alum earned applause on stage inSummer: The Donna Summer Musical.
“We’re going to have a lot of fun. I’m trying to keep it light, keep it joyful, say a little something that maybe we need to hear. But we’re celebrating,” the Oscar winner told The Associated Press days before the awards show. “It feels great. I am, in the words of Stephen Sondheim, ‘excited and scared.'”one week before the Tonys that she wanted to celebrate every person who’s involved in putting on a Broadway show — from the understudies to the bands.
“It is from a real, genuine place because the reality is those are the folks who have kept Broadway alive and it is not just swings and understudies. It is also dance captains, associates, stage managers. Everyone in the pit,” she explained. Nominations were announced in May, with stars of both stage and screen earning recognition for their work.
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