Some may know Santino Fontana as Greg Serrano from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Others may have recognized his voice as that of Prince Hans in the popular Disney film Frozen; one of the highest grossing films in Disney history. He’s an actor with significant Broadway stage credits. Most notably, he portrayed one of the three ages of Moss Hart in Act One. He’s also a singer; the first guest invited to perform with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for three times in one year. His performance as Prince Topher in Cinderella was loved by the fans, both for his acting and his beautiful
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- 6/20/2017
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
Today we are continuing our expansive ongoing discussion with Tony Award-winning scenic design visionary Beowulf Boritt. Continuing the exhaustive discussion of this week's spectacular one night only concert event Parade, Boritt outlines the visual high-points of the evening as well as offers an explanation of the impetus for many of the ideas behind the inventive design for the unique event. Additionally, Boritt opens up about his other work at Lincoln Center over the years, including Manhattan Concert Productions presentation of Ragtime and his Tony Award-winning work on the Moss Hart drama Act One, which will be shown on PBS as part of Live From Lincoln Center later this year. Furthermore, Boritt shines a light on his multiple other current musicals running or opening soon - the revival of On The Town on Broadway, plus Hand To God opening soon and Off-Broadway's Clinton The Musical. Plus, Boritt details his work on...
- 4/7/2015
- by Pat Cerasaro
- BroadwayWorld.com
Producers of the upcoming Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's Pulitzer Prize-winning play You Can't Take It With You announce more cast members for the production which begins rehearsals on Monday, July 21st. The cast will include Will Brill Act One as Ed Carmichael, Fran Kranz Death of a Salesman as Tony Kirby, Johanna Day August Osage County as Mrs. Kirby, Nick Corley The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Austin Durant War Horse and Joe Tapper Witnessed By The World, 59 E 59 as the three G-Men as well as Barrett Doss, Ned Noyes, Pippa Pearthree as understudies. The complete and final cast list will be announced next week.
- 7/18/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Famed character actor Eli Wallach passed away Tuesday at the age of 98. To remember the award-winning actor, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will air an 11-hour film marathon featuring five of his performances on June 30 starting at 9am Et. TCM Eli Wallach Film Marathon — June 30 (All Times Et) 9am: Kisses for My President (1964) — The first female president has to deal with her husband’s bruised ego. Fred MacMurray, Polly Bergen and Eli Wallach star. 11am: Act One (1963) — George Hamilton stars in the true story of playwright Moss Hart, a poor Brooklyn boy who joins … Continue reading →
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- 6/25/2014
- by Jeff Pfeiffer
- ChannelGuideMag
New York – Playwright-director James Lapine's Tony-nominated theater-biz drama, Act One, will be filmed for broadcast on PBS as part of the Live From Lincoln Center series. Based on the classic theater memoir of the same name by legendary playwright and director Moss Hart, the play chronicles his early life and his first forays into the world of Broadway, culminating in his debut collaboration with George S. Kaufman on Once in a Lifetime. The show's large ensemble cast is headed by Tony Shalhoub, Santino Fontana (Frozen) and Andrea Martin. It opened on April 17 at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont
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- 6/5/2014
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lincoln Center Theater's Tony Award-nominated production of Act One, written and directed by James Lapine from the autobiography by Moss Hart, will be filmed for Live from Lincoln Center for an anticipated broadcast on PBS at a future date, it has just been announced. Act One which is up for 5 Tony Awards this Sunday, including Best Play, runs through June 15 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.
- 6/5/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
As we look ahead to the Tony Awards on Sunday, June 8, EW takes a closer look at this season’s nominated selection of new musicals, plays, and revivals, all of which will be competing for Broadway’s highest honor. Today, we dive into this year’s nominees for Best Play.
Act One
Opened: March 20, 2014
Closing: June 15, 2014
Starring: Tony Shalhoub, Andrea Martin, Santino Fontana, Beatrice Kaufman, Frieda Fishbein
Directed by: James Lapine
Written by: James Lapine, based on the memoir by Moss Hart
Synopsis: Act One chronicles the life of Moss Hart (1904-61) and his growth from a poor kid interested...
