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Nine is a musical initiated by and with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Arthur Kopit.It is based on the 1963 film 8½.. The show tells the story of film director Guido Contini, who is dreading his imminent 40th birthday and facing a midlife crisis, which is blocking his creative impulses and entangling him in a web of romantic difficulties in early-1960s Venice.
In 1965, Guido Contini is a gifted Italian filmmaker at the famous Cinecittà movie studios in Rome. Having turned fifty and developed writer's block, he conjures all the women in his life, both alive and deceased, for inspiration, including: Luisa (née Acari), his wife; Claudia Jenssen, his star actress; Carla Albanese, his mistress; Liliane "Lilli" La Fleur, his costume designer and ...
Akers first appeared on Broadway in the original production of Nine, a musical directed by Tommy Tune and based on the Federico Fellini film 8½, as Luisa Contini, the wife of promiscuous film director Guido Contini (played by Raúl Juliá). The show opened May 9, 1982, and had a successful run of 732 performances, closing February 4, 1984.
Inspired by the life of n Federico Fellini, Nine follows famed film director Guido Contini, who struggles with writer's block after celebrating a milestone birthday. For inspiration, he turns to ...
She is an "avid fan of Guido Contini's movies – but for all the wrong reasons. She loves the style over the content." [3] Maury Yeston described the motivation behind the character, and the purpose of the song within the context of the film: "Cinema Italiano" defines the character that Kate Hudson plays. She is a particularly shallow commentator.
Daniel Day-Lewis – Nine as Guido Contini; Joseph Gordon-Levitt – (500) Days of Summer as Tom Hansen; Michael Stuhlbarg – A Serious Man as Larry Gopnik; Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia as Julia Child. Sandra Bullock – The Proposal as Margaret Tate; Marion Cotillard – Nine as Luisa Contini; Julia Roberts – Duplicity as Claire Stenwick
Raúl Juliá – Nine as Guido Contini; Jennifer Holliday – Dreamgirls as Effie White. Lisa Mordente – Marlowe as Emelia Bossano; Mary Gordon Murray – Little Me as Belle Poitrine; Sheryl Lee Ralph – Dreamgirls as Deena Jones; Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
After that came Maury Yeston's Nine at the Folies Bergère, where Pradon played Guido Contini, the sole male role. In 1998 Pradon performed in Killing Rasputin , and in 2000 performed in Black Goes with Everything (a show celebrating the talent of Don Black ) and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Whistle Down the Wind where he played the role of The Man ...