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Video: Victoria Clark Celebrates Tony Win for 'Best Leading Actress in a Musical'
May 17, 2024
Just last night at the 76th Annual Tony Awards, Victoria Clark took home a Tony Award for 'Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical' for her outstanding work in Kimberly Akimbo (currently running at the Booth Theatre). After leaving the stage at the United Palace, Victoria checked it with BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge to share her initial reaction!
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The amount of love that has been showered on me this year
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is so tremendous. So many people pulling for me. My husband, my son, my family, all my friends
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You know, this show has eaten up my life the last three years
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I don't really see anyone. I just rest so I can do this performance
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And people have been so wonderful. And then the people at the show are just
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they're sensational. Everybody has just supported me in the most incredible way
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I'm so spoiled now. Like if I go to the next show, I'll be like, what
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No, I'm sorry. They didn't treat me like that at Kimberly Akimbo. You gotta like pull your head together
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So because that's how tremendous everybody's been. And so I meant it when I said
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I share it with every person at the booth because every single person is telling Kim's story
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Not just me. You have spent your whole life working in the theater
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Pretty much. What that means to you. You know, stories heal. Because when we listen to stories
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we find our own holes in our lives, in our families, in our situation, our issues
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And we're able to heal. So it's a gift. I feel like God put me on earth to tell stories
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and sometimes to sing, sometimes not to sing, but to work through me as an agent of healing
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I've said that before, but I think it's true. Just look, you have another Tony award
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It's crazy. I forgot how heavy they are. It's not like I parade around my house with a Tony award
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I haven't picked it up in a while. Or I think maybe they're getting heavier or I'm getting older
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Where will this one live? Next to the other one. Yeah, of course
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I'm still in shock. It hasn't really sunk in. I think it'll take a while
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Who designed your dress? This is Christian Siriano. It was designed for a fashion show
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but it never went down the runway. And I was like, you know, we were looking at your dress
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I was like, what's that over there? And we tried it on and it fit perfectly
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And these are verdura. This is a vintage necklace from 1949 with the matching
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And this is the diamond ring. And these are the earrings that go with it
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These are Ceylon sapphires, which I'm supposed to say. It's a special kind of sapphire
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This is a throwback to like the best of vintage Broadway meets glamorous Hollywood. Seriously
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With like a little bit of an edge. I was going for like modern meets like old Hollywood glamour
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Being in that room tonight at this theater, was it fabulous? Yes. Guess who I sat directly behind
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Who did you sit by? Kelly O'Hara. And I texted her because during the rehearsal
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I found her I was going to sit behind. I said, we're going to cut up. And we did
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Although I said, Kelly, we're not cutting up as much as we should. And she goes, well, we're tired
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She had a matinee today. Yes. Yeah. There's nothing like it. Did you do a matinee today too
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No, we didn't. But we had an early dress rehearsal, you know
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And then, you know. And then you turn it out. Well, you see glamour takes a second
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You were glamorous. Then you had to become Kimberly. Then you became glamorous. I had to re-glamorize myself with a team of four people
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Well, you've done a gorgeous job. Just hold this up for me. I want you to spin it, but tell me what comes to mind when you spin this one
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Let's see. Let's see. It's coming to mind. Outer space, hot dogs, food, more food, water, and God
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You were like the best spinner too. Oh baby, that's because I already have one
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I know you can like, there we go. See, it's a good one
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