Raul's comment about Company performance the Tuesday after the Tony Awards was from the Playbill Center Stage interview done in March. Here's what he had to say:
“And also the audience in New York was so, so thrillingly supportive, by the time we finished the show, by the time we finished the run of the show…I’ve never experienced anything quite like it. I mean, the day after the Tony Awards, our first performance back, wasn’t a…I don’t think it was a particularly great show on our part, we were all a little shell-shocked. We got the Tony Award and then they announced we were closing two days later. And, um, so we’re all sort of going through it, the audience that was there was very supportive of us, and we finished – we got to Being Alive, and I don’t know that it was any better than any other time we’ve done Being Alive, but it had a certain kind of fire to it. We finished it, and the audience begins to clap. They clapped for, I’d say about thirty seconds, and I remember standing there, and there’s some sort of real power coming from them, and then, um, I kinda glanced down at the first row, and when I glanced at the first row the entire theatre rose to their feet. And they gave us a standing ovation for two and a half minutes. And….the…we just wept, the whole cast. I started crying, the whole cast was crying, we couldn’t get through our lines. There was just this outpouring of…of…love coming to us from the New York audience that, I don’t think I’ll ever experience that again. I really don’t.”
(If you have the interview, it's just past 18 minutes)
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Updated On: 5/7/08 at 11:54 AM
