myself onstage as an actor as a little kid
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so there's something really childlike and really especially delicious about this experience
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I just feel so grateful and so lucky, and, yeah, really, I'm firmly in the joy of this
0:56
This is awesome. Every show is special, but there's something about Into the Woods
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the whole entire concept of bringing it back, the journey you were all on
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Like, how special was that for you? I mean, it was extraordinary
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I think the pace of the production, you know, I think it was like the show
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just was its own little alive being that was telling us what it wanted
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It was like the pace of City Center was so fast. We didn't really have time. It had to be very instinctual
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And then sort of the same thing happened with Broadway, where it was just like moving quickly
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You had to touch into, you know, the love of the legacy of Stephen Sondheim
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having lost him just before the production, and I think there's something about dealing in fairy tales
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that really ignites a childlike wonder in both audience and cast members and orchestra
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I mean, it was a very emotional experience for all of us, and I just loved the privilege
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of getting to tell this story every night with these people because I just loved my cast so much as well
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Yeah. Take me back to the youngest Sarah when you were, like, on stage in a show really, really early
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Charlotte's Web. Yeah. Tell me about that. Tell me what an old Sarah would tell young Sarah
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Oh, gosh. Ah. Well, I think I would tell myself to have more fun
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to hold things a little more lightly, to be brave enough to make mistakes in front of people
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because I think that's where you really build this sense that, like, no matter what happens, you'll be okay
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We have to be willing to fail, and I was very scared of failing in front of people
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Charlotte's Web was one of the first ones. I played Fern, and I can't imagine I was very good
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but I probably sang the shit out of that song. But, yeah, nothing else
