Good factor Angelina Jolie listened to an pressing advice by her daughter, Vivienne: The Oscar-winning actress simply took residence her first Tony for producing The Outsiders: A New Musical.
Jolie took the stage Sunday on the Tony Awards ceremony along with her 15-year-old daughter, who was the one who inspired her mother to see a staging of the musical in La Jolla, CA. Vivienne Jolie-Pitt additionally contributed notes on the hit Broadway model, as did Jolie.
Producer Matthew Rego gave a selected shout-out to Jolie, one in all a number of who made the musical a actuality, when he accepted the Tony. He additionally name-checked The Outsiders creator S.E. Hinton, who was within the viewers. Set in Tulsa in 1967, The Outsiders is the story of 14-year-old Ponyboy Curtis, his two brothers and finest buddy Johnny – the Greasers – as they battle to get by and stand tall in opposition to the prosperous rival group the Socs.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 16: (L-R) Vivienne Jolie-Pitt
and Angelina Jolie attend the 77th Annual Tony Awards at David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Middle on June 16, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Photos)
“Susie Hinton wrote The Outsiders 60 years in the past and he or she has acquired accolades ever since. However she usually says that she nonetheless will get overwhelmed when instructed that The Outsiders modified somebody’s life as a result of she’ll say, who may need modified anybody’s life? It’s the e book. It’s not the creator. It’s the message, not the messenger. Nicely Susie, I’m right here to let you know that your story and its everlasting message of affection and household and staying gold has eternally modified all of our lives. We love you.”
Jolie didn’t communicate on stage, nor was she current backstage for reporters after the Tonys. Bummer.
In a latest dialogue with Deadline, Jolie defined how she first grew to become concerned with the musical.
“My daughter Viv loves theater. She appreciates all theater however she definitely is aware of what she feels near and what she responds to. She went to see The Outsiders at La Jolla about 5 instances and was telling me about it, and I had learn the e book, and I’d seen the movie years in the past. Then she requested me to return see it along with her, and I believed it was only a…you realize, Danya speaks of how essential it’s to youngsters, the way it was written by anyone who’s the age of my daughter, proper? So, actually, as a mom, as an individual, I used to be watching it, however I used to be actually watching the impact it was having on my younger daughter and what she was telling me about herself, and I used to be studying what about it was essential to her and why it linked so deeply to her.”
“So, it was a really completely different expertise of understanding, of how that is having a major impact on her as a youngster proper now, and he or she’s speaking one thing to me, and that’s the energy of this materials, which was in actually good condition even by then,” Jolie continued. “After which I had the privilege of watching everybody work over this final 12 months to make it into what it’s, and Vivienne has been there the entire approach.”
Outsiders director Danya Taymor added that “Angelina was within the room so much, so much, and offering not simply help, but additionally unimaginable suggestions, not simply to me, though undoubtedly to me and like, an actual champion of conserving the imaginative and prescient potent and brave and brutal just like the e book, however she additionally was there for the actors.”
“You realize, we had lots of people making their Broadway debuts, lots of people getting into the highlight for the primary time, and he or she was extremely beneficiant in sharing her expertise,” Taymor continued. “And you realize, technical rehearsals within the theater usually are not for the faint of coronary heart. They’re lengthy days, and it moved me a lot that Angelina was there, as a result of that’s the way you earn individuals’s belief, and he or she gave us that. She had a lot pores and skin within the recreation and a lot curiosity about all of it, and identical factor with Vivienne. Vivienne would watch the present and provides me probably the most superb notes. Like, unimaginable eye. So, it was an exquisite, great help, and in addition, clearly, made the work higher.”
Matthew Murphy