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Tony-award winning director and choreographer Rob Marshall made his feature film directorial debut with the highly praised Chicago. He won the Director's Guild of America award for that film, and was nominated for an Academy Award. He has choreographed and directed a few made-for-TV films, but most of his work has been on the stage.
Born on October 17, 1960, in Madison, WI, Marshall spent most of his life in Pittsburgh, PA. He became a dancer, but suffered a back injury while performing in Cats, in 1986. Taking the advice of several people that he go into choreography, he began to choreograph shows in regional theatres. In 1993, he choreographed his first Broadway show, Kiss of the Spider Woman, which got him his first Tony award nomination. He won five more Tony nominations over the years, and four Emmy nominations. He won the Emmy for Outstanding Choreography for the television production of Annie, in 2000. In 2005, he directed Memoirs of a Geisha./p>
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Taking his cue from such profusely talented dancer/choreographer-turned-directors as Bob Fosse, former Broadway hoofer Rob Marshall made a scintillating leap into film with his directorial debut Chicago (2002).Born in Wisconsin and raised in Pittsburgh, Marshall began his professional career at age 12 when he joined a local musical theater company. Though he took time off from college to join a touring company of the 1970s Broadway smash A Chorus Line, Marshall returned to school and earned a degree from Carnegie Mellon University's musical theater program. Leaving Pittsburgh after school, he moved to New York City in the early '80s to join the ranks of Broadway "gypsies" vying for a place in the chorus. Marshall sang and danced in several Broadway shows, and worked his way up behind the scenes from dance captain to assistant choreographer. Marshall, however, suffered an injury while dancing in Cats; he subsequently decided to quit performing to concentrate on choreography. He earned his first credit as a Broadway choreographer with the musical version of Kiss of the Spider Woman in 1993. Working steadily in the theater throughout the 1990s, Marshall subsequently choreographed the Broadway revival of Damn Yankees, and took on double duties as choreographer and director of Little Me, Company, Victor/Victoria, and the Los Angeles stage revival of Fosse's 1975 musical Chicago before it moved to New York in 1996. Marshall learned to choreograph for motion pictures when executive producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron hired him to create the dances for the TV musical version of Cinderella (1997). Impressed with his work, Zadan and Meron hired him to direct and choreograph the TV adaptation of Annie (1999), which went on to become the most popular TV movie of 1999.
Marshall topped off his Broadway career when he choreographed and co-directed with Sam Mendes the wildly successful 1998 revival of Cabaret. With his sterling Broadway pedigree as well as his TV experience, Marshall was called by Miramax in 2000 to discuss a film version of Rent. Knowing that Miramax head honcho Harvey Weinstein had long desired to make a movie of Chicago, and that such big names as Madonna, Goldie Hawn, and Nicholas Hytner had already come and gone from the project, Marshall instead pitched Weinstein his idea for how to make Chicago's vaudeville stage structure work for film. With Weinstein's blessing, Marshall tapped screenwriter Bill Condon to transform John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Fosse's saucy musical numbers into stylized, stage-bound figments of murderess and wannabe starlet Roxie Hart's imagination. Over a rigorous rehearsal period, Marshall and his team made sure that the cast, including neophyte chorine Renee Zellweger and musical theater veterans Richard Gere and Catherine Zeta-Jones, could do all of their own singing and dancing onscreen. As his Cabaret predecessor, Fosse, had when adapting that show into an Oscar-winning film, Marshall re-choreographed Chicago for the screen as well, creating dances that evoked the sinuous spirit of Fosse's sexy 1975 choreography without slavishly copying it. After two decades in development, Chicago finally opened to rave reviews for its electrifying performances, witty script, and Marshall's giddy, sharp direction. A prize winner as well as crowd pleaser, Chicago garnered Golden Globes for Gere, Zellweger, and Best Picture (musical or comedy), while Marshall earned a Director's Guild nomination for his