Meet The Nominees – ROBIN DE JESÚS – BEST FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

ROBIN DE JESÚS

NOMINATIONS/WINS:

TONY Awards – Nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical

Drama Desk Awards – Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical 

Mr. Jesús also has been nominated for a TONY in 2008 for Best featured actor in a musical and won the Dram Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance for IN THE HEIGHTS.  

 

LINKS:

IMDB.com: www.imdb.com/RobinDeJesus

TheaterMania.com:  www.theatermania.com/RobinDeJesus

Wikipedia.org: www.wikipedia.org/RobinDeJesus

Production Website: www.LaCage.com

Production Twitter Page: www.Twitter.com/LaCageBroadway

Production Facebook Page: www.Facebook.com/LaCageBroadway

Youtube Page: www.Youtube.com/LaCageBroadway

BIOGRAPHY:

ROBIN De JESÚS (Jacob). In the Heights (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award); Rent; Lonnie/Jake; All About Us; Captain Louie; Zorba; Godspell; Nilo Cruz’s  A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings and more. Film and TV: Camp, Fat Girls, “How to Make it in America,” Elliot Loves. Proud member of AEA.

 

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES Broadway montage

Read ‘Whats up ROBIN DE JESÚS?’ from Broadway.com: CLICK HERE

PRODUCTION PHOTO:

[Pictured: Robin De Jesús (Jacob)]

www.LaCage.com

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Meet The Nominees – BOBBY STEGGERT, RAGTIME – BEST FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

BOBBY STEGGERT

NOMINATIONS/WINS:

TONY Awards – Nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical

Drama Desk Awards – Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical 

Outer Critic’s Awards –  Nomination for Featured Actor in a Musical  

Mr. Steggert was nominated for a Drama Dest Award for Outstanding Actor in a Music for his role in YANK! 

LINKS:

Production Website: www.RagtimeBroadway.com

Personal Twitter Page: www.twitter.com/BSteggert

Personal Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/BobbySteggert

Wikipedia: www.wikipedia.org/BobbySteggert

Broadwayworld.com: http://broadwayworld.com/BobbySteggert

Production Twitter Page: www.twitter.com/RagtimeOnBWay09

Production Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/RagtimeBroadway

YouTube.com Page: www.youtube.com/RagtimeBroadway

BIOGRAPHY:

BOBBY STEGGERT (Mother’s Younger Brother) originated the role of Mother’s Younger Brother at the Kennedy Center after last season’s Broadway: Three Generations. New York: the Broadway revival of 110 in the Shade (Outer Critics nomination), the Vineyard Theater’s The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island (Drama Desk and Drama League nominations), Master Harold…and the boys (Broadway), columbinus (New York Theater Workshop), The Music Teacher (New Group), Mordred in Camelot (Live at Lincoln Center on PBS), and Yank! at the Gallery Players. Regional appearances include L.A. Theaterworks, St. Louis Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Pioneer Theater, Olney Theater, and Walnut Street Theater. Film/TV: The Namesake, Game Six, Night Swimming, Kinsey, For Richer or Poorer, and a year as Sam Grey on “All My Children.” He is a graduate of NYU and studied Shakespeare at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

 

BOBBY STEGGERT performs THE NIGHT THAT GOLDMAN SPOKE AT UNION SQUARE in Broadway’s RAGTIME

From The NY Times, Read ‘Show Strives to Live Down Web-Driven Rumor Mill’: CLICK HERE

“Mr. Steggert, as a tentative rebel in search of a cause, provides a hot center of real pain.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times

PRODUCTION PHOTO:

[Pictured: Bobby Steggert (Mother’s Younger Brother), The Cast of RAGTIME]

www.RagtimeBroadway.com

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Meet The Nominees – LEVI KREIS, MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET – BEST FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

LEVI KREIS

NOMINATIONS/WINS:

* TONY Awards – Nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical

Drama League Awards – Nomination for Distinguished Performance Award

Outer Critic’s Circle – Win for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical

LINKS:

Personal Website: www.LeviKreis.com

Personal Twitter Page: www.twitter.com/LeviKreis

Personal Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/LeviKreis

Wikipedia.org: www.wikipedia.org/LeviKreis

Production Website: www.MillionDollarQuartetLive.com

Twitter Page:www.twitter.com/MillionDQuartet

Production Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/MillionDollarQuartet

