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- Chris Colfer informed ipromiseyoumedia in an unique chat that he is “very proud” of Darren Criss, with whom he starred on Glee, for his current huge Tony Award win
- Criss, who performed Blaine reverse Colfer’s Kurt on the musical teen dramedy present, took residence the Finest Actor in a Musical trophy for his function as Oliver in Possibly Blissful Ending on Broadway
- “The present’s so good, and I am so glad he received as a result of the get together was that rather more enjoyable afterwards,” Colfer tells ipromiseyoumedia
Chris Colfer is giving Darren Criss his flowers.
The actor and writer sang his former Glee costar’s praises following Criss’ huge Tony Awards win in a dialog with ipromiseyoumedia on Thursday, June 12, throughout the opening evening of Jean Sensible’s one-woman Broadway play Name Me Izzy at Studio 54 in New York Metropolis.
“[I’m] very proud. Very, very proud,” says Colfer, 35, who shaped one half of “Klaine” as Kurt Hummel, reverse Criss’ Blaine Anderson, on Glee. Their characters dated and ultimately married on the musical teen dramedy sequence that ran on Fox for six seasons, from 2009 to 2015.
Of the function Criss, 38, performs in Possibly Blissful Ending on Broadway — which nabbed him the Finest Actor in a Musical trophy on the Tonys on Sunday, June 8 — Colfer says, “He is unimaginable within the present.”
“The present’s so good, and I am so glad he received as a result of the get together was that rather more enjoyable afterwards,” he provides.
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Criss received the Tony for his function as Oliver in Possibly Blissful Ending, beating Andrew Durand for Useless Outlaw, Tom Francis for Sundown Blvd., fellow Glee alum Jonathan Groff for Simply in Time, James Monroe Iglehart for A Great World: The Louis Armstrong Musical and Jeremy Jordan for Floyd Collins.
After taking the stage at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor in New York Metropolis, Criss quipped in his acceptance speech, “Numerous people acquired me right here,” in reference to the robotic character he performs within the present.
The actor devoted his win to spouse Mia, with whom he shares daughter Bluesy, 3, and son Brother, 2.
“The true hero about this for this exceptional journey is my spouse, Mia, who took a large swing on permitting me to do that,” Criss stated in his speech. “To permit this loopy upheaval in our life, to make this logistically potential, and for bearing the brunt of elevating two tiny associates beneath three, in order that I might increase a singing robotic on the Belasco Theatre eight occasions every week.”
Spinning the wheel of his Tony statuette, he smiled, including, “You are the very pedestal that upholds the shiny spinny bit in our lives, and your love and your assist for me and our lovely kids, mixed with the miracle of engaged on one thing as magical as Possibly Blissful Ending, has been and can all the time be award sufficient.”
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Talking with ipromiseyoumedia on Thursday, Colfer mirrored on Glee‘s legacy, and the way one reminiscence he’ll always remember is “assembly all of the superb visitor stars” that appeared on the present.
“I am nonetheless associates with lots of them. And that was by far the best a part of the expertise, was assembly residing legends,” he says.
A few of these he nonetheless retains in contact with essentially the most? “Carol Burnett, Shirley MacLaine,” Colfer says. “June Squibb is one among my greatest associates in the entire world; simply noticed her a number of nights in the past. Kristin Chenoweth, adore.”
“We had been so blessed to have all that expertise on the present,” he provides.
