VIDEO: True to Her Word, Kelli O'Hara DOES the Worm on Twitter

By: Jun. 10, 2015
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THE KING AND I's Kelli O'Hara took home the 2015 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical on Sunday night. Along with thanking her friends, family and colleagues in her nationally televised acceptance speech, the ecstatic actress also vowed that she would do the worm to celebrate her win.

True to her word, O'Hara turned to Twitter Tuesday night and posted a video of herself performing the iconic dance move in her dressing room, along with the caption, "So this had to happen tonight. Couldn't do it wearing Oscar de la Renta. Ladies and gents. The worm. W/thanks." Check it out below and watch her moving acceptance speech from the 2015 TONY AWARDS here:

O'Hara's previous Tony nominations were for South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza, The Bridges of Madison County, Nice Work If You Can Get It and The Pajama Game. O'Hara's other LCT credits include South Pacific (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations), The Light in the Piazza (Tony, OCC noms.).

On Broadway she has appeared in The Bridges of Madison County (Tony, DD, Drama League, OCC noms.), Nice Work If You Can Get It (Tony, DD, DL, OCC, Fred Astaire Award noms.), The Pajama Game (Tony, DD, OCC noms.), Sweet Smell of Success, Follies, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde. Metropolitan Opera credits includeThe Merry Widow. Off-Broadway/concerts: My Fair Lady, Carousel (Avery Fisher Hall/NY Philharmonic); Far From Heaven, My Life With Albertine (Playwrights Horizons); King Lear (Public); Bells Are Ringing (Encores!).

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