glenda jackson discussed this with me when she joined me from new york earlier in the week. >> glendaon, welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> so i don't want to be indelicate, but you are a woman of a certain age. you are over 80, if i'm not mistaken, and you are having a resurgence of your acting career. many, many women, yourself included, have complained, rightly, that there just aren't enough roles for women, especially older women. how do you feel though doing this? >> well, i still concur with what -- what you just said. usually there's only -- if there is, one woman's part, and certainly as far as contemporary drama is concerned it seems to be, and that has stayed the same in my experience ever since i first walked on to the stage and got paid for it. what is remarkable about this particular production is not only it is a great play, but there are three really good women, three women's parts in this. one of the things that attracted me most to doing it was the opportunity to work with actresses of the caliber of the two actresses i'm privileged to work with. >> and what abo

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glenda jackson, allison pill. were you familiar with the play when -- when you signed on to do it?ree tall women," had never read it, and signed onto do it blind because i wanted to be in the room with joe mantello, the director. glenda jackson, the legend, allison pill, oh -- who i've been dying to work with. [ cheers and applause ] and also the producer, scott rudin, who, you know, is -- >> seth: he knows what he's doing. >> yes, he does. >> seth: yes, he does. >> yes. >> seth: and this is -- i did not realize this about glenda jackson, your co-star. so, she won two oscars and then went into parliament -- >> walked away from -- >> seth: and then was in parliament for 23 years. >> ran for parliament. lost the first time, i think. ran again. served for 23 years. left that and then decided to get back into theater and decided to do "king lear." she played "king lear" in london. >> seth: wow. [ light laughter ] >> so, she -- she jumped right back in again. [ light laughter ] and -- now she's on broadway starring in this. and she's fantastic. >> seth: is it intimidating to work with s

the nominees for best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play are glenda jackson, edwardloff, children of a lesser god, amy schumer, meteor shower. >> the nominees for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical are harry hadden-paton my fair lady, joshua henry, carousel, tony shalhoub the band's visit, ethan slater, spongebob squarepants the musical. best performance by an actress in a leading ro el in a musical are lauren ambrose, my fair lady, hailey kilgore once on this island, lachanze, summer, the donna summer musical, katrina lenk, the band's visit, taylor louderman, mean girls, and jesse mueller, roger and hammer ste hammerstein's carousel. >> the mom nominees best revival of a play, angels in america, three tall women, the iceman cometh, travesties. [ applause ] the nominees for best revival of a musical are my fair lady, once on this island, rogers and hammerstein's carousel. [ applause ] >> the nominees for best play are -- the children, farinelli and the king, harry potter and the cursed child, parts one and two, junk, and latin history for mor