Of all the Tony Award nominations that were announced today, the one that means the most to me went to John Douglas Thompson for his performance in the Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Jitney. Needless to say, John has also appeared—and will continue to appear—in my own Satchmo at the Waldorf, performing the demanding triple role of Louis Armstrong, Joe Glaser, and Miles Davis, for which he won the Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards when Satchmo ran off Broadway in 2014.
Congratulations, friend and colleague. I hope you’ll have another statuette to put on your mantelpiece come June 11.