First-time future Tony winners at their awards: Daniel Radcliffe, Keshia Lewis and extras

All of the actors who won Tony Awards on closing night have something in common: They’re all being honored for the first time. At the close of accepting their awards, the winners walked across Lincoln Middle Plaza to a press room, where they answered questions from reporters from The Untapped York Times and alternative information retailers. Here’s a sample of what he said.

Daniel Radcliffe, “Merrily We Roll Along”

Radcliffe won Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance as songwriter Charlie Kringas in the revival of Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along”. This is Radcliffe’s 5th Broadway performance, although the first for which he was nominated for a Tony.

How has “Merilee” progressed for you?

It’s been a dream, especially after it ended like this. Whenever I worked with him for “Equus,” one of the first things I talked about being my music instructor, he had me sing “Good Things Going.” From making a song for the first time at my place of business in London to making a song on stage and now this, it’s crazy.

What’s it like to discover a brand new fortune after spending so much of your career in your teens on “Harry Potter”?

Once I finished “Potter,” I had no idea what my profession was going to be. I had already begun to work to some extent, although I did not know what the generation thought. It’s been great to spend this last bit of time starring in Bizarre Al (the 2022 film “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story”) as well as working on “Merrily We Roll Along.” And I think enjoying a personality for a long time makes you want to do as much work as possible. This is what I am doing right now.

Communicate a little about study techniques “Franklin Shepard, Inc.?” It is music with abundance and abundance of patterns present on the screen.

Just pay attention to it, take care of it, take care of it, study it. The less you’re told about the progression of ideas coming through it, the less intimidating it becomes. You start to see it as an unlearnable lump and start to think, “Well, that’s what’s going on there.”

Jonathan Groff, “Merrily We Roll Along”

Groff won Best Distinguished Actor in a Musical for playing Franklin Shepard, a musical musician who jeopardizes his close relationships for industrial success in “Merrily We Roll Along.”

If you were given the opportunity to immediately discuss your younger self, what would you emphasize?

Natural enjoyment, inspiration, pleasure, interest for humanities is a superpower. If you consider it and apply it and harness it and believe in it, it can change your era. However, I wouldn’t want to tell him this, because I think he might have done it. If I needed to give him advice, I would say to start meditating.

What does it really feel like to win your first Tony for a performance in which you built such a deep relationship with your co-stars?

We all were in the theater recently. Dan (Radcliffe) once said, “Aren’t you stressed?” And I was like, “I’d rather be happy than stressed.” He was once like, “I’m going to get a shirt that says: I’m stressed and you’re happy.”

The fact that this performance, this masterpiece by Stephen Sondheim, is receiving a whole new generation 40 years later? This is unheard of, and it is unheard of in performance with this method. I felt like we had already won, despite the awards this morning.

Being on stage at the Tonys with my entire team and having to sing “Old Friends” and feeling like we were standing in a living room with all the opportunities and no longer at the Tony Awards was the most incredible feeling, such a heavy one. -In a live presentation, you’ll really feel that level of intimacy.

Moon, who is making her Broadway debut, won best actress in a musical for playing Ali in “Hell’s Kitchen,” a fictionalized version of Alicia Keys’ teenage years.

How brutal is it for you to be in a performance that brings different portrayals into the Broadway canon?

None of this is an issue if we, as theater goers, don’t do our section to inspire those formative years as theater people to accumulate what they desire. Without youth there is no generation of theatre, musical theatre, drama, opera or any other creative generation. Had it not been for the academics, suppliers and the village that raised me not only as a child but as a storyteller, I would not have been anywhere near this present in my era.

As far as diversity in folk goes, it’s very impressive for people who look like me to come to the theater and see themselves reflected in a work of art, because everyone has a good theater record. Have the right to whatever may happen. about them.

Young won Best Featured Actress for her performance as lustybelle Gussie Mae Jenkins in the revival of Ossie Davis’ satire “Purly Victorious”. This post was started by Ruby D.

Why is it so important that you win your Tony for “Purly Victorious”?

Every little gift we have to honor our bodies, to honor our expression and to try it out in a two-hour moment, to me, is honoring the dim public and reigning over it and the legacy of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. And furthering their continuity. To move the American tapestry.