YouTube.com Page: www.youtube.com/MillionDollarQuartet

Production Wikipedia.org: www.wikipedia.org/MillionDollarQuartet

TheaterMania: www.theatermania.com/MillionDollarQuartet

Broadway.com: www.broadway.com/MillionDollarQuartet

BIOGRAPHY:

Levi Kreis (Jerry Lee Lewis) brings his portrayal of Jerry Lee to Broadway after originating the role in Chicago, where he received a Jeff Award Nomination for “Best Supporting Actor”.  Films include the role of Adam Meiks in Bill Paxton’s directorial debut Frailty and the independent film Don’t Let Go. A multi-award-winning independent recording artist, he has toured over 300 cities nationwide.  Discography includes three albums to date with various T.V. and film placement.  His current release “Where I Belong” continues to receive critical acclaim.  www.levikreis.com

Meet LEVI KREIS

Read ‘Million Dollar Star LEVI KREIS on His ‘Real Wild Child’ Rise’ on Broadway.com: CLICK HERE

Read ‘The Men Behind the Musicians of ‘MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET’ on Arts Beat NY Times Blog: CLICK HERE

“Mr. Kreis’s Lewis has a brash goofball charm. He looks like a demented Harry Connick Jr.” – Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

“Jerry Lee Lewis’ rapscallion randiness is captured perfectly by Levi Kreis.” – Staphanie Zacharek, New York

“LEVI KREIS dominates the evening as Jerry Lee Lewis, not only as an actor but as a pianist. HE ELECTRIFIES THE STAGE!” – Steven Suskin, Variety

PRODUCTION PHOTOS:

[Pictured: Hunter Foster (Sam Phillips), Levi Kreis (Jerry Lee Lewis)]

[Pictured: Levi Kreis (Jerry Lee Lewis), Robert Britton Lyons (Carl Perkins), Eddie Clendening (Elvis Presley), Lance Guest (Johnny Cash)]

www.MillionDollarQuartetLive.com

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Meet The Nominees – BARBARA COOK, SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM – BEST FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

BARBARA COOK

NOMINATIONS/WINS:

TONY Awards – Nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical

Drama League Awards – Nomination for Distinguished Performance Award 

Outer Critic’s Circle – Nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Musical 

1958 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical (The Music Man), 1987 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One Person Show (Barbara Cook: A Concert for the Theatre), 2003 Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance (Mostly Sondheim), 2004 Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance (Barbara Cook’s Broadway!) and a 1955 Theatre World Award for Plain and Fancy.

LINKS:

Personal website: www.BarbaraCook.com

Production Website: www.RoundaboutTheatre.org/SondheimOnSondheim

Production Twitter Page: www.twitter.com/RTC_NYC

YouTube.com Page: www.youtube.com/RTC

Wikipedia.org: www.wikipedia.org/BarbaraCook

TheaterMania: www.theatermania.com/SondheimOnSondheim             

Broadway.com: www.broadway.com/SondheimOnSondheim/

BIOGRAPHY:

Barbara Cook’s association with Stephen Sondheim began in 1985 when she starred as Sally in the NY Philharmonic’s now legendary concerts of Follies and continued with her Tony Award nominated concert Mostly Sondheim. As a leading star on Broadway during the 50’s and 60’s, her many credits include the creation of three classic roles in the musical theatre:  Cunegonde in Candide, Marian in The Music Man (Tony Award) and Amalia in She Loves Me (Drama Desk Award).  In 1974, Ms. Cook embarked on a concert and recording career, achieving one career high after another from  her solo concert debut at Carnegie Hall in 1975 to her historic solo concert at the MET in 2006 when she became the first female non-classical singer to be presented by the Metropolitan Opera in that company’s long history. The most recent of the many recordings by this Grammy Award winner is the 6-cd boxed set The Essential Barbara Cook.(DRG Records).

