The celebrated nominees from the 2024-2025 Broadway season came together Thursday to talk about their nominations.
Here are some edited excerpts of the “On Stage” team’s conversations with some of the nominees.
“This is absolutely everything to me on the professional level and personally, because the music is very special to my family, especially my parents. It’s all. It’s all come together,” Natalie Venetia Belcon of “Buena Vista Social Club” said.
“When I was, a student in grad school for acting, I, you know, my friend Joel de la Fuente and I used to shoot baskets outside saying, if I make this basket, I’m going to be nominated for a Tony Award. And we would play these kinds of games. It’s a dream to be able to say it’s happened,” Daniel Dae Kim of “Yellow Face” said.
“I woke up early and then I went downstairs and my brother, like, met me halfway on the staircase. He was like, ‘You just got nominated for a Tony!'” Sadie Sink of “John Proctor is the Villain” said.
“It is a first for me, and that I’ve never been involved in a project from the inception. And so for the show to get six Tony nominations last week was such a huge deal, means everything. It’s so cool,” Jonathan Groff of “Just in Time” said.
“I feel validated, I feel proud and excited, and if any project was going to get me here, I am so excited that it’s ‘Real Women Have Curves: The Musical,'” Justina Machado of “Real Women Have Curves” said.
“It’s everything. I mean, first of all to be on Broadway is the Everest for an actor to climb. To have done this two person play and with the great Patti LuPone, I’m just so grateful,” Mia Farrow of “The Roommate” said.
“I love that the Tonys have gotten so big that it can be a big, beautiful commercial to the rest of the country, in the world, even to show what’s happening here on Broadway so that people will come and see, or just theater in general. It’s a big celebration. So I like to think of it in terms of that,” Audra McDonald of “Gypsy” said.
“You know, what’s been cool is processing it on the stage because I don’t really have a life, but I get to process it on the stage with the audience every night, and I even feel the energy from the audience has shifted slightly. And, it just feels really exciting,” Nicole Scherzinger of “Sunset Blvd.” said.
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