At the 76th TheTonyAwards, thealexnewell became the first openly nonbinary performer to win Broadway's biggest prize. A few days before the ceremony, they got on the phone with their sis ClarkMoore to reflect on the winding road to superstardom.
MOORE: Well, it’s funny because you’re coming right from Tony’s rehearsal.
MOORE: Speaking of memories, I remember the first day that I met you. We just celebrated our 10-year friend-iversary.MOORE: Well, because we’re getting to that point where a decade, it’s significant. I remember it was a dance rehearsal forwith Zach Woodley, the choreographer. I just remember I saw the door open in the mirror, and you walked in and everyone kind of changed. The energy sort of got tense. I ran over to my phone and I was like, “Alex Newell just walked into rehearsal.
MOORE: I see it happen all the time where people are just sort of in awe after you perform. But of course, entering a space as a queer person of color, there isn’t the same expectation from the other side. As your friend, it feels like you have to prove yourself every time you enter a room. Do you feel that?
NEWELL: It is, essentially. I did come here with absolutely nothing. I was flying to New York at any whim given moment. It got to a point where I was just like, “I guess I should be here.”NEWELL: I packed up. Well, my mother packed up my apartment, because I was filming something. I had a roommate for the first year that I was here. I kind of manifested. I had a goal. My goal was to be in a Broadway show when I moved to New York. And in that same year that I moved, I got my Broadway show.
NEWELL: It is truly a vengeance. I think I told you the story about my seventh or eighth-grade English teacher at that charter school that I went to where we were applying to schools, and she didn’t let me take the SSATs to get to apply to boarding schools. She said, “Honestly, your work ethic isn’t good enough to go to any of these schools.”NEWELL: I’ve always had that in the back of my mind. Now my work ethic is better than anybody’s.
NEWELL: It feels great, especially at the end of my number. I’m quite literally exhausted from screaming for three-and-a-half minutes. I’m working in overdrive. Anything that looks easy is the hardest. MOORE: I remember when you first started talking about this little play that was doing an out-of-town tryout in Utah, of all places. I remember helping you run lines for the audition in your living room uptown. I think it was the scene where your character and Maisie have this dizzying rapid-fire back and forth. I had to keep pausing because it was just so funny. And I remember you saying that that was a big part of why you chose to do this.t was the only reason why I said yes to it.
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