Angelina Jolie receives her first Tony Award

Good thing Angelina Jolie listened to some important advice from her daughter Vivienne: The Oscar-winning actress took her first Tony home for the production. The Outsiders: A Fresh Musical.

Jolie received her degree at the Tony Awards ceremony on Sunday with her 15-year-old daughter, who joined her mother in L.A. Was inspired to see the musical staged in. Jola, ca. Like Jolie, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt also contributed notes to the Crash Broadway brand.

When producer Matthew Rego accepted the Tony, he gave a special congratulations to Jolie, one of the many people who made the musical a reality. they also checked the name foreigner Producer SE Hinton, who was among the target audience. I’m ready in Tulsa in 1967, foreigner It tells the story of 14-year-old ponyboy Curtis, his two brothers and best friend Johnny – the Greasers – as they try to get ahead and rise up against the rich rival team, the Sox.

“Susie Hinton wrote The Outsiders 60 years ago and has been receiving accolades ever since. But she often says she still gets overwhelmed when she is told that The Outsiders changed someone’s life because she would say, who would have changed someone’s life? This is a book. This is not a writer. This is the message, not the messenger. Well Susie, I’m here to tell you that your story and its eternal message of love, family and staying golden has changed all of our lives forever. We love you.”

Jolie did not discuss the level, nor did she give a behind-the-scenes update to reporters visiting the Tonys. Bummer.

In a candid conversation with Cut-Off Date, Jolie explained how she first got involved with music.

“My daughter Viv loves theatre. She appreciates all the theater but she definitely knows what she feels and reacts to. she went to see foreigner About five times in La Jolla and he was telling me about it, and I’d read the book, and I’d seen the movie years ago. Then she asked me to come watch it with her, and I thought it was just a… You know, Danya talks about how important it is for teenagers, how it was written by someone who He’s my daughter’s age, right? So, really, as a mom, as a person, I was looking at it, but I was really looking at the impact it was having on my young daughter and what she was telling me about herself. It was, and I was learning what was important about it and why it was so deeply connected to her.”

“So, it was a very different experience to understand how this is having a significant impact on her as a young person at this time, and she’s communicating something to me, and that’s the power of this material, which is really By the time I was in good shape, I would be in shape,” Jolie said. “And then I had the privilege of watching everyone work last year to make it what it is, and Vivienne has been totally involved in that.”

Outsiders Director Danya Taymor said that “Angelina was in the room VerySo much, and not only providing support, but also providing incredible feedback, not just for me, though certainly for me and like me, a way to keep the vision of the book as powerful and courageous and brutal. The real champion, but she was also there as an actor.”

“You know, we had a lot of people making their Broadway debuts, a lot of people coming into the spotlight for the first time, and she was incredibly generous in sharing her experience,” Taymor said. “And you know, technical rehearsals in theater are not for the faint of heart. Those are long days, and it impressed me a lot that Angelina was there, because that’s how you earn people’s trust, and she gave us that. She was very interested in sports and very curious about it all, and it was the same with Vivienne. Vivienne watched the show and gave me the most amazing notes. Like, incredible eye. So, it was a wonderful, wonderful support, and also, obviously, made the job better.