Anthony Crivello

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Anthony Crivello

Born August 2, 1955
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Personal life

Crivello was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Josephine (née Mussomeli) and Vincent J. Crivello.[1] He married Dori Rosenthal on May 14, 2005.

[edit] 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 is currently one of two actors rotating in the title role in the Las Vegas production of The Phantom of the Opera.

Crivello can be heard on the cast recordings of:

Awards
Preceded by
Scott Waara
for The Most Happy Fella		 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical
1993
for Kiss of the Spider Woman		 Succeeded by
Jarrod Emick
for Damn Yankees

[edit] Filmography

[edit] References

  1. ^ Anthony Crivello Biography (1955-)

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