Occupation Actor, singer Spouse Dori Rosenthal (m. 2005) | Role Actor Name Anthony Crivello | |
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Parents Josephine Crivello, Vincent J. Crivello Movies Les Miserables: The Drea, Trade, Independence Day, Alien Hunter, "Crocodile" Dundee II Similar People Barrett Wilbert Weed, Michael Maguire, Kevin Murphy, Brent Carver, Chita Rivera | ||
Anthony crivello wins 1993 tony award for best featured actor in a musical
Anthony Crivello (born August 2, 1955) is an American actor and singer. He has won numerous theatre awards, including the 1993 Tony for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical. He has written several scripts and more than twenty songs.
Contents
- Anthony crivello wins 1993 tony award for best featured actor in a musical
- Anthony Crivello Official Reel
- Personal life
- Behind the scenes
- Theater career
- Television and film
- Stage appearances
- Discography
- Television
- Filmography
- References
Anthony Crivello - Official Reel
Personal life
Crivello was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Josephine (née Mussomeli) and Vincent J. Crivello. He graduated from Saint Thomas More High School (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) in 1973 and was inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame in 1995. In the Milwaukee area, he appeared in productions at Sunset Playhouse directed by Alan Furlan. He married actress Dori Rosenthal on May 14, 2005, and they have two children together.
Behind the scenes
Mr. Crivello is an experienced writer for film, TV, music, and theater. He has co-written a comedic screenplay, based on a story he conceived entitled Scouting Patti Style. Mr. Crivello wrote the book and lyrics for Allegoria-An Irreverent Fairy Tale Musical. Additionally, he is working on a musical-opera for the stage entitled Lucrece as well as the sitcom The Chicken Brothers. Crivello directed the workshop production of John Kassir's one-man play Confessions of A TV Junkie. He also co-authored and directed the one-man stage play Hear What's In The Heart starring actor Steve Scionti.
He is currently writing a one-man play The King Of Sicily.
Mr. Crivello is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America.
Mr. Crivello is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio (NYC/LA). His past acting teachers include: Tony Greco, Estelle Parsons, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau as well as Michael Howard, Terry Schreiber and Mary H. Strong. His vocal coach for over thirty years is Anne Perillo /DePaul University. He studied comic improv with Del Close at the famed The Second City in Chicago.
Mr. Crivello is an Honored Member of Marquette University's Century of Scholarship. He was the recipient of Marquette University's College of Speech & Communications distinguished 2003 Communicator of the Year Award. He is listed in Who's Who in America, and is an outstanding member of the Saint Thomas More High School Alumni Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Marquette University Hall of Fame with his likeness on a plaque at Johnston Hall in the Diederich College of Communication on the campus of Marquette University. A character of his likeness can also be found on the walls of the famed Sardi's Restaurant in New York City. He has the honor of being subject matter for the great New York Times caricature artist Al Hirschfeld four times.
In 2008, Mr. Crivello was the host of his own radio show on FOX SPORTS/ 920 AM Las Vegas called ''Tony Crivello and The Sicilians''.
Theater career
Crivello has the distinction of being an original cast of a number of Broadway and Off-Broadway plays and musicals. Original Broadway casts include: Les Misérables, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Golden Boy, Marie Christine The News. Original Off-Broadway casts include The Juniper Tree and Heathers: The Musical. He has also performed comic improv Off-Broadway and is a resident company alumni of Chicago City Limits in New York City.
In 1978, Crivello originated the role of "Felix 'The Filth Fiend' Linder" in the original cast of John R. Powers' Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? at Chicago's Forum Theater. He was then cast in the 2nd National Touring company of Evita by director Harold Prince in 1980, receiving glowing reviews for his performance as Che. Subsequently, he made his Broadway debut as a replacement for Mandy Patinkin in the original Broadway production of Evita in 1981, taking over the starring role of "Che" for which he also received critical praise. <http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Evita_(musical)>
Shortly thereafter, he appeared Off-Broadway in Wendy Wasserstein's The Juniper Tree as well as The Lincoln Center production of Shakespeare's Measure For Measure directed by Mark Lamos.
He then appeared in the Broadway musical "The News" as "the Killer". He was an original Broadway cast member of Alan Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg's Les Misérables for directors Trevor Nunn and John Caird and producer Cameron Mackintosh... first as Grantaire, and ten months later taking over the leading role of Javert. He continued his prominence in leading roles on Broadway as "Valentin" in the Kander and Ebb Terrance McNally musical Kiss of the Spider Woman (musical) in 1993 directed by Harold Prince, for which he was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award while in try-outs in Toronto. Crivello then won Broadway's 1993 Tony Award as "Best Featured Actor in a Musical." In 1999, he starred opposite Audra McDonald in Michael John LaChiusa's Marie Christine directed by Graciela Daniele at The Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater. Two years later, he received a Los Angeles Ovation Award nomination, a Garland Award nomination, a Robby Award nomination, and a L.A. Drama Critics Award nomination for "Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in the musical" for Do I Hear a Waltz? at the Pasadena Playhouse directed by David Lee.
He starred in the Goodman Theater of Chicago production of The House Of Martin Guerre for which he received Chicago's Joseph Jefferson Award for his portrayal of Martin Guerre. In August 2005, he appeared at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, California in a workshop production of Zhivago, a musicalization of the Boris Pasternak novel by Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon directed by Des McAnuff. He starred in the Steve Martin adaptation of The Underpants at the Geffen Playhouse, directed by John Rando... as well as David Ives adaptation of A Flea in Her Ear for the Chicago Shakespeare Theater directed by Gary Griffin for which he received his second Joseph Jefferson Award nomination. He starred in the John Caird Paul Gordon musical Jane Eyre for which he received a second Dora Mavor Moore nomination in Canada for his portrayal of Edward Rochester.
He was cast by director Hal Prince as one of two actors rotating in the title role in the Las Vegas production of The Phantom of the Opera. Subsequently, he was cast as the sole actor playing the Phantom. Closing in September 2012, he appeared in over 2,400 performances.
He starred in the Lincoln Center 75th Anniversary revival of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy at the Belasco Theatre in New York City, produced by Lincoln Center Theater in 2012-2013, with a star studded cast which included Tony Shaloub, Seth Numrich, and Yvonne Strahovski, and directed by Bartlett Sher In 2014, he starred in the Kevin Murphy / Laurence O'Keefe cult hit Heathers in New York at New World Stages, and directed by Andy Fickman.
In 2015 and 2016, Crivello starred in producer Hershey Felder production of ''Louis and Keely Live at the Sahara'' directed by Taylor Hackford, and written by Hackford, Vanessa Claire Stewart and Jake Broder. The musical was performed at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago, as well as the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Stewart played the role of Keely Smith to Crivello's 'Las Vegas Lounge Legend' Louis Prima. He received his third Joseph Jefferson Award nomination for his performance in 2015.
In 2017, Crivello portrayed the late Marquette University Naismith Basketball Hall Of Fame 1977 NCAA Basketball Championship Coach / NBC Broadcaster Al McGuire in the Milwaukee Repertory Theater one man play ''McGuire'', written by HOF broadcaster Dick Enberg.
From January - June, 2017, the play broke all box office records, playing to 'sold-out' houses in the 150 seat Stackner Cabaret. Crivello received critical praise for his work in the show, and won 2017 Wisconsin Footlights Award for "Outstanding Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play."
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A five-minute presentation of "McGuire" was presented at the 2017 Wisconsin Sports Awards on May 20, 2017, at the University Of Wisconsin Field House.
