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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 ...
After Guiding Light concluded, Newman focused on stage work, including a production of Peter Pan, in the role of Captain Hook, as Guido Contini in a 2004 production of the musical Nine and in Ira Levin's Death Trap at The Barn Theatre in Augusta, Michigan. [2] Newman has also appeared in several productions of Gypsy as Herbie.
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 ...
“You can’t bring the actual people who are running on because of election laws and the equal time provisions,” he stated. “You can’t have the main candidates without having all the ...
It’s been one year since three of Jordan Willis’ friends, Clayton McGeeney, David Harrington and Ricky Johnson, were found dead outside Willis’ rental home in Kansas City, Mo.
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.
Christian Juttner, the former child actor who began his early career in Hollywood in the 1970s, has died.He was 60. Juttner, who started working in TV several years before his starring role in ...