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The Violet Hour
''The Violet Hour'' is a play by Richard Greenberg which premiered at the South Coast Repertory in 2002 and ran on Broadway in 2003. Synopsis The play takes place in New York in 1919. A young publisher named John Pace Seavering has enough money to publish one book. He is torn between publishing the gargantuan novel of his former college roommate, Denis McCleary, who hopes that he and his fiancée, Rosamund Plinth, can win the blessing of her wealthy father. John's other option is to publish the memoirs of his lover Jessie Brewster, a famous singer. Then a mysterious, paper spewing machine appears in the office. John and his assistant Gidger discover that the papers are from books published far in the future, chronicling the history of the publishing house after it achieves success and prestige. Gidger, John's assistant, learns that he is forgotten by time (while even his dog merits a mention). John learns he while he becomes a well-to-do publisher, the success has disastrous r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Greenberg
Richard Greenberg (born February 22, 1958) is an American playwright and television writer known for his subversively humorous depictions of middle-class American life. He has had more than 25 plays premiere on and Off-Broadway in New York City and eight at the South Coast Repertory, South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, California, including ''The Violet Hour'', ''Everett Beekin'', and ''Hurrah at Last.'' Greenberg is perhaps best known for his 2003 Tony Award winning play, ''Take Me Out (play), Take Me Out'', about the conflicts that arise after a Major League Baseball player nonchalantly announces to the media that he is gay. The play premiered in London and ran in New York as the first collaboration between England's Donmar Warehouse and New York's The Public Theater, Public Theater. After it transferred to Broadway theatre, Broadway in early 2003, ''Take Me Out'' won widespread critical acclaim for Greenberg and many prestigious awards. Background and education Green ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dagmara Dominczyk
Dagmara is a given name. Notable people with the given name include: *Dagmara Domińczyk (born 1976), Polish-American actress and author *Dagmara Grad (born 1990), Polish footballer * Dagmara Handzlik (born 1986), Polish-born Cypriot long distance runner * Dagmara Krzyżyńska (born 1981), Polish alpine skier * Dagmara Nocuń (born 1996), Polish handballer * Dagmara Wozniak (born 1988), American saber fencer See also *Dagmar (given name) Dagmar is a Scandinavian given name. It is usually female (but occasionally also male). The name derives from the Old Norse name ''(Dagmær)'', ''dagr'' meaning "day", and ''mær'' meaning "daughter", "mother" and "maiden." Outside of Scandinavia, ... {{given name Polish feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Rosen (musician)
Charlie Rosen (born July 20, 1990) is an American musician, composer, arranger, orchestrator, musical director, and music producer. He is best known for his work on Broadway, where he has worked on ''Be More Chill'', ''Prince of Broadway'', and ''American Psycho''. He is also the leader of The 8-Bit Big Band, a jazz orchestra specializing in video game music. Early life Rosen was born in Los Angeles, California as the son of a bassoonist and organist. He was taught piano by his mother starting from the age of three. At the age of fifteen, he joined the onstage band for the Los Angeles production of '' 13.'' He moved to New York at the age of seventeen to make his Broadway debut in ''13'', where he was a swing. He later attended Berklee College of Music for four semesters. Career Rosen began his professional career as a swing musician for the bass, guitar, and percussion tracks of ''13''. Starting in 2012, he was the bandleader of Charlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band, where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Uranowitz
Brandon Jacob Uranowitz is an American stage and screen actor. He is best known for his roles as Adam Hochberg in the musical ''An American in Paris'' (2014–15) and Mendel Weisenbachfeld in the 2016 Broadway revival of ''Falsettos''. A four-time Tony Award nominee, he received nominations for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for these performances in addition to nominations for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performances in ''Burn This'' (2019) and ''Leopoldstadt'' (2022–23). His other Broadway credits include '' Baby, It's You!'' (2011), ''Prince of Broadway'' (2017), and ''The Band's Visit'' (2018). Early life Uranowitz grew up in West Orange, New Jersey and attended the nearby Montclair Kimberley Academy. He is from a Jewish family and had a Bar Mitzvah. He began performing at age six and studied at Performers Theatre Workshop. In the mid-1990s, he was a working child actor; professional roles included an ensemble member in ''Evita'' at the Paper Mill Playhouse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solea Pfeiffer
Solea Pfeiffer is a Zimbabwe-born American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Eliza Hamilton in the first national tour of ''Hamilton'', which she landed after performing as Maria in ''West Side Story'' at the Hollywood Bowl. Two years later, she starred in the New York City Center's production of ''Evita.'' She has been in a relationship with Kevin Csolak since 2020. Education and career Pfeiffer was born in Zimbabwe and grew up in Seattle, Washington. Her mother was African-American, and was adopted and raised in Boston, while her father is white. Her maternal grandfather was former congressman Ron Dellums; she and her mother were able to connect with him a year before he died. Her parents are anthropologists at the University of Washington. Pfeiffer graduated from University of Michigan with a BFA and attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Pfeiffer began her interest in music by taking violin lessons at four years old. She attended theater camps and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Jordan (actor, Born 1984)
Jeremy Michael Jordan (born November 20, 1984) is an American actor and singer. He has performed on Broadway, in television and film, in concert, as well as in other theatrical productions. He made his Broadway debut in 2009 as part of ''Rock of Ages''. Subsequently, he went to star in the original Broadway musicals ''Bonnie & Clyde'' (2011) as Clyde Barrow and '' Newsies'' (2012) as Jack Kelly, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award and a Grammy Award. He has also appeared in the musicals ''West Side Story'' and ''Waitress'' and the play ''American Son'' on Broadway. In 2021, he starred in the Off-Broadway revival of '' Little Shop of Horrors.'' On screen, he starred opposite Anna Kendrick in the 2014 musical film ''The Last Five Years'' and as Jimmy Collins in the NBC series '' Smash'' (2013). From 2015 to 2021, he played Winslow "Winn" Schott Jr. on the CBS/ CW DC Comics-based superhero drama series ''Supergirl''. Early life and education Jordan was born on November 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Henningsen
