Anthony Crivello

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.^[1] He graduated from Saint Thomas More High School (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) in 1973 and was inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame in 1995. In the Milwaukee area, he appeared in productions at Sunset Playhouse directed by Alan Furlan.^[2] He married actress Dori Rosenthal on May 14, 2005, and they have two children together.

Career

His first Broadway role was as a replacement in the original production of Evita in 1983. He then appeared in the musical The News and Les Misérables 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. He also played Maxwell the independent contractor on Seinfeld.

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

• Phantom: Las Vegas
• Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Marie Christine
• Jane Eyre (Toronto Cast)
• Les Misérables (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: The Movie
• 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

• Anthony Crivello at the Internet Broadway Database
• Anthony Crivello at the Internet Movie Database
• Anthony Crivello at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• darkestnight: the works of Alain Boubil & Claude-Michel Schönberg
• BroadwayWorld.com interview with Anthony Crivello, June 23, 2007