Meet the 2017 Tony Awards Nominees: Best Featured Actress in a Musical

It's Tony Awards season! With so many beautiful and powerful performances, I thought it would be fun to learn a little bit more about the nominees in each category and their journey leading up to the big night on June 11th.

1st up: Best Featured Actress in a Musical

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Meet Kate Baldwin

Hello Dolly!

Hometown: Evanston, Illinois

Training: Northwestern University

Big Break: A career filled with both Broadway and regional theatre credits, Kate made her Broadway debut in "The Full Monty" (2000), followed by "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (2002), "Wonderful Town" (2003),"Finian's Rainbow" (2009; Tony nomination), and "Big Fish" (2013).

Fun Fact: Kate has had a life-long love of Bette Midler. At 13, she performed “The Rose” at her middle school talent show. At Northwestern, one of her musical theatre technique class assignments was to choose a song and lip-sing to it. She chose “The Glory of Love.” When she was asked to audition for “Rent,” she went to her go-to diva’s songbook for an audition song and chose “The Song of Bernadette.”

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Meet Stephanie J. Block

Falsettos

Hometown: Brea, California