where the beautiful paramount hotel in new york city the official partner of the twenty fourteen tony awards our special guest there's something false there she's a six time tony nominee a two time tony award winner as one of broadway's brightest stars she's known for her roles in thoroughly modern millie anything goes shrek the musical and the drowsy chaperone one of the funniest shows is it you can currently see her playing the title character of roundabout the it is production of violence and you'll be able to see her on your t.v. screens this fall in t.v. land's new series young guns in graduations on the to me nomination thank you so you get old hat. no i think i think it would be. i hope that it never gets old hat it's nice to practice my tony award speech when i was fifteen in my mirror when i was growing up and doing you want to be on broadway but i think i don't know if i knew that that it was possible like the concept of actually making a career in broadway but i used to like practice and i would you know dedicate my tony to mean kids who would make fun of me in seventh grad

our special guest antique car one of the beautiful paramount hotel in new york city the official partner of the twenty fourteen tony awards and he known for his roles in such broadway productions as saturday night fever the mystery of edwin drood with giving legally blonde the music go and jersey boys he's a to twenty fourteen twenty nominee was outstanding for a rocky balboa in the broadway musical rocky now playing at the window i knew about this in advance because sly stallone is an old friend oh yeah and his daughter and my son go to high school together to have a feeling you guys know it's and he told me that he loved you off and had he he picked you and he did he you know we they videotaped a lot of the auditions and and i came in there and i really wanted this role and i'm just honored to take that you know that gauntlet as far as the distro lll in particular it's such an icon for so many people including myself and also to step up and play this role takes takes a fine line of you know playing playing with the icon but also keeping a very honest and i think you know he saw somethi