One of those biases was around her body shape, said Milligan, as well as moving to New York with not much money and no professional connections. To stay with a business that right off the bat didn’t necessarily want you in it, and to fight against biases, was a hard path.” It’s everything, and hard to fully describe. There was a lot of ‘Finally’ and ‘We knew that this was going to happen.’ It was a beautiful and reaffirming day. “They’ve really seen all of my ups and downs, so they know what it meant. Milligan and a group of friends gathered at her apartment to hear the nominations.
I haven’t seen them all, so I’m sorry to anyone I haven’t responded to. I’ve never gotten so many text messages in my entire life. There’s been a lot of really cool stuff like that. I got a congratulatory text from Donna Murphy-my hero when I was a kid. “My feet were hurting, but it was an incredible honor. “I was elated at the junket,” Milligan laughed. We gotta win Best Musical! And I feel very competitive for Vicky (Victoria) Clark to win her category.” Everything else from here is a celebration of the work we’ve done. It feels like I already won getting nominated. At the Tonys junket day for all the nominees I wasn’t thinking who was competition.
“The competition is part of it, but what has been surprising to ‘Bonnie-who-can-be-competitive’ has been, for my mental health, to just show up every night and do the show, and actively shut out all other stuff. “Of course, everybody wants to win, let’s not lie, and I am a competitive person if we were playing a board game,” Milligan said of the award itself. He’s an important guy and has to get approval from generals to take leave. “I was like, OK, Mom, I got you.’” Milligan’s mother will be attending the event with Milligan’s older brother Tim, a National Guard warrant officer. “My mother reminded me of her request in November when the show opened,” Milligan told The Daily Beast, laughing. (Kim is played by Milligan’s good friend Victoria Clark, also Tony-nominated in the lead actress in a musical category.) Well, as maternally preordained, that moment has come, with Milligan nominated as the best-featured actress in a musical category for her role as the immensely funny, big-voiced con artist Aunt Debra in the Broadway musical Kimberly Akimbo (Booth Theatre, booking to Oct 8).ĭeb’s crackpot schemes are a key backdrop to her niece Kim’s determined bid to joyfully defy the misery of a life-threatening physical condition, and all the familial dysfunction that swirls around her. When Milligan was a teenager, Jeanie made her promise that when the day came-as only a devoted mother can be sure that it will-she would be Milligan’s date to the Tony Awards. Bonnie Milligan’s Tony Award nomination was no surprise to her mother Jeanie.
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