 

SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM’s TV commercial Spot

 

BARBARA COOK, VANESSA WILLIAMS & TOM WOPAT talk about the show

 

Read ‘The Sound of Sondheim A new revue marks composer Stephen Sondheim’s 80th birthday’ in Vanity Fair: CLICK HERE

 

“An exceptionally sensitive Sondheim interpreter, Ms. Cook delivers ‘Send in the Clowns’ with a simple, sweet bereftness that breaks your heart.” –Ben Brantley, The New York Times

“Barbara Cook remains a wonder. At 82, she has returned to Broadway after too long an absence to deliver a master class in lyric phrasing. Her exquisite rendition of ‘Send in the Clowns’ demonstrates the essence of musical theater: an expert performer capturing the emotional truth found in a perfect blending of words and music.” –Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press

“BARBARA COOK is INCOMPARABLE.” –Elysa Gardner, USA Today  

PRODUCTION PHOTO:

[Pictured: Barbara Cook, Vanessa Williams]

www.RoundaboutTheatre.org/SondheimOnSondheim

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Meet The Nominees – ANGELA LANSBURY, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC – BEST FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

ANGELA LANSBURY

NOMINATIONS/WINS:

TONY Awards – Nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical 

Drama Desk – Nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical 

Outer Critics Circle – Nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical

Drama League Awards – Nomination for Distinguished Performance Award

Ms. Lansbury has won a record FIVE Tony Awards throughout her long career on stage – her last win was for Blithe Spirit in 2009. She also won Tonys for Mame, Dear World, Gypsy and Sweeney Todd. 

 

LINKS:

Production Website:  www.NightMusicOnBroadway.com

Wikipedia.org: www.wikipedia.org/AngelaLansbury

IMDB.com: www.imdb.com/AngelaLansbury

Twitter Page: www.twitter.com/NightMusicBway

Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/ALittleNightMusic

YouTube.com Page: www.youtube.com/NightMusicOnBway

BIOGRAPHY:

ANGELA LANSBURY (Madame Armfeldt) has enjoyed an unprecedented career spanning more than sixty years, first as a star of motion pictures, and as an award-winning stage actor in New York and London. Most recently, she appeared as Madame Arcati in the 2009 revival of Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit, for which she won her fifth Tony Award®, as well as the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards; and in 2006 in Terrence McNally’s Deuce, for which she was also nominated for a Tony®. She made her Broadway debut in 1957 as Bert Lahr’s wife in Hotel Paradiso. In 1960, she returned to Broadway as Joan Plowright’s mother in the season’s most acclaimed drama, A Taste of Honey, by Shelagh Delaney. A year later, she starred in her first musical, Anyone Can Whistle. Lansbury returned to Broadway in triumph in 1966 as Mame, for which she won her first Tony®. She received others as the Madwoman of Chaillot in Dear World (1968), as Mama Rose in the 1974 revival of Gypsy and as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (1979). From 1984-1996 she starred as Jessica Fletcher, mystery-writing amateur sleuth, on “Murder, She Wrote,” the longest-running detective drama series in the history of television, winning her four Golden Globe Awards. In 1994, Queen Elizabeth named her a Commander of the British Empire, and in 2000 she received the Kennedy Center Honors. Married in 1949, she and husband Peter worked together until his death in 2003. She has three children and three grandchildren.

 

First Look: Liasons

 

Read ‘Side by Side Stephen Sondheim and Angela Lansbury on a lifetime in theater’ from NY Magazine: CLICK HERE

 

“Angela Lansbury is quite delicious.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times

“Angela Lansbury is giving a performance that deserves to be part of theater legend. One of the most delectable musicals ever written.” – Linda Winer, Newsday

“Lansbury’s sublime performance alone makes this production unmissable.” – David Rooney, Variety

PRODUCTION PHOTO:

[Pictured: Angela Lansbury (Madame Armfeldt)]

www.NightMusicOnBroadway.com

Meet The Nominees – ROSEMARY HARRIS, THE ROYAL FAMILY – BEST FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY

ROSEMARY HARRIS

NOMINATIONS/WINS:

TONY Awards – Nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play

Drama League Awards – A Previous Distinguished Performance Award winner, Ms. Harris will be recognized at the ceremony

Outer Critic’s Circle – Nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play

This is Ms. Harris’ ninth Tony nomination.  She was previously nominated for her work in Waiting in the Wings, A Delicate Balance, Hay Fever, Pack of Lies, Heartbreak House, the 1976 revival of The Royal Family, and Old Times; she won for her role in The Lion in Winter.       