Erika Leigh Henningsen (born August 13, 1992) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her work on Broadway and for originating the role of Cady Heron in the 2018 Tony-nominated musical ''Mean Girls'', for which she received an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination. Early life and education Henningsen was born and raised in Moraga, California. She is the youngest of three daughters born to Phil and Marybeth Henningsen. Henningsen started in theatre after her parents recognized her passion for "talking and being in front of people" from a young age. At the age of seven, her interest in theatre was piqued after reading the poem “The Turkey Shot out of the Oven” and hearing the audience's positive response to her performance. When she was 14 years old, Henningsen was cast in a local production of ''Grey Gardens'' and has stated in interviews that after performing in this production, she knew she wanted to pursue musical theatre as a career. Henningsen graduated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santino Fontana
Santino Fontana (born March 21, 1982) is an American actor and singer. He has received a Tony Award, two Drama Desk Awards, an Outer Critics Circle Award, Lortel Award, Obie Award, and Clarence Derwent Award in a mix of straight plays and musicals. A two-time Tony Award nominee and three-time Drama Desk Award nominee, Fontana won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical, and Outer Critics Circle Award for his lead performance as Michael Dorsey in the stage adaptation of ''Tootsie''. Fontana is known to film audiences as the voice of Prince Hans in Disney's 2013 animated film '' Frozen''. Fontana has appeared on television as Greg Serrano on seasons 1 and 2 of ''Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'' and David Saperstein in ''Shades of Blue'' with Jennifer Lopez and Ray Liotta. Early life and education Fontana was born on March 21, 1982, in Stockton, California, to Sharon Marie Fontana (née Sima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasmine Guy
Jasmine Guy (born March 10, 1962) is an American actress, director, singer and dancer. She is known for her role as Dina in the 1988 film ''School Daze'' and as Whitley Gilbert-Wayne on the NBC ''The Cosby Show'' spin-off ''A Different World'', which originally ran from 1987 to 1993. Guy won four consecutive NAACP Image Awards from 1990 through 1993 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on the show. She played Roxy Harvey on ''Dead Like Me'' and as Sheila "Grams" Bennet on ''The Vampire Diaries''. More recently, she played the role of Gemma, Richard Webber’s friend and potential love interest on ''Grey's Anatomy''. Early life Born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Black American father and Caucasian mother, Guy was raised in the affluent historic Collier Heights neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, where she attended Northside Performing Arts High School. Her mother, the former Jaye Rudolph, was a former high-school teacher, and her father, the Reverend Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Benanti
Laura Ilene Benanti (née Vidnovic; born July 13, 1979) is an American actress and singer. Over the course of her Broadway career, she has received five Tony Award nominations. She played Louise in the 2008 Broadway revival of '' Gypsy'', winning the 2008 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Benanti then appeared in the Broadway musical ''Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'' in 2010, winning the Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She played Elsa Schräder in the 2013 NBC television production of '' The Sound of Music Live!'' and, in 2015, began playing twin sisters Alura and Astra in the TV series ''Supergirl''. Benanti appeared as Edie Randall in the TBS comedy '' The Detour'' from 2017 until the show's cancellation in 2019. Since 2016, she has had a recurring role as First Lady Melania Trump on ''The Late Show with Stephen Colbert''. Early life Benanti was born in New York City to Linda Wonneberger, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Holder
Donald Holder is an American lighting designer in theatre, opera and dance based in New York. He was born in 1962. He has been nominated for fourteen Tony Awards, winning the 1998 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design as well as the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for ''The Lion King''. He won a second Tony in 2008 for the revival of '' South Pacific''. His lighting design for ''Paradise Square'' has been nominated for a 2022 Tony Award for '' Best Lighting Design of a Musical''. Additional Broadway credits include: ''Tootsie, Anastasia, Kiss Me Kate, Fiddler on the Roof, The Bridges of Madison County, She Loves Me, The Cherry Orchard, The King and I,'' ''Big Fish,'' '' Annie (2012 Broadway revival)'', '' Golden Boy'', '' Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark'', ''Arcadia'', ''The Motherfucker With The Hat'', '' Promises, Promises'', ''Les Liaisons Dangereuses'', ''Radio Golf'', ''The Little Dog Laughed'', '' Movin' Out'', '' The Times They Are a-Changin''', ''A Streetcar Nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama Desk Award
The Drama Desk Award is an annual prize recognizing excellence in New York theatre. First bestowed in 1955 as the Vernon Rice Award, the prize initially honored Off-Broadway productions, as well as Off-off-Broadway, and those in the vicinity. Following the 1964 renaming as the Drama Desk Awards, Broadway productions were included beginning with the 1968–69 award season. The awards are considered a significant American theater distinction. History The Drama Desk organization was formed in 1949 by a group of New York theater critics, editors, reporters and publishers, in order to make the public aware of the vital issues concerning the theatrical industry. They debuted the presentations of the ''Vernon Rice Awards''. The name honors the ''New York Post'' critic Vernon Rice, who had pioneered Off-Broadway coverage in the New York press. The name was changed for the 1963–1964 awards season to the ''Drama Desk Awards''. In 1974, the Drama Desk became incorporated as a not-for-p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |