Nominee Reactions: Danny Burstein '6am in LA but Damn Good!'

The 2012 Tony Awards Nominations were announced this morning by Tony winning actress Kristin Chenoweth and Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor Jim Parsons. The Tony Awards will be broadcast in a live three-hour ceremony from the Beacon Theatre, on the CBS television network on Sunday, June 10, 2012.

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"I feel pretty damn good! I'm exhausted because it's six in the morning here in LA, but it still feels pretty damn good! My phone started buzzing and I ran to my computer because I wasn't sure. People were texting me and saying 'I'm crossing my fingers to you' and stuff like that. So, I ran to my computer and because we're in this housing, first you have to enter your log in information and I couldn't get it to work. I'm like 'Why now?!" I finally got it to work and it was only after a friend sent me a text saying 'CONGRATULATIONS' that I thought 'Thank God!' I'm in tech right now so I'll spend the rest of the day in tech until midnight, but for this I'll do it!"

Danny was nominated for a 2006 Tony Award for the role of Aldolpho in the original Broadway production of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE (also Cast Recording). He spent three seasons as an original company member of Tony Randall's National Actors Theater - credits there include: THREE MEN ON A HORSE (w/ Jack Klugman & Tony Randall), SAINT JOAN (w/ Maryann Plunkett & John Neville), THE SEAGULL (w/ Jon Voight & Tyne Daly), A LITTLE HOTEL ON THE SIDE (w/ Lynn Redgrave) and THE FLOWERING PEACH (w/ Eli Wallach & Anne Jackson).

He was also seen on Broadway in A CLASS ACT; TITANIC; and COMPANY (also Cast Recording). Off-Broadway: the world premiere of A. R. Gurney's MRS. FARNSWORTH (opposite Sigourney Weaver & John Lithgow) at the Flea; the world premiere of PSYCH at Playwrights Horizons; I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE (also Cast Recording) at the Westside; the revival of Sondheim's MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (also Cast Recording) at the York; ALL IN THE TIMING at the Houseman; Alan Menken & David Spencer's WEIRD ROMANCE (also Cast Recording) at the WPA; THE ROTHSCHILDS & HELLO MUDDAH, HELLO FADDUH - both at Circle in the Square; THE UNITED WAY at Ensemble Studio Theater; A CLASS ACT at Manhattan Theater Club; the Ira Gershwin CENTENNIAL (taped for PBS) & SAIL AWAY (w/ Elaine Stritch) - both performed at Carnegie Hall and Du BARRY WAS A LADY (w/ Robert Morse & Faith Prince), LI'L ABNER & THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE (also Cast Recording) - all with the Encores! Series at City Center. Other credits include: GREASE, SHOWBOAT (w/ Eddie Bracken), THE MUSIC MAN (w/ Jim Dale) and FUNNY GIRL (w/ Juliet Prowse & Larry Kert); OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD (directed by Andre Serban); THE HOMECOMING (directed by William Ball); the American premiere of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE at the Ahmanson in Los Angeles (Ovation Award nomination); the world premiere of Barry Manilow's HARMONY (Drama-Logue Award) & MACBETH (directed by Des McAnuff) - both at the La Jolla Playhouse; the world premiere of Henry Kreiger & Bill Russell's EVERYTHING'S DUCKY at TheatreWorks; the world premiere of THE MISSION HOME at New Jersey's Forum Theater; SHENANDOAH (w/ John Cullum) at the St. Louis MUNY; FIDDLER... (w/ Theodore Bikel); PETER PAN (w/ Cathy Rigby); the world premiere of HAROLD & MAUDE (with Estelle Parsons) at the Paper Mill Playhouse; he narrated Mendelssohn's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM for the Alabama Symphony and was featured in the world premiere of TIME AND AGAIN at The Old Globe in San Diego (directed by Jack O'Brien).

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