25 days of Tonys: Why is this' Brandon Uranowitz saying the drama is its most liberating role yet

Video25 days of Tonys: Why Burned this‘ Brandon Uranowitz says the drama is its most liberating role yetThe three times Tony nominee also shares the title of his bio-musical and the two Tony Awards he would ask to write it.

“For me, the most significant thing is that I am gay in real life and that I am unapologetic about it and that I make no excuses. And I finally play a character that is unapologetically and fearless gay, so I just feel liberated every night,” says Brandon Uranowitzwhich earned a Tony nomination for that performance -like Larry in the Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s Burned this.

The role is Uranowitz’s third Tony nomination, but his first straight play on Broadway.

Just like playing a confident gay character, it also feels like trading a music for an intimate drama in a musical. “Singing gives me some anxiety,” Uranowitz recognizedthough you would never know it.

“I get a little frustrated if you sit in this music theater box as if you can’t do the other,” he goes on, “but as far as I’m concerned, it’s exactly the same. You are just up there and depict another person’s existence of as truly and authentic as possible. Whether they talk or sing, it’s the same. ‘

And it requires equal sophistication of crafts. Uranowitz makes Larry with equal parts Sass and compassion as the third roommate in the trio with Anna and Robbie, who tragically died in a boat accident. “It’s kind of the unique special thing to play Larry, and he’s not just really lost someone near him – Robbie, his roommate – but it’s 1987. He’s a gay man living in New York at the time. His community shrinks very quickly, “he says. “There is a lot of loss in his life, but he still manages to plant his feet on the ground and be this pillar of comfort and rational thinking for Anna and for Burton and for poles. And he puts his own suffering on the back burner. ‘

Although Wilson may have written as Anna’s built -in support system, Uranowitz centers the play in humor and sensitivity. Larry’s total embrace of himself (in Uranowitz’s agile hands) places the audience comfortable in the story of sadness and relationships.

“At the end of the night, I feel exhausted in the best way,” he says.

Watch the video above to find out the first child role of Uranowitz (Tip: it was in Fiddler on the roof), The show that most affected him, and the title of the musical about his life he wrote through two Tony Awards winners.

Videography and video editing by Roberto Araujo.

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Production Photos: The Revival of 2019 of Burn this on Broadway