Jonathan Groff received on the 2024 Tony Awards, and his Merrily We Roll Alongside co-star couldn’t have been extra supportive of him.
Groff had been overjoyed earlier within the present when Radcliffe received within the Featured Actor in a Musical class, and the Harry Potter alum reacted the identical means when Groff received.
As Groff walked to the stage, he crossed paths with Radcliffe they usually embraced one another.
“I grew up in a home surrounded by cornfields in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. I used to be raised by my dad and mom, Jim and Julie Groff, and my brother David, and the three of them are sitting proper there,” Groff stated as he learn his ready speech from a bit of paper. “Thanks for letting me gown up like Mary Poppins once I was three. Thanks for letting me act out scenes from I Love Lucy on my tenth birthday. Thanks for at all times permitting my freak flag to fly with out ever making me really feel bizarre about it. Even when they didn’t at all times perceive me, my household knew the life-saving energy of fanning the flame of a teenager’s passions with out judgment.”
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Groff continued and stated “musical theater remains to be saving my soul.” He thanked the musical’s director, Maria Friedman, “for letting me be your Franklin Shepherd on this manufacturing and permitting me the possibility to simply accept respect and specific each the very best and darkest elements of myself.”
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The actor went on to reward his co-stars, Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez, saying, “You’re greater than previous mates; you might be soulmates, and I’m wanting ahead to watching one another change for the remainder of our lives.”
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“And at last, I simply wish to say once I was a child in Pennsylvania, I used to report the Tony Awards on a VHS tape and watch the performances over and over,” Groff stated. “And to really be capable of be part of making theater on this metropolis. And simply as a lot to have the ability to watch the work of this unbelievable, unbelievable neighborhood has been the best present and pleasure of my life.”
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Watch moments of Groff’s acceptance speech beneath.