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Violet (musical)
''Violet'' is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori and libretto by Brian Crawley based on the short story " The Ugliest Pilgrim" by Doris Betts. It tells the story of a young disfigured woman who embarks on a journey by bus from her farm in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, all the way to Tulsa, Oklahoma in order to be healed. The musical premiered Off-Broadway in 1997 and won the Drama Critics' Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award as Best Musical. Productions ''Violet'' was developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Music Theater Conference in 1994. It premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on March 11, 1997, and closed on April 6, 1997. Directed by Susan H. Schulman with choreography by Kathleen Marshall, the cast featured Lauren Ward as Violet, Michael McElroy as Flick and Michael Park as Monty. Other cast members included Michael Medeiros, Stephen Lee Anderson, Amanda Posner and Robert Westenberg. It won the Drama Critics' Circle Award and Luc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanine Tesori
Jeanine Tesori, known earlier in her career as Jeanine Levenson, (born November 10, 1961) is an American composer and Arrangement, musical arranger best known for her work in the theater. She is the most prolific and honored female theatrical composer in history, with five Broadway musicals and six Tony Awards, Tony Award nominations. She won the 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play for Nicholas Hytner's production of ''Twelfth Night'' at Lincoln Center, the 2004 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music for ''Caroline, or Change'', the 2015 Tony Award for Best Original Score for ''Fun Home (musical), Fun Home'' (shared with Lisa Kron), making them the first female writing team to win that award, and the 2023 Tony Award for Best Original Score for Kimberly Akimbo (musical), ''Kimberly Akimbo'' (shared with David Lindsay-Abaire). She was named a Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist twice for ''Fun Home'' and ''Soft Power (musical), Soft Power.'' Her major works include ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Westenberg
Robert Westenberg (born October 26, 1953) is an American stage actor and singer, acting teacher, and professor. He received a Tony Award nomination for his performance in the original Broadway cast of ''Into the Woods''. He appeared on Broadway in ''Sunday in the Park with George'' (as the title role), ''Les Misérables'' (as Inspector Javert), ''Into the Woods'' (as The Big Bad Wolf and Cinderella’s Prince), ''The Secret Garden'' (as Dr. Neville Craven), as well as several other musicals. In 2024, he returned to the stage performing as a part of the United States national tour of ''A Beautiful Noise''. He was the musical theatre coordinator and associate professor in the theatre and dance department at Missouri State University and now serves as a lecturer of Musical Theatre at the University of Colorado Boulder. Early life and education Born in Miami Beach, Florida, but raised in Fresno, California, with his six siblings. Westenberg graduated Bullard High School in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized in letter case, lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events and styles related to the music industry. Its Billboard charts, music charts include the Billboard Hot 100, Hot 100, the Billboard 200, 200, and the Billboard Global 200, Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in various music genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm and operates several television shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Golden
Annie Golden (born October 19, 1951) is an American actress and singer. She first came to prominence as the lead singer of the punk band the Shirts from 1975 to 1981 with whom she recorded three albums. She began her acting career as Mother in the 1977 Broadway revival of ''Hair''; later taking on the role of Jeannie Ryan in the 1979 film version of the musical. Other notable film credits include ''Desperately Seeking Susan'' (1985), ''Baby Boom'' (1987), '' Longtime Companion'' (1989), '' Strictly Business'' (1991), '' Prelude to a Kiss'' (1992), ''12 Monkeys'' (1995), '' The American Astronaut'' (2001), '' It Runs in the Family'' (2003), '' Adventures of Power'' (2008), and '' I Love You Phillip Morris'' (2009). Golden is best known for portraying mute Norma Romano in the Netflix comedy-drama streaming television series ''Orange Is the New Black'' from 2013 to 2019. In 1985–1986 she appeared as the recurring character Tommy in ''Miami Vice'', and from 1989 to 1992 she port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Gemignani
Alexander Cesare Gemignani (born July 3, 1979) is an American actor, tenor, musician, and conductor, known for his work on Broadway. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in '' Carousel'' and a Drama Desk Award for his performance in '' Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.'' Early and personal life Gemignani is the son of Broadway musical director Paul Gemignani and soprano Carolann Page. He was raised in Tenafly, New Jersey and graduated from Tenafly High School in 1997. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan's Musical Theater Department. Gemignani was married in August 2008 to actor/director Erin Ortman. Career Gemignani is known for his roles in Broadway musicals, including '' Assassins'', '' Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'', ''Les Misérables'', '' Sunday in the Park with George'', and '' Carousel'', receiving a Tony Award nomination for the latter. His film and television credits include '' The Producers'', '' The G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Donnell
Colin Donnell (born October 9, 1982) is an American actor and singer known as Tommy Merlyn on ''Arrow'', Scotty Lockhart on '' The Affair'', Dr. Connor Rhodes on ''Chicago Med'' (2015–19), and Billy Crocker in '' Anything Goes''. He also starred in '' Irreverent'' and as Monty in ''Violet'' on Broadway. Early life and education Colin Donnell was born in St. Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of three boys. He has Irish and French ancestry. He played the guitar and took singing lessons when he was 17. His introduction to the stage was in high school where he was a part of the choir and was in the background juggling and doing circus tricks, which led to being part of his first school musical production of '' Barnum''. Donnell graduated from Indiana University Bloomington in 2005. Career Donnell has been part of many national stage tours, such as '' Mamma Mia!'' and '' Wicked''. His first Broadway Theatre performance was in ''Jersey Boys'' as Hank Mejewski. His other stage credi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charing Cross Theatre
