All this week leading up to the Tony Awards, we are rolling out a daily video featuring a Colorado actor working on Broadway. No. 5: Castle Rock native Beth Malone, who starred in the DCPA Theatre Company’s new The Unsinkable Molly Brown last year and is now nominated for a Tony Award as Best Actress in a Musical for her work in Fun Home, the stage adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s 2006 graphic memoir that chronicles her coming out as a lesbian at the same time her closeted father committed suicide.

Malone graduated from Douglas County High School and the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. She talks with DCPA Senior Arts Journalist John Moore about how her life has changed in the past year – and since she was nominated for theatre’s highest prize. The surrealness crescendoed when she found herself eating lobster for breakfast with Sting. She also talks about the ways in which Fun Home is a groundbreaking Broadway musical, including being the first in history to feature a lesbian protagonist.

The 2015 Tony Awards will be presented at 7 p.m. on Sunday, June 7, on CBS-4 in Denver.

Video by John Moore. Photo at right: Beth Malone in the DCPA Theatre Company’s The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Photo by Jennifer M. Koskinen.

2015 Tony Awards
Sunday, June 1
7 p.m., CBS-4 in Denver 

Our Beth Malone photo gallery:

Our photos of Beth Malone when she as in Denver to perform in “The Unsinkable Molly Brown.” Photos by John Moore.

Our 2015 New York report (to date):
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

Beth Malone hopped over a fence in Times Square to help us get this shot where she plays off the Coors Light ad slogan: “Born in the Rockies. Lives in NYC.” Photo by John Moore.


Selected previous NewsCenter coverage of Beth Malone
Colorado’s Annaleigh Ashford and Beth Malone both nominated for Tony Awards
Video: Coloradans on Broadway to high-schoolers: ‘Be relentlessly yourself’
Denver’s Beth Malone returning to Broadway in Fun Home
The Unsinkable Molly Brown: Opening Night photos
Meet the Cast video series: Beth Malone
Your first look at The Unsinkable Molly Brown rehearsal
Video: Visiting with Denver Center’s new Molly Brown in Leadville, Colorado
Video: Beth Malone’s big day singing at the Denver Broncos game
Molly Brown will reunite local favorites Beth Malone, Patty Goble
Denver’s Molly Brown is Denver’s Beth Malone