The audience included All-Pro Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers, All-Pro Green Bay Packers LT David Bahktieri and noted sports figures including The Green Bay Packers players Jason Spriggs, Kyle Murphy, former Packer players including Mark Tauscher, The Milwaukee Brewers including Jonathan Villar, The Milwaukee Bucks, including Jabari Parker, UW Head Women's Basketball Coach Jonathan Tsipis, former University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Head Men's Basketball Coach/Butler Head coach Lavall Jordan, Marquette University Head Men's Basketball Coach Steve Wojceichowski, UW Head Men's Basketball Coach Greg Gard, ... executives and broadcasters Bill "Rock" Schroeder, Steve "The Homer" True, Tim Van Vooren from ESPN, FOX Sports Wisconsin, Major League Baseball... Good Karma Broadcasting founder Milwaukee's ESPN Radio owner Craig Karmazin, top male and female athletes from Wisconsin, Marquette University, UW Green Bay, UW Milwaukee... Marquette University Athletic Director Bill Scholl... Wisconsin Women's Volleyball HOF 2017 Athlete Of The Year Lauren Carlini, Wisconsin Men's Basketball players including Zack Showalter, Athletic Director/ NCAA HOF Former Head Football Coach Barry Alvarez ... among an audience of 1,000.
A VIDEO LINK the performance at the Wisconsin Sports Awards can be found at the BELOW LINK: <https://plummovingmedia.box.com/s/xca1fg54wrfb6le5vrb21vcwudlm30im>
Television and film
Crivello started his feature film work co-starring in two films: Crocodile Dundee II opposite Paul Hogan in 1988, and Shakedown opposite Sam Elliot. He then starred in director Janet Greek's MGM film Spellbinder opposite Tim Daly and Kelly Preston. He was featured in director James Ivory's comedy Slaves of New York opposite Bernadette Peters in 1989.
Crivello has also appeared in the Jim Abrahams film comedy Mafia! opposite Sofia Milos and Jason Fuchs (1998), Texas Rangers (2001) opposite Alfred Molina, director Martha Coolidge's Material Girls (2006) opposite Hilary and Haylie Duff, Independence Day... and Trade opposite Kevin Kline (2007). In 1992, Crivello appeared in the short film The Bet for director Ted Demme. Crivello has also starred in the independent short films Petal Of A Rose, Henry Toy for director Anthony Engelken in 2014, and director Taryn Kosviner's NYShorts Festival's The Mark in 2016. A link to "The Mark" can be found here:
In 2016, he starred in the Hallmark Television movie Emma's Chance opposite Joey Lawrence, Greer Grammer and Missi Pyle. Director John Gray had him starring in his television movie The Lost Capone opposite Adrian Pasdar, Titus Welliver, Ally Sheedy and Eric Roberts. In 1995's he starred in Dillinger and Capone opposite Martin Sheen and F. Murray Abraham... and Monster Mash: The Movie for directors Joel Cohen and Alex Sokolow. He also appeared in Dominic Dunne's 919 Fifth Avenue. 1996 he followed with Alien Avengers opposite George Wendt. In 2000, he was featured in the Wonderful World Of Disney made-for-television musical Geppetto opposite Drew Carrey and Julia Louis-Dreyfuss. In 1988, Crivello guest starred as "Miguel Carrera" in Miami Vice directed by Don Johnson.
Crivello has guest starred on the science fiction television series Star Trek Voyager, Team Knight Rider, and Babylon 5. He also co-starred in director Ron Krauss's SciFi Channel/SONY film Alien Hunter opposite James Spader. He has appeared in numerous sitcoms, including Seinfeld opposite Jerry Seinfeld and Michael Richards directed by Andy Ackerman, Frasier opposite Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce , In-Laws opposite Dennis Farina, Jean Smart, Bonnie Somerville and Elon Gold directed by Steve Zuckerman and Normal, Ohio opposite John Goodman. Crivello has had roles in a number of police procedurals, including CSI: New York and Law & Order.
In 2013, he appeared in the Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra directed by Stephen Soderbergh. Crivello appeared as British film director David Lean in director/producer Ryan Murphy's 2017 FOX miniseries Feud opposite Jessica Lange as Joan Crawford and Susan Sarandon as Bette Davis.
He starred in the ABC Daytime series One Life to Live as mobster Johnny Dee Hesser from 1990 to 1991. He has also appeared on the daytime series The Bold and The Beautiful and The Guiding Light.