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“That’s the least of it. It truly is. During the entire time of my career, I’ve had one process. That is to read the script as many times as is humanly possible. In the reading, I learn who I am, and why am I in that piece. What purpose do I serve in forwarding the story of the writer? Once I do that and I understand why I’m there, the lines come. There are reasons to say the lines.” Though Tyson has won five NAACP Awards, A SAG Award and two Emmys – one of them for the lead role in the now classic TV movie “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” in 1974, this is her first Tony nomination. Sybil Wilkes, of The Tom Joyner Morning Show, who has seen the play, says she is rooting for Tyson to win.

“From your mouths to God’s ears. One thing I did not expect was the kind of love and attention and support I have gotten throughout this play. I mean to tell you that that the house is in the spirit and they participate, which is the most surprising. When I was told that the audience was singing with me I didn’t quite understand or believe it because I’m so focused on what’s going on onstage I did not hear it until after the opening when I relaxed and could sink into the part and be apart of all that’s around me. And I heard them singing. It is incredible.”

The Tony Awards air this Sunday, at 8 p.m. on CBS, live from Radio City Music Hall. “The Trip To Bountiful” continues its Broadway run at the Stephen Sondheim Theater.

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Cicely Tyson Earns Tony Nod for “Trip to Bountiful”  was originally published on blackamericaweb.com

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