LINKS:

Production Website: www.mtc-nyc.org/TheRoyalFamily

Production Twitter Page: www.twitter.com/mtc_nyc

Production Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/ManhattanTheatreClub

Production Youtube Page: www.youtube.com/MTCBroadway

IMDB.com: www.imdb.com/RosemaryHarris

Wikipedia.org: www.wikipedia.org/RosemaryHarris

BIOGRAPHY:

ROSEMARY HARRIS (Fanny Cavendish) Broadway: A Delicate Balance, Waiting in the Wings, An Inspector Calls, Hay Fever, Pack of Lies, Heartbreak House, The Royal Family, A Streetcar Named Desire, Old Times, The Lion In Winter. Six years with APA, two years with APA-Phoenix at The Lyceum. Royal National Theatre: Women of Troy, The Petition, Hamlet, Uncle Vanya. Films: Spiderman, Tom & Viv. Televison: “Notorious Woman,” “Holocaust.” 

 

THE ROYAL FAMILY montage 

Read ‘The Tangle of Branches in a Royal Tree’ from The New York Times: CLICK HERE

Listen to ‘The Leonard Lopate Show: THE ROYAL FAMILY on Broadway’ on WNYC.org: CLICK HERE

Read ‘PLAYBILL.COM’S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Rosemary Harris.’ CLICK HERE

Read ‘Rosemary Harris: My Royal Family Reunion’ on Broadway.com: CLICK HERE

Read ‘Climbing THE ROYAL FAMILY Tree’ on Playbill.com: CLICK HERE

 

“Rosemary Harris and Jan Maxwell are giving the kind of performance that turn agnostics into true believers. It’s something close to a miracle.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times

“Rosemary Harris gives a thrilling and ravishing performance.” – Linda Winer, Newsday

“A fine showcase for two marvelous actresses, Jan Maxwell and Rosemary Harris. They are a joy to behold. Maxwell’s elegant, high-cheekboned beauty and comic dexterity suit the part perfectly. It’s impossible to imagine an actress who would be more likable or funnier. Harris similarly makes us laugh and breaks our heart.” – Elysa Gardner, USA Today

PRODUCTION PHOTO:

[Pictured: Rosemary Harris (Fanny Cavendish)]

www.mtc-nyc.org/TheRoyalFamily

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Meet The Nominees – JESSICA HECHT, A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE – BEST FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY

JESSICA HECHT

NOMINATIONS/WINS:

TONY Awards – Nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play

Drama League Awards – Nomination for Distinguished Performance Award 

LINKS:

Production Website: www.AViewFromTheBridgeOnBroadway.com

Twitter Page: www.twitter.com/VIEWonBroadway

Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/AViewFromtheBridgeonBroadway

IMDB.com: www.imdb.com/JessicaHecht

BIOGRAPHY:

JESSICA HECHT (Beatrice). B’way: Brighton Beach Memoirs, Julius Caesar, After the Fall, The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Off-B’way: Make Me (Atlantic), Howard Katz (Roundabout), The House in Town (Lincoln Center), Flesh & Blood (NYTW), The Fourth Sister (Vineyard), Plunge and Lobster Alice (Playwrights Horizons), Stop Kiss (Public Theater), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre for a New Audience). Williamstown Theatre Festival: The Torchbearers, The Three Sisters, Blithe Spirit, The Autumn Garden, Top Girls, Light Up the Sky, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told. Film: Whatever Works, Dan in Real Life, Starting Out in the Evening, The Forgotten, Sideways, The Grey Zone; upcoming: 25/8, The Winning Season, Helena From the Wedding. TV: “The Good Wife,” “Eleventh Hour,” “Breaking Bad,” “ER,” “Law & Order” x three, “Friends,” “The Single Guy,” “Homicide,” “Seinfeld.”

 

Interview with JESSICA HECHT and members from A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

 

Read ‘Jessica Hecht: Stage and Screen Actress, Mother of Two’ on ParentsKnow.com: CLICK HERE

Read ‘Jessica Hecht tackles Miller, nightly tragedy’ on Metro.com: CLICK HERE

Read ‘’Bridge’ Works And Jessica Hecht is one of the reasons the revival rivets so’ on JewishExponent.com: CLICK HERE

 

“JESSICA HECHT, one of New York’s busiest and BEST STAGE ACTRESSES, gives a FANTASTIC PERFORMANCE of quiet anguish that ultimately erupts into something SHATTERING.” –Joe Dziemianowicz, Daily News

“JESSICA HEICHT plays with heartbreaking PURITY.” –Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY

“Jessica Hecht will tear your heart out.” – Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Post

PRODUCTION PHOTO:

[Pictured: Scarlett Johansson (Catherine), Jessica Hecht (Beatrice)]

www.AViewFromTheBridgeOnBroadway.com

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