We got five minutes on the phone with Tony Award winner Annaleigh Ashford today in a New York taxi cab on her way to the airport. Ashford, 29, was honored with theatre’s highest prize tonight for her widely praised role as the eccentric ballet dancer Essie opposite James Earl Jones in the Broadway revival of You Can’t Take It With You. Just push play above.

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Also, watch Ashford’s acceptance speech from Radio City Music Hall:

Our 2015 New York report (to date):
Annaleigh Ashford brings Tony Award home to Colorado
Colorado’s Annaleigh Ashford and Beth Malone both nominated for Tony Awards
Ashford: From Ruthless to the Good Girl of Tony Town
Our exclusive interview with Annaleigh Ashford
Video: Coloradans in New York: Beth Malone
Video: Coloradans on Broadway: Aisha Jackson
Video: Coloradans in New York: Playwright Max Posner
Video: Coloradans on Broadway: Actor Rebecca Eichenberger
Video: Coloradans on Broadway to high-schoolers: ‘Be relentlessly yourself’
Lin-Manuel Miranda on the power of theatre to eliminate distance
Broadway: The British aren’t coming: They’re already here!
Colorado’s Annaleigh Ashford and Beth Malone both nominated for Tony Awards Broadway League dedicates New York conference to DCPA’s Randy Weeks
Idina Menzel will launch ‘If/Then’ national tour in Denver
Photos: Annaleigh Ashford’s return to Denver for Lost in the Stars
Video: Watch Annaleigh perform at Miscast in New York