Very proud of my wife today for her hard work on The Notebook: The Musical. For her, being a book writer was kind of an invisible job - that is, if you’re doing it right it’s not really noticed. So I know she feels very lucky to have been honored in this way.
It’s a strange thing to parse out the pieces of a collaborative work like this, being that the actors and book are very directly related to the music and direction and design and everything else that goes into it.
On the set of a network procedural, I thanked the director for his help in getting me to where I needed to be, and he kept chalking it up to, “well it’s a collaborative art,” kind of saying - ‘you did this too, and everyone else, no other way it can happen’. It’s true. Which is why those awards shows take so damn long. So many people to thank.
And lets be real - nobody loves a good award show like the entertainment industry. We’re out here congratulating each other left and right. We really do need the validation though - we’re not making something that lasts or that you can tangibly hold. We need the validation as fuel to convince us to keep going on to the next thing.
Also - now a great thing that will never/immediately get old is I can introduce Bekah as my ‘Tony nominated wife’.