Act One
Opened: March 20, 2014
Closing: June 15, 2014
Starring: Tony Shalhoub, Andrea Martin, Santino Fontana, Beatrice Kaufman, Frieda Fishbein
Directed by: James Lapine
Written by: James Lapine, based on the memoir by Moss Hart
Synopsis: Act One chronicles the life of Moss Hart (1904-61) and his growth from a poor kid interested...
- 6/4/2014
- by Andrea Towers
- EW.com - PopWatch
Will Neil Patrick Harris claim his first Tony Award this Sunday for his gender-bending turn in the musical revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch? Probably. Will fellow multiple-Emmy winner Bryan Cranston win for playing Lyndon B. Johnson in the biodrama All the Way? Count on it. But will it be the Carole King biomusical Beautiful or the murderously funny A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder that earns top honors as the Best New Musical of the Broadway season?
On that point, as on many other tight races in this year’s Tony contest, EW critics Melissa Rose Bernardo and Thom Geier are divided.
On that point, as on many other tight races in this year’s Tony contest, EW critics Melissa Rose Bernardo and Thom Geier are divided.
- 6/3/2014
- by Thom Geier
- EW.com - PopWatch
When it comes to showstoppers, Broadway's Tony Awards are traditionally hard to beat. And, from the list of presenters who will be accompanying this year's host (returning for the fourth time) Hugh Jackman at the June 8 ceremony, few recent Tonys have promised to be so star-studded. So far, those announced to join Jackman live from the stage at Radio City Music Hall include Kevin Bacon, Matt Bomer, Wayne Brady, Zach Braff, Kenneth Branagh, Patricia Clarkson, Bradley Cooper, Fran Drescher, Clint Eastwood, Emilio Estefan, Gloria Estefan, Vera Farmiga, Will Ferrell, Tony Goldwyn, Anna Gunn, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ethan Hawke, Carole King, Zachary Levi,...
- 5/28/2014
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
It appears that Broadway’s current obsession with Moss Hart (now embodied in the just-reviewed Lincoln Center production of his beloved memoir Act One) is going to continue just a bit longer. James Earl Jones, a.k.a. The Voice (well before it was a hit NBC reality competition program), will lend those Darth Vader tones to the 1936 American classic You Can’t Take It With You, written by ace scribes Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman and even better known for the Best Picture Oscar-winning 1938 film by Frank Capra.
In the first revival in over 30 years, Jones is assumed...
In the first revival in over 30 years, Jones is assumed...
- 4/24/2014
- by Jason Clark
- EW.com - PopWatch
New York – Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman are suddenly all over Broadway again. While the legendary playwriting team's earliest collaboration is being depicted in Act One, a stage adaptation of Hart's memoir, which opened this month at Lincoln Center, their Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 comedy, You Can't Take It With You, is headed for an early-fall revival. Directed by Scott Ellis, the production will star James Earl Jones as Martin Vanderhof, the philosophizing patriarch of an eccentric New York City household, which erupts into mayhem when one of his granddaughters invites the parents of her rich fiance to
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- 4/24/2014
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lesson learned this week on Broadway: if he does not like what you wrote about him, James Franco will call you “a little bitch”. Franco, who made his Broadway debut this week in Of Mice and Men opposite Bridesmaids charmer Chris O’Dowd, took on the New York Times’ Ben Brantley on Instagram, making it the 453rd silly thing he’s done this year. (Or is it incredibly shrewd and constant self-promotion? One cannot be sure.) In more benevolent news, a bevy of much-loved stage, film, and TV triple threats returned to their roots, including Audra McDonald (channeling the haunted spirit of Billie Holiday,...
- 4/19/2014
- by Jason Clark
- EW.com - PopWatch
The Lincoln Center Theater under the direction of Producing Artistic Director Andre Bishop production of Act One, a play written and directed by James Lapine from the autobiography by Moss Hart, just opened last night, April 17, at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. The cast features Bob Ari, Bill Army, Will Brill, Laurel Casillo, Chuck Cooper, Santino Fontana, Steven Kaplan, Will LeBow, Mimi Lieber,Charlotte Maier, Noah Marlowe, Andrea Martin, Greg McFadden, Deborah Offner, Lance Roberts,Matthew Saldivar, Matthew Schechter, Tony Shalhoub, Jonathan Spivey, Wendy Rich Stetson, Bob Stillman and Amy Warren. BroadwayWorld was there for the special night and you can check out photos from the after party below...
