--Donna, thank you for coming in. --Thanks for inviting me back
--You know, you you were
here last year and when you were finishing your triumphant run in Hello,
Dolly! which was so fantastic. And I was so excited to finally get you here for
Show People. --We had such a great time.
--It was a super-sized episode by the way
--It... [laughs]
--I mean, I just like we could have talked for hours, so it actually is a
much longer episode because you have so
much, so many amazing things to say. So I
wanted to have you back because --Thank you.
--It's you know it's good to just keep the
conversation going, right? --Let's do it.
--And you know, when you were here for Show People,
one of the most sort of shocking things you talked about...
--Oh my. -- You know, we like to hear where
people, how people's Tonys are doing.
They're like, you know, living breathing
things. --I remember when you asked me that.
--These Tonys, they spin and they they do things. And you you told us
that your first Tony Award, which was --For Passion
--ctually 25 years ago --[sighs[
--for Passion, 1994. You look fantastic!
It was damaged. --I just need a minute.
I just... --You told us that it
wasn't... it wasn't doing well.
It was so
sad. --I think what I said was that it had..
I'd noticed that like the metal had sort of like
tarnished, or gotten kind of funky. And I didn't know whether like someone who
tried, a cleaning person had maybe put a product on it. I didn't know, and I
maybe jokingly said like, You know, you know, Can can I get a new one? Or...
Which I would never expect that. I love it because it what it's what it
means, you know, that is special to me. And my mom has my other Tony up in
Topsfield, Massachusetts. --Right, it's safe.
--In a curio cabinet and it's like perfectly shiny. So maybe
it's just New York. I don't know.
--Right. Well no one should have a tarnished Tony.
And you know, a lot of people really reacted to this. And in fact, you know our
friends at the Tony Awards, the American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League,
they didn't think that your first Tony should be tarnished. So, actually...
--Oh my God. Nope. No. --Look at this! This,
Donna Murphy, is a
replacement 1994 Tony Award for Passion --[laughs] Stop it.
--Best performance...and the winner is... and the Tony goes to...
[beats couch]
--Donna Murphy for
Passion!
There you go!
--Oh my god.
I don't have to run up on the stage.
It's beautiful.
It's a fresh, you know, they're
giving away Tonys this week, so you get one,
--It's a bargain deal? --It's the time of year.
--Oh my god.
--Does it feel good?
---That's kind of amazing.
--They didn't actually provide any care
instructions. I don't know if you might want to look it up though.
--Maybe you can google it these days. I need
to call like Audra and say, What's the deal, Audra?
--Yeah, she must know.
there's gotta be progressive nature to... This is unbelievable.
--And of course, you know I
have to say this is this was for Passion.
--Which was the first time I created a
role in a Broadway show. --Yeah, and you were making a
lot of mole jokes back then. --Yeah.
--I watched your Tonys speech.
--You have to keep your sense of humor
about the moles that we, we kept moving on my
face. [laughs]
--But it also feels kind of poetic for this to be happening
right now, 25 years later, because of course this year we are honoring your
costar Marin Mazzie, --My beloved Marin
--Who lost her battle
with cancer since you were here
actually. And she's getting, she's being honored with a special Tony.
--Which is so remarkable. --It feels kind of like the right moment.
--Yeah, I mean, holding this just brings a wave
of memories of that time, which were remarkable because to me getting to do
that show, working with my heroes, creative heroes Steve Sondheim and James
Lapine. And and then making some of my closest friends, and Marin who really
became like a sister to me during that time, and playing a role that just I
it was definitely like creatively, I would say thus far the high point of of
my creative life. --Wow.
--This is beautiful and
shiny and new and... --Well, take care of it.
--Oh, you know that I will. And it's not that I wasn't. I don't know, but look...
Look.
[laughs]
--Yeah, my name's still on it. Okay. So, you have to
speak out. You have to speak out when there are things that you want taken
care of, so I'm glad. I'm glad it all worked out.
--That is amazing. --Thank you for coming in,
and take care of it, please. Please! --You are so sweet.
Mwah! -- I adore
you. --Thank you so much.
--Are you gonna watch the Tonys? Do you
watch the Tonys? -- I do. I do. Sometimes... I've been
working like filming
something the next day, and I know I can think of different like locations I've
been on. And I'm like, Oh my god. I have a 4:00 a.m. call, but I just have to watch the
first few categories!
--Fantastic. --I'll be watching. Thank you so much.
I don't want to get lip gloss on it.
[laughs] --And
create another problem. Can you get the lip gloss off this, you know American
Theatre Wing? Because there's a schmear here. It's...
--No smears on the Tony!
--No smears on my Tony. You got that? Nobody kiss the Tony.
--I love when that accent comes out. --Oh
yeah, Long Island. She's there forever.
--Thank you so much, Donna. --Oh, thank you.
--Enjoy! --Well, how can I not?