Phyllis and her date, Ken Hanson, at the Tony Awards. Phyllis was asked in a 1986 interview if she was expecting the Tony Award nomination: "No, not at all. I didn't think that I was going to win after I was nominated either. I really thought that another girl who sang a duet with me (Terri Klausner) should've gotten the nomination. But to give a white girl a Tony Award nomination in a black show wouldn't make any sense. So for once, the tables were turned. I thought it was kinda cute. (She laug