The Charing Cross Theatre is an Off West End theatre under The Arches off Villiers Street below Charing Cross station. Founded in 1936, the venue occupied several premises in the West End of London before locating to its present site. The current site, from 1946 to 2002, presented Victorian-style music hall under the name Players' Theatre. It was refurbished in 2005 and reopened under new management in 2006 as The New Players Theatre, before being taken under new management by Broadway producer Steven M. Levy and Sean Sweeney in 2011, when the theatre changed its name to the Charing Cross Theatre, with the Players Bar & Kitchen. It is one of the smallest West End Theatres, rebuilt to meet the demands of national and international producers wanting a theatre which offers a degree of intimacy and is the equivalent in size of an off-Broadway space. With the appointment of Thom Southerland as Artistic Director in 2016, Charing Cross Theatre announced it was turning into a produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leigh Silverman
Leigh Silverman is an American director for the stage, both off-Broadway and on Broadway. She was nominated for the 2014 and 2024 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for the musicals '' Violet'' and '' Suffs'', and the 2008 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play for the play ''From Up Here''. Biography Early life Silverman was born in Rockville, Maryland on December 18th, 1974, went to high school in Washington, D.C., and attended Carnegie Mellon University, earning a BFA in Directing and an MFA in Playwriting. Upon graduation, she had an internship at the New York Theatre Workshop. Silverman said "I can say, without a doubt, that most, if not all, of my important theatrical relationships came out of my time with New York Theater Workshop." Career Silverman directed the Lisa Kron play '' Well'' off-Broadway at The Public Theater; the play ran from March 2004 to May 2004. She also directed ''Well'' on Broadway in 2006. Among other awards, the play was nomina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Airlines Theatre
The Todd Haimes Theatre (previously known as the American Airlines Theatre and originally the Selwyn Theatre) is a Broadway theater at 227 West 42nd Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. Built in 1918, it was designed by George Keister and developed by brothers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn, for whom the theater was originally named. The theater is owned by the city and state governments of New York and leased to New 42nd Street. It has 740 seats across two levels and is operated by Roundabout Theatre Company. The Selwyn Theatre was designed in the Italian Renaissance style, with a brick-and-terracotta facade. The auditorium, which is on 43rd Street, had been accessed from the six-story Selwyn Building on 42nd Street, which collapsed at the end of 1997. The modern theater is accessed through the ten-story New 42nd Street Building, which has an illuminated steel-and-glass facade. The fan-shaped auditorium is designed in a blue-a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Sieber
Christopher Luverne Sieber (born February 18, 1969) is an American actor. Known primarily for his extensive roles on stage in musicals, he has received nominations for two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, and two Outer Critics Circle Awards. He was twice nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical first at the 59th Tony Awards in 2005 for his portrayal of Sir Dennis Galahad in ''Spamalot'', and then at the 63rd Tony Awards in 2009 for his portrayal of Lord Farquaad in '' Shrek the Musical''. He recently starred in Broadway productions of '' The Prom'' (2018), ''Company'' (2021), and ''Death Becomes Her'' (2024). Early life and education Christopher Sieber was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, to Fred and Caron Sieber. He is the middle child of three. Mike, his older brother, was a swimmer, and his younger brother, Marc, was in drama alongside him. He is a 1988 graduate of Forest Lake Area High School in Forest Lake, Minnesota, and was inducted into t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keala Settle
Keala Settle (born November 5, 1975) is an American actress and singer. Settle originated the role of Norma Valverde in '' Hands on a Hardbody'', which ran on Broadway in 2013, and was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk Award, and Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. In 2016 she was in the original Broadway cast of ''Waitress'' portraying Becky. In 2017, she portrayed Lettie Lutz, a bearded lady, in the musical film ''The Greatest Showman''. The song "This Is Me" from the film, principally sung by Settle, won the 2017 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Early life, family and education Settle was born in Hawaiʻi, the eldest of five children to Susanne Ti Settle (née MacDonald/Makitanara), an indigenous Māori born and raised in New Zealand ( Ngāti Rangitāne, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Kahungunu), and British-born David James Settle. She is a graduate of Kahuku High School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Henry
Joshua Anthony Charlton Henry (born September 2, 1984) is a Canadian-American actor and singer of stage and screen. He is best known for starring as Billy Bigelow in the third Broadway revival of ''Carousel'' and as Haywood Patterson in Kander and Ebb's '' The Scottsboro Boys'', both of which earned him Tony Award nominations. He has also received a Tony Award nomination for his role of Flick in '' Violet''. Henry starred in the lead role of Aaron Burr in the first United States national tour of ''Hamilton'', previously playing the role in the Chicago production in 2016. His other notable performances include Dr. Jim Pomatter in the Broadway restaging of ''Waitress'', Rapunzel’s Prince in the second Broadway revival of ''Into the Woods'', Gaston in '' Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration'', and Coalhouse Walker Jr. in New York City Center’s ''Ragtime''. He also portrayed Jake in the 2011 Broadway production of ''Porgy and Bess'' and Noble Sissle in the original Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
