Watch Jessica Lange, Kelli O’Hara, Cole Escola et al settle for their OCC Awards, quote their spouses, and debate evaluations – New York Theater

Under are among the speeches from the winners of the 73rd Outer Critics Circle Awards. held Thursday afternoon on the New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Heart. (Don’t know what the Outer Critics Circle is? Try my New York Theater Awards 2024 Information and Calendar)

 Let’s begin with the 5 winners of Outer Critic Circle Awards in appearing classes who’ve additionally been nominated for Tony Awards, providing a attainable preview of among the televised speeches on June sixteenth:

Excellent Lead Performer in a Broadway Play:
Jessica Lange – Mom Play

(She is nominated for a Tony for Greatest Actress for a Main Efficiency in a Play)

Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play:
William Jackson Harper – Major Belief
(He’s nominated for a Tony for Greatest Actor for a Main Efficiency in a Play, however for a unique play, Uncle Vanya)

Excellent Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical:
Kelli O’Hara – Days of Wine and Roses

(She is nominated for a Tony for Greatest Actress for a Main Efficiency in a Play)

Excellent Featured Performer in a Broadway Play:
Kara Younger – Purlie Victorious
(She is nominated for a Tony for Greatest Efficiency by an Actress in a Featured Position in a Play – the eighth for which she’s been nominated — she’s already received one — which is in distinction with the Outer Critics Circle. Till this 12 months, she’d by no means even be nominated, which she joked about in her speech.)

Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical:
Kecia Lewis – Hell’s Kitchen

(She is nominated for a Tony for Greatest Efficiency by an Actress in a Featured Position in a Musical)

Excellent Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play:
Cole Escola – Oh, Mary!

Cole Escola accepted his Outer Critics Circle Award for “Oh, Mary!” by way of video from what appeared like a lodge bed room. “I’ve been so silly fortunate – and silly silly.” (It’s not clear why he instructed the gang on the finish he would see them the following morning.)

Excellent Solo Efficiency:
Patrick Web page – All of the Devils are Right here

“I at all times dreamed I’d be a Shakespearean actor. “

I couldn’t assist noticing a number of themes within the speeches. One was a debate over whether or not they evaluate their evaluations. Jay O.Sanders mentioned by no means: “I don’t want your voices in my head. It’s nothing private. I simply don’t want anyone else’s objectivity in my head once I come on stage and be this character.” Patrick Web page (as you’ll be able to watch within the video above) mentioned at all times: The way in which I skilled nice performances was I might go to the Library on the College and so they had an excellent large e book. And it was stuffed with theater evaluations by Kenneth Tynan and by Walter Kerr, and by all the nice critics, and that’s how we skilled the nice performances of Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson. And John Gilbert, and James Earl Jones. And so I’ve at all times beloved theater critics. I by no means understood these actors who say I don’t learn evaluations “

Kelli O’Hara mentioned she has her husband do the studying.

Talking of which there have been loads of point out of spouses, some heartfelt, some amusing — a lot so I did one other video, which begins with Jessica Stone, director of “Water for Elephants” telling the gang: “My husband mentioned to me this morning, the Outer Critics are a lot nicer to you than your inside critic.”

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