Anthony Crivello

Infobox actor
name = Anthony Crivello

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birthdate = birth date and age|1955|08|02
birthplace = Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
occupation = Actor
spouse = Dori Rosenthal
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tonyawards = Best Featured Actor in a Musical
1993 "Kiss of the Spider Woman"

Anthony Crivello (born August 2, 1955) is an American actor and singer, mostly in musicals on Broadway. He has written several scripts and more than twenty songs.

Biography

Personal life

Crivello was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Josephine (née Mussomeli) and Vincent J. Crivello. [cite web | title=Anthony Crivello Biography | url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/59/Anthony-Crivello.html | work=filmreference | date=2008 | accessdate=2008-07-06] He married Dori Rosenthal on May 14, 2005.

Career

His first Broadway role was as a replacement in the original production of "Evita" in 1983. He then appeared in The News and Les Miserables before achieving prominence as Valentin in the Kander and Ebb musical Kiss of the Spider Woman in 1995, for which he won a Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Musical. In 1999 he played opposite Audra McDonald in Michael John LaChiusa's musical "Marie Christine". Two years later, he received an LA Ovation Award nomination, a Garland Award, a Robby Award nomination, and an LA Drama Critics Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in the musical "Do I Hear a Waltz?" at the Pasadena Playhouse.

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. He was one of two actors rotating in the title role in the Las Vegas production of The Phantom of the Opera, but as of Summer 2008, he is the sole actor playing the Phantom.

Discography

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* "Kiss of the Spider Woman"
* "Marie Christine"
* "Jane Eyre" (Toronto Cast)
* "Les Miserables" (Original Broadway Cast)
* "Les Miserables - The Dream Cast in Concert"
* "Do I Hear A Waltz?" (Pasadena Playhouse)

Filmography

* 1988: "Crocodile Dundee II"
* 1988: "Shakedown"
* 1988: "Spellbinder"
* 1989: "Slaves of New York"
* 1990: "The Lost Capone"
* 1992: "The Bet"
* 1995: "Dillinger and Capone"
* 1995: "Monster Mash"
* 1996: "Alien Avengers"
* 1996: "Independence Day"
* 1997: "Twisted"
* 1998: "Jane Austen's Mafia!"
* 2001: "Texas Rangers"
* 2003: "Alien Hunter"
* 2006: "Material Girls"
* 2006: "Trade"

References

External links

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* [http://darkestnight.strangely-funny.net/ darkestnight: the works of Alain Boubil & Claude-Michel Schönberg]