Interview with Tony Award Winner Karen Olivo

What does it feel like to win the Tony Award, Broadways highest honor? TonyAwards.com (and TheaterMania) correspondent found out on Sunday, June 7 as she interviewed the nights big winners from inside the Rainbow Room just minutes after they won the Tony. Here is Valerie speaking with Karen Olivo.

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Entertainment

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• 2009 Tony Awards
• Karen Olivo
• Valerie Smaldone
• Award Winners
• West Side Story

[TheDancerGuy]

She so deserves this. She is one of the most incredible Broadway actresses out there.

[rhino79]

I just saw West Side Story today and after the show I saw Karen walking down the street. I asked her if she would please autograph my Playbill. But I didn't have a pen! She was so sweet and nice. She dug through her own purse to find a pen. I felt like a jerk, but she couldn't have been nicer. And in person she is strikingly beautiful.

[Urcolombian19]

i don't find anything in west side story she should come back to in the heights she rocks there

[broadwaystar2011]

Haha. She is amaazing and diserved that like no other!! Can you imagine going through all of these interviews knowing there is this huge party afterwards!? Haha. LOVE HER!

[whitetiefilms]

She is so talented, and she's completely right. There are no winners in theatre. Everyone deserves the award just as much. And Karen really gives forward just a TINY bit more than other performers. I don't know why I feel that way, but she just puts forward so much.

[gayputa]

i think so but in a interview she said she was puertorican thats why i put that but if she is all that wow thats cool.

[LeBronP]

isn't she dominican and chinese also? That's an awesome mix

[gayputa]

beutifulll strong puertorican diva...thas what im talking about.

[TheDancerGuy]

It's great when actors with so much talent are modest. I hate stuck up actors. Just because you win an award doesn't mean that you are better than everyone else. Well, she is though

[KaiGuent]

I know. She's so modest about it all too.