Joy Woods recalls working with Audra McDonald in the Broadway show 'Gypsy' while chatting with THR at the Tony Awards red carpet. Plus, she describes having a "real family" when it comes to her Broadway cast mates and production.
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00:00How special is it to be here tonight?
00:02It's so surreal.
00:04Everybody here is dressed in the nines.
00:07It's all of my, all of the legends, my personal icons.
00:12And it's raining out.
00:15What a combo. I feel great.
00:17Talk to me about working with the incomparable Audra McDonald
00:21and bringing this production to life.
00:23She's the best. She really is the best.
00:25And she's such a mom and real life and on stage.
00:28And Danny is, as well as a father, and Jordan as a sister,
00:32I feel like we legitimately have a real family in the building.
00:35And with the rest of the company, she is so wonderful to work with,
00:38and I'm learning so much. I feel so lucky.
00:41Well, it takes so much.
00:43I was just so wowed by your performance in it as well.
00:46And seeing you from the first half to the second half,
00:48it's such an intense show and character to take on and do eight shows a week.
00:53Do you have a pre-show or post-show ritual to kind of re-center you before each show?
00:59Um, pre-show, no, because I started dressed as Abraham Lincoln.
01:03So I think just whatever I show up as is okay.
01:07And I think after the show, I'm still learning what can get me back down to the ground.
01:15I know Audra says that she feels the same way.
01:17She's so wired after.
01:19You can't fall asleep until around 2 a.m.
01:21I'm still figuring it out.
01:23I don't want to get dependent on melatonin, but it's working right now.
01:26Now, outside of your own production,
01:28what is one show that you are currently obsessed with this season on Broadway?
01:33We could see poop.
01:34We could see poop.
01:35That's the movie.
01:36We could see poop.
01:48We could see poop.
01:51We could see poop.