Elisabeth Vincentelli

Apologies to our British listeners.

I did not realize.

No apology to them.

Get better performers.

What would you say was the big story that changed that?

Was it Hamilton or was it before Hamilton?

Another thing, I mean, this is kind of dated, but when you interview actors, Broadway performers, I think 100% of them refer to seeing the Tony Awards show.

Yes.

As the way they knew that they had to be a performer.

Please talk a little bit about this.

Well, you know, I don't know whether that's a good thing generally.

But it is a true thing.

I mean, there are obviously economically there's too many actors and not enough shows.

But nevertheless, it is an amazing way to see what's going on and to feel in a way part of it, just like any awards show can be.

You're seeing actual live staged numbers, not just clips.

And often they are staged by the director of the show himself or herself, so they have incredible authenticity to the staged experience.

I have been very moved, even having seen the show, some of the shows two or three times to see them again in that format and also to think about what it would mean to be a young person experiencing some pretty quality stuff in that way.

And all of them are available quite easily on YouTube and places like that.

Well, two things were going on at once.

One is that people, you could see the work of people anywhere in the world suddenly, which even if you lived in New York, you couldn't really do that.