It feels historic because we are honoring him. He did not get respect for his paintings 60 years ago. It is accepting more than me, it is accepting the entire public who came before me and whose work was never said anything about.

How does it really feel to hold your first Tony Award? (Younger was also nominated for the awards in 2022 and 2023.)

It feels so much greater than me, because of the stories I’ve had the opportunity to tell. This is not me. It is the makeup of many, many, many, many, many people, especially the sacrifices of mom and dad. I’m keeping it, although it’s definitely committed to walking into my people’s field.

Jeremy Sturdee, “The Enemy of the People”

In a revival of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People,” Sturdee received Outstanding Actor in a Play for playing Dr. Thomas Stockman, who warns his people about a dangerously polluted spa.

What was going on in your mind when you won?

I felt crushed. Losing a game is a very different thing than standing on your feet in front of your people. I felt overwhelmed with gratitude.

What did it mean to bring the display to the present day on Broadway?

At its most primal degree, aqua is an allegory. It’s a play about someone who wants to tell reality, which is something that is under attack in many ways in our country and our world.

But beyond that, it’s a game about denialism. What the public will do to protect its interests is to avoid an inconvenient or inconvenient fact, and what happens when the source becomes toxic, and in our case in this country, what happens when what was toxic can prosper. Is, and what will the public do to provide them security.

How did your identity with Dr. Thomas Stockman evolve to where it really is?

I think acting takes extreme non-intellectual self-discipline. I’m a very mindful person and the thing you need to do is free yourself from reason, intuition, caution and what is known by Ezra Pound as your “gut-mind.”

Sarah Paulson, “Suitable”

Paulson won for her role as the demonic Antoinette Lafayette in Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’ hot country drama, “Appropriate.”

What does it really feel like to win a Tony?

I don’t really feel like I’m in my frame right now. I can’t even think about it. I will not consider it. This is my teenage dream, without question. Therefore, it is very useless to perform in front of a group of people without feeling that I am revealing my innermost things to you.

How does it feel to keep playing the same role, showing each movement and having extra notes to say goodbye?

I’m trying to check the issues again and again, relying on what’s happening on stage with the alternate actors, what’s happening in my pace. Perhaps the most amazing thing about being at a game is that you have time, and you are telling a story from beginning to end of the night. You are following a perfect trajectory, the same path that your personality is on, and in a few months you are much better prepared to do it than you were a few months ago.

Will Brill, “Stereophonic”

Brill received the Most Successful Actor in Play Games award for David Adjmi’s “Stereophonic”. As the bassist of a fictional band, Brill had to learn to play games that appeared to be played while heavily intoxicated in the software age.

What was the discovery of Reg’s condition unkind to you?

One of the strangest things about Reg in many ways is that he came in completely prepared. I believe that really remarkable writing from time to time will do that for an actor. It feels like you’re being invented by the playwright, and it feels like you’re being created yourself because you tap into this thing so perfectly.

This show more or less taught me to blur the lines between myself and a personality in a really entertaining and very entertaining way.

Ksenia Lewis, “Hell’s Kitchen”

It was a tight race for featured actress in a musical, but Lewis won for her role as a piano instructor who becomes the young hero’s instructor in “Hell’s Kitchen.”

What does this represent for you?

This is extremely important, mainly because it’s actually been 40 years. I walked into the Imperial Theater doing “Dreamgirls” when I was 18, and in two weeks I’ll be 59. However it involves a lot of labor, a lot of tears, a lot of lack of dedication.

How has your religion been influential on your business?

Religion has been everything. I didn’t have it when I first started. When I started out at 18, it felt like I was determined to become a celebrity and everyone would know my name. And I’m committed to being fierce and I’m committed to looking beautiful and I’m committed to winning awards. There was a time like this.

And over time, when the age comes, you come back to determine that religion is really all that you have. You should consider both, not otherwise. And there were times when I didn’t do that. There have been people in my era who started conversations with me. One of the most public discussions I attended said to me, What are you going to do, just push? You don’t understand how to do something.

For me, religion has changed everything over time. It brings a feeling of peace in my soul, that this is the right thing, this is the right moment, travel through this door.