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Kelli O'Hara Shares the Special Part of a Live Production | Tony Awards 2025
The Hollywood Reporter
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6/9/2025
At the 2025 Tony Awards, Kelli O'Hara chats with THR on the red carpet and describes the interaction between actors and audiences as the most special part of a live production. Plus, she reveals how she prepares for eight shows a week.
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Do you have a pre-show or post-show ritual that kind of re-centers you between shows?
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You know, I find that doing eight shows a week is when I'm the best version of myself.
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And I know that's crazy, but I think there's a personality that goes into this business,
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and you either have it or you don't.
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And I have an addiction for theater.
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I haven't done it since last spring, and I miss it like crazy.
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But because what it does is it, before the show,
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I center myself in a way that I try to get back to when I'm not doing shows,
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but that meditative moment when I'm just with myself, there is meditation,
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there's bodily stretches, there's a focus that happens in my life.
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And then I go and I share this moment with human beings, real human beings.
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And I think that it's such a drug, and I love it.
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It's just who I am.
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And that interactive element between performer and audience,
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is that the most special part of live theater for you?
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Absolutely.
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It's the energy that we give to each other.
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Whether it's, you know, complicated, there are questions.
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Whether it's filled with joy or tears or sorrow.
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I feel like when we're, the more and more we get used to, I do too,
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feeling and going through things myself, on my own, across the screen, or whatever it is,
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it's never going to be the same as a room filled with this sort of shared energy
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and where we're all feeling something at once.
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You know, back in the olden days, everybody would tune into the same show all across the country.
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It doesn't happen anymore.
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We're all in very different places.
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This is not so with live theater.
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You come in and you have a shared experience.
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And it might be only 800 people or 1,000, but it is incredibly,
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I think it's a beautiful gift to give yourself,
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whether or not you're in the audience or on the stage.
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You come in and you're in the audience or you're in the audience or you're in the audience.
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