Tony nominees Jonathan Groff and William Jackson Harper on Rediscovering Themselves on Stage
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
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🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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It's a Tonys interview special, with two of this year's buzziest stage performers joining the podcast. First, Richard speaks with Merrily We Roll Along nominee Jonathan Groff about his transformative experience on the Sondheim musical, his first Broadway show since Hamilton. Then, David catches up with The Good Place alum William Jackson Harper, who between Uncle Vanya and Primary Trust had one of the best years on stage for any actor in recent memory.
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| 0:20.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the Award Season podcast from Vanity Fair. |
| 0:25.0 | I am delighted and proud to introduce him as Academy Award winner. |
| 0:30.0 | And the Oscar goes to. |
| 0:32.0 | And the Oscar goes to the winner it's a tie |
| 0:38.8 | And any little girl who's who's practicing their speech on the teller you never know. |
| 0:44.0 | Ma, I just want an Oscar. I'm David Canfield and I'm here for this week's interview episode with Richard Lawson. |
| 0:59.5 | Hi Richard. |
| 1:00.5 | Hello. |
| 1:01.8 | This is the first of two Tony's specials we're going to be running this month. |
| 1:06.0 | The first interview episode, which is very exciting. |
| 1:08.0 | We haven't done this at least while I've been here. |
| 1:11.0 | You spoke with the great Jonathan Groff, who was nominated this year from |
| 1:15.4 | Mary Lee We Roll Along, and I spoke with William Jackson Harper, who was |
| 1:20.0 | nominated for his performance in Uncle Vanya, the revival on Broadway, but he was also in the |
| 1:26.0 | Pulitzer Prize winning play Primary Trust earlier this season. |
| 1:29.6 | So he's had quite a year on the New York stage. But let's start with your conversation with Jonathan Groff. |
| 1:35.2 | I supposed to start Richard, we should talk about Maryly we roll along this kind of |
| 1:40.4 | epic long anticipated staging that went off pretty spectacularly. |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah, I mean the show itself has a sort of tortured history. |
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