- 4/18/2014
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Among the most sacred texts of Broadway is Moss Hart’s Act One, an autobiography of the once-famous playwright and director that’s plenty auto but not much biography. It’s full of lies and obfuscations. Hart’s troubled Aunt Kate did not, for instance, die a happy woman in 1925 after the free tickets he obtained as a producer’s office boy enabled him to give her one “last wonderful year.” (In fact, in 1935, she was caught setting fires backstage during rehearsals for a musical that Hart was directing.) Hart himself was manic-depressive, not that you’d know it from the book. And then there’s the matter of his sexuality, conveniently obscured by nubile red herrings. Sacrilege though it may be to say so, I find Act One to be gassy and self-serving, despite the undeniable fun of its rollicking backstage tale. Indeed, the truest thing it offers is...
- 4/18/2014
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
James Lapine must have memorized Moss Hart's classic memoir of a life in the theater. He has spent years adapting “Act One” to the stage, where it opened Thursday under his direction at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. He probably knows the book as well, if not better, than anyone else on the planet. It's strange then that this writer-director has not heeded the book's advice on how Hart, then a novice playwright, was able to turn his own floundering show “Once in a Lifetime,” co-written with George S. Kaufman, into a big hit on Broadway in 1930. Also read: ‘Bullets Over.
- 4/18/2014
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
New York – Beowulf Boritt's ingenious set for Act One is a multi-story marvel, a revolving warren that disgorges countless different locations, including a Bronx tenement, a swanky Manhattan apartment, a furrier's warehouse, busy theater district offices, train compartments, rehearsal rooms, and of course, stage after stage. But it's problematic in a work fundamentally about the magic of the theater that all the magic is confined to the design department. Condensing into play form Moss Hart's 1959 autobiography – a peach among American theater memoirs – was probably an impossible task. However, that doesn't soften the arduousness of sitting through
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- 4/18/2014
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Lincoln Center Theater under the direction of Producing Artistic Director Andre Bishop production of Act One, a play written and directed by James Lapine from the autobiography by Moss Hart, is currently in previews at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. The cast features Bob Ari, Bill Army, Will Brill, Laurel Casillo, Chuck Cooper, Santino Fontana, Steven Kaplan, Will LeBow, Mimi Lieber, Charlotte Maier, Noah Marlowe, Andrea Martin, Greg McFadden, Deborah Offner, Lance Roberts, Matthew Saldivar, Matthew Schechter, Tony Shalhoub, Jonathan Spivey, Wendy Rich Stetson, Bob Stillman and Amy Warren. Act One will open on Thursday, April 17. BroadwayWorld brings you highlights of the cast in action below...
- 4/15/2014
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Lincoln Center Theater under the direction of Producing Artistic Director Andre Bishop production of Act One, a play written and directed by James Lapine from the autobiography by Moss Hart, is currently in previews at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. The cast features Bob Ari, Bill Army, Will Brill, Laurel Casillo, Chuck Cooper, Santino Fontana, Steven Kaplan, Will LeBow, Mimi Lieber, Charlotte Maier, Noah Marlowe, Andrea Martin, Greg McFadden, Deborah Offner, Lance Roberts, Matthew Saldivar, Matthew Schechter, Tony Shalhoub, Jonathan Spivey, Wendy Rich Stetson, Bob Stillman and Amy Warren. Act One will open on Thursday, April 17. BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the cast in action below...
- 4/1/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Lincoln Center Theater presents Act One, a play written and directed by James Lapine from the autobiography by Moss Hart. The production is scheduled to begin previews tomorrow night, March 20 and will open on Thursday, April 17 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater 150 West 65 Street. Scroll down to learn more about the full company, plus check out the latest TV spot for the production...
- 3/20/2014
- by Meet the Cast
- BroadwayWorld.com
Lincoln Center Theater will soon present Act One, a play written and directed by James Lapine from the autobiography by Moss Hart. The production is scheduled to begin previews Thursday, March 20 and open on Thursday, April 17 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater 150 West 65 Street. The play will feature Bill Army, Will Brill, Laurel Casillo, Chuck Cooper, Steven Kaplan, Will LeBow, Mimi Lieber,Charlotte Maier, Andrea Martin, Deborah Offner, Matthew Saldivar, Matthew Schechter, Bob Stillman,Amy Warren, Santino Fontana and Tony Shalhoub.BroadwayWorld brings you the just-released television spot, featuring Shalhoub, Fontana amp Martin, below...
