Classroom of the Month: Word choice and empathy in Tabitha Cooper’s English Classroom
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Ellen Barkin Tag

Picture this: It's the big luncheon to honor the Tony Award nominees at the InterContinental Times Square hotel. The place is wall to wall with some of the finest actors, directors, composers, and set designers of our time. The event is closed to the media, but we've got the inside track on how some of these year's finest stage actors, producers, directions, musicians, and others who make Broadway buzz described the feeling of being told they've been nominated for a 2011 Tony Award—in just six words. As this storied group of Broadway talent, up-and-coming and luminary alike, sat down at their tables, they found a card with this request: "Can you describe what you are feeling, right now, in just six words?" Here are a few of their six-word reactions below, and in a wonderful video that follows. “Mormon is clearly the new black.” —Robert Lopez, best book and original score nominee, The Book of Mormon “I enlisted in Larry Kramer’s war.” —Ellen Barkin, actress nominee, The Normal Heart