Watch Actress Ali Stroker’s Inspiring Acceptance Speech
Jun 10, 2019, 11:46 AM
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 09: Ali Stroker accepts the Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical award for Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! onstage during the 2019 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 9, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)
(Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)
We love this! In case you missed it, there was an exceptionally inspiring acceptance speech at the Tony Award’s Sunday night when Ali Stroker made history by becoming the first actor in a wheelchair to win theater’s biggest honor, dedicating her win to kids with disabilities
She won the Tony for playing Ado Annie in the Broadway revival of the musical “Oklahoma!.” Stroker lost the use of her legs in a car accident when she was 2 years old.