- 3/12/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Lincoln Center Theater will soon present Act One, a play written and directed by James Lapine from the autobiography by Moss Hart. The production is scheduled to begin previews Thursday, March 20 and open on Thursday, April 17 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater 150 West 65 Street. The play will feature Bill Army, Will Brill, Laurel Casillo, Chuck Cooper, Steven Kaplan, Will LeBow, Mimi Lieber, Charlotte Maier, Andrea Martin, Deborah Offner, Matthew Saldivar, Matthew Schechter, Bob Stillman,Amy Warren, Santino Fontana and Tony Shalhoub.The company met the press yesterday and BroadwayWorld was on hand for the big event. Check out complete photo coverage below...
- 3/5/2014
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Lincoln Center Theater has announced that Bill Army, Will Brill, Laurel Casillo, Chuck Cooper, Steven Kaplan, Will LeBow, Mimi Lieber, Charlotte Maier, Andrea Martin, Deborah Offner, Matthew Saldivar, Matthew Schechter, Bob Stillman and Amy Warren will join Santino Fontana and Tony Shalhoub in the cast of its upcoming production of Act One, a play written and directed by James Lapine from the autobiography by Moss Hart. The production is scheduled to begin previews Thursday, March 20 and open on Thursday, April 17 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater 150 West 65 Street.
- 1/14/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
New York -- Santino Fontana and Tony Shalhoub both will step into the shoes of playwright Moss Hart, one of the undisputed greats of Broadway's golden age, in the new stage adaptation of his best-selling memoir, Act One. The actors are set to play Hart at different stages of his colorful life, with a third castmember still to be announced for the role as a young boy. Writer-director James Lapine has adapted Hart's autobiography, which was originally published in 1959 and regularly turns up on lists of the greatest first-person accounts of a life in show business ever written. The Lincoln
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- 12/8/2013
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lincoln Center Theater under the direction of Producing Artistic Director Andre Bishop has announced that actors Santino Fontana and Tony Shalhoub will both be featured as the legendary writerdirector Moss Hart at different stages of his life in its upcoming production of Act One, a play written and directed by James Lapine from the autobiography by Moss Hart. The production, which will also feature a third actor who will play Mr. Hart as a young boy, is scheduled to begin previews Thursday, March 20 and open onThursday, April 17 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater 150 West 65 Street.
- 12/8/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Stick
Written by Elmore Leonard and Joseph Stinson
Directed by Burt Reynolds
USA, 1985
Part of the reason that Elmore Leonard’s novels got turned into movies so often is that it was so easy to write the screenplays. Entire scenes full of Leonard’s trademark crackling dialogue would go, verbatim, into films like Get Shorty and Out of Sight. But that wasn’t true for the 1990s only. Leonard’s stellar 1983 novel Stick was turned into a movie as well, a film which served as popular entertainment as much as the films came a decade later. Where Get Shorty was 1995’s Travolta movie, Stick was 1985’s Burt Reynolds movie, and every bit as fun.
Reynolds plays Ernest “Stick” Stickley, a just-out-of-prison car thief who wanders into Miami and finds himself caught between a local drug kingpin (Castulo Guerra) and a bumbling financial planner (George Segal). Also of note: a pre-...
Written by Elmore Leonard and Joseph Stinson
Directed by Burt Reynolds
USA, 1985
Part of the reason that Elmore Leonard’s novels got turned into movies so often is that it was so easy to write the screenplays. Entire scenes full of Leonard’s trademark crackling dialogue would go, verbatim, into films like Get Shorty and Out of Sight. But that wasn’t true for the 1990s only. Leonard’s stellar 1983 novel Stick was turned into a movie as well, a film which served as popular entertainment as much as the films came a decade later. Where Get Shorty was 1995’s Travolta movie, Stick was 1985’s Burt Reynolds movie, and every bit as fun.
Reynolds plays Ernest “Stick” Stickley, a just-out-of-prison car thief who wanders into Miami and finds himself caught between a local drug kingpin (Castulo Guerra) and a bumbling financial planner (George Segal). Also of note: a pre-...
