Biondolillo, June 14 -- The day after the 79th Tony Awards, Sam Biondolillo had a flight to catch back to New London, Connecticut, where he teaches a summer theater workshop at Connecticut College. He also had a Tony, won the night before as a producer on Best Musical Schmigadoon, in a carry-on. The combination is unusual enough that local affiliates spent the weekend lining up to talk to him.

by his own description "underdressed by Broadway standards" - and made the trip onstage with the rest of the producing team when Christine Schwarzman and Lorne Michaels accepted the Best Musical statuette.

"You go in pretending you have not thought about what you would say," Biondolillo told News 12 Connecticut at his New London office on Tuesday....