00:00Emilio, what a fantastic bag you got.
00:02I found it in L.A. actually last week.
00:05Where?
00:06Somewhere downtown.
00:08They have such great, wonderful shopping in L.A. and I love it.
00:11I'm doing a show there at the Geffen.
00:12So I enjoy shopping there when I'm there.
00:15To come here in New York now, we're kind of having a moment right now.
00:18Do you feel the energy here?
00:19You know what, I'm lucky.
00:20I grew up here in New York and I came into the theater world young,
00:25but it never gets old.
00:26Every year it just gets better and better.
00:28New York is, we're popping, you know, the Nixon Four.
00:33What happened?
00:34Yes.
00:35Are you going to be celebrating that?
00:37Totally.
00:38I'm going to be out there showing my bleep, bleep, bleep.
00:42I'm going to have fun.
00:43It's a good night of theater and I want the world to see that we're a community
00:47and we love each other and we have so much to give.
00:49Just no watch parties outside MSG because Trump's coming.
00:52Oh, I know.
00:54How do you think New Yorkers will greet him?
00:57You know what?
00:57He's a New Yorker.
00:58He's been a try and true New Yorker.
01:00We're a melting pot.
01:02We love everyone.
01:03We just, you know, it's a place for everyone in this world.
01:05And we're the Knicks fan.
01:07We want Knicks fans.
01:08It doesn't matter.
01:09Yeah, Knicks fans and Knicks fans.
01:10What's your favorite Tonys win of all time?
01:13I mean, well, I haven't had one as of yet.
01:17You mean someone else's?
01:18Yeah, yeah.
01:19I think Andre DeShields when he went for Hades Sound because he gave such an amazing speech
01:24that I don't think anyone can ever top in the history of Tony Award speeches because it was
01:29really heartfelt and very simple and it was more a way of life than a how to get here kind
01:35of speech.
01:36It was more, this is the philosophy of being a better person versus just being a better
01:40artist.
01:42That's a great answer.
01:43That's a great theme.
01:45Speaking of people, you know, there's a lot of great people nominated here tonight.
01:49Is there someone you wish was here, someone that was snubbed that you wish was being recognized?
01:53You know what?
01:54I don't look at it as snubbed.
01:56It's just a matter of is it your year or not.
01:58I mean, we all come into this wanting to do well.
02:01We all come into it with great expectations.
02:04But this is the gravy.
02:06By the time we get here, we've done like two years of work.
02:10So this is just a, for me, it's not about a snub.
02:13It's about with your year, your end, just enjoy it because, you know, once Broadway does
02:18well, we all do well regardless of whether you got a nomination or not.