- 10/1/2013
- by Mark Young
- SoundOnSight
New York — The Scottish play isn't taking much of a break before coming back. Ethan Hawke plans to return to Broadway this winter to play the title role in "Macbeth."
The Shakespeare tragedy will mark a reunion for Hawke with director Jack O'Brien at Lincoln Center Theater, where he starred in "Henry IV" and "The Coast of Utopia," for which he was nominated for a Tony Award.
Hawke is currently starring in the horror film "The Purge" and the romantic drama "Before Midnight," the third film in a series with "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset."
"Macbeth" had its latest incarnation on Broadway in a one-man show by Alan Cumming, which is set to close in July. Patrick Stewart led another cast in 2008.
For those who can't wait, a "Macbeth" starring Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston will be broadcast to movie theaters across the country from Manchester International Festival as part...
The Shakespeare tragedy will mark a reunion for Hawke with director Jack O'Brien at Lincoln Center Theater, where he starred in "Henry IV" and "The Coast of Utopia," for which he was nominated for a Tony Award.
Hawke is currently starring in the horror film "The Purge" and the romantic drama "Before Midnight," the third film in a series with "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset."
"Macbeth" had its latest incarnation on Broadway in a one-man show by Alan Cumming, which is set to close in July. Patrick Stewart led another cast in 2008.
For those who can't wait, a "Macbeth" starring Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston will be broadcast to movie theaters across the country from Manchester International Festival as part...
- 6/13/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Lincoln Center Theater has announced four productions to be produced in the Vivian Beaumont and Mitzi E. Newhouse Theaters during the 2013-2014 season the world premiere ofDomesticated, a new play by Bruce Norris, featuring Laurie Metcalf, directed by Anna D. Shapiro beginning performances Thursday, October 10 in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater a new production of Shakespeare's Macbeth, featuring Ethan Hawke in the title role, directed by Jack O'Brien, beginning performances Thursday, October 24 in the Vivian Beaumont Theater Act One, adapted and directed by James Lapine from the autobiography by Moss Hart, beginning performances Thursday, March 20 in the Beaumont and the world premiere of The City of Conversation, a new play by Anthony Giardina, directed by Doug Hughes, beginning performances Thursday, April 10 in the Newhouse. In addition to these four productions, LCT3, Lincoln Center Theater's initiative to produce the work of new artists and to engage new audiences, will produce a season of three plays,...
- 6/13/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
According to its website, the Vineyard Arts Project just held two in-progress readings on July 18 and 20 of Moss Hart's Act One, adapted for the stage by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and director James Lapine and commissioned by the Lincoln Center Theater. The readings starred Tony Shalhoub Monk, Lend Me a Tenor, Debra Monk Steel Pier, Redwood Curtain, Chuck Cooper The Life, Caroline, or Change and David Turner On A Clear Day You Can See Forever.
- 7/21/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
MoviesOnline sat down recently to talk with Julie Andrews and Dwayne Johnson at the Los Angeles press day for their new film, “Tooth Fairy,” directed by Michael Lembeck. The family comedy also stars Ashley Judd, Billy Crystal, Stephen Merchant, and Ryan Sheckler.
Dwayne Johnson is "The Tooth Fairy," also known as Derek Thompson, a hard-charging hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids. Beloved by his fans for his hyper-aggressive play on the ice, he becomes the newest addition to the ranks of Tooth Fairydom when he discourages a youngster's dreams of joining the NHL and is sentenced to hard labor as a real tooth fairy, complete with the requisite tutu, wings and magic wand.
At first, Derek "can't handle the tooth" - bumbling and stumbling as he tries to furtively wing his way through strangers' homes...doing what tooth fairies do. But...
Dwayne Johnson is "The Tooth Fairy," also known as Derek Thompson, a hard-charging hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids. Beloved by his fans for his hyper-aggressive play on the ice, he becomes the newest addition to the ranks of Tooth Fairydom when he discourages a youngster's dreams of joining the NHL and is sentenced to hard labor as a real tooth fairy, complete with the requisite tutu, wings and magic wand.
At first, Derek "can't handle the tooth" - bumbling and stumbling as he tries to furtively wing his way through strangers' homes...doing what tooth fairies do. But...
- 1/18/2010
- MoviesOnline.ca
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