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Kenny D'Aquila
Kenny D'Aquila is an American actor, writer, producer, and singer. Personal life D'Aquila was born in Old Saybrook, Connecticut with his parents and three brothers. During high school, D'Aquila was a star football player, but unfortunately an injury ended his promising sports career. He moved to Hollywood to pursue his acting and screenwriting career, where he waited tables to make ends meet. Once he got married and they had a son, he temporarily left show business to focus on fatherhood. After his father passed away from cancer, there was a lot of tension within the family. This inspired his play, Unorganized Crime. Career D'Aquila wrote, produced, and starred in the play ''Unorganized Crime'', opposite Chazz Palminteri, in its Los Angeles premiere. D'Aquila starred as Grantaire in the 2nd National Tour of ''Les Misérables ''Les Misérables'' ( , ) is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chazz Palminteri
Calogero Lorenzo "Chazz" Palminteri (born May 15, 1952) Chazzpalminteri.net. Retrieved on November 19, 2013. is an American actor. He is best known for his –nominated performance in '''', the 1993 film '' A Bronx Tale'', based on his play of the same name, and his recurring role as Shorty in '' |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grantaire
Grantaire () is a fictional character from the 1862 novel ''Les Misérables'' by Victor Hugo. He is a student from the South of France and is one of the principal characters of the revolutionary group known as the Friends of the ABC. According to the novel, the Friends of the ABC only tolerate him because of his good humour. He often signs with his rebus: R and, at one point, Bossuet calls him "Capital R." He is a gambler and often drunk. Description Physical appearance Grantaire is not physically attractive; he is described as "particularly ugly" or "inordinately homely," Contrastingly, Enjolras is described as having "...long fair lashes, blue eyes, that hair flying in the wind, rosy cheeks, pure lips, exquisite teeth". Morality Grantaire is a skeptic, believing in nothing, claiming to know nothing, with no values or goals. He takes little interest in the cause of the revolutionary students and is described in the novel as someone who was able to go along without any particular b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Misérables (musical)
''Les Misérables'' ( , ), colloquially known as ''Les Mis'' or ''Les Miz'' ( ), is a sung-through musical and an adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel of the same name, by Claude-Michel Schönberg (music), Alain Boublil, Jean-Marc Natel (original French lyrics) and Herbert Kretzmer (English lyrics). The original French musical premiered in Paris in 1980 with direction by Robert Hossein. Its English-language adaptation by producer Cameron Mackintosh has been running in London since October 1985, making it the longest-running musical in the West End and the second longest-running musical in the world after the original Off-Broadway run of ''The Fantasticks''. Set in early 19th-century France, ''Les Misérables'' is the story of Jean Valjean, a French peasant, and his desire for redemption, released in 1815 after serving nineteen years in jail for stealing a loaf of bread for his sister's starving child. Valjean decides to break his parole and start his life anew after a bishop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
