VIDEO: Composer Jeanine Tesori Gives Thanks for Tony Wins at FUN HOME Curtain Call

Last night, the cast of Fun Home took their curtain call for the first time since winning five Tony Awards, including BEST MUSICAL, at Sunday night's ceremony.

Following the bows, Jeanine Tesori, who won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Original Score, joined the cast and shared her thoughts on the Tony honors. "What happened Sunday night was so important", said the composer. Watch the video!

Tesori also composed the scores to the Broadway productions of Violet, Caroline, or Change (2004 Tony nomination for Best Original Score), Shrek the Musical (Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations for her music) and Thoroughly Modern Millie (2000).

Her Off-Broadway musical Violet, (Obie Award, New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical, and Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical), opened on Broadway last season starring Sutton Foster. Her recent Off-Broadway musical, Fun Home, a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, played a sold-out run at the Public Theater last season, and will open on Broadway in the spring. She has written music for several plays, including Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center (Tony Nom. for best score), John Guare's A Free Man of Color, and Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, which was part of the 2006 Shakespeare in the Park season and starred Meryl Streep.

Her film scores include Nights in Rodanthe, Every Day, and You're Not You. Her opera, A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck (libretto by Tony Kushner) premiered at Glimmerglass Festival in 2011 and her newest opera, The Lion, the Unicorn and Me, had its world premiere run at D.C.'s Washington National Opera in December 2013. She is the creative director and co-founder (with Idina Menzel) of A Broader Way Foundation, an immersive arts education program for girls from underserved communities of New York City. She is the founding artistic director of Encores! Off-Center at New York City Center and is a lecturer in music at Yale University.

Fun Home, the highly-anticipated, Award-winning American musical, opened at the Circle in the Square Theatre (235 West 50th Street) on April 19th. The show features music by four-time Tony Award nominee Jeanine Tesori, a book and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Lisa Kron and direction by Drama Desk nominee Sam Gold.

The cast of Fun Home includes Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris, three-time Tony Award nomineeJudy Kuhn,Beth Malone, Obie Award-winner Sydney Lucas, Emily Skeggs, Roberta Colindrez, Zell Steele Morrow, Joel Perez,Oscar Williams, Lauren Patten, Gabriella Pizzolo, Marrick Smith, Jim Stanek, and Nicole Van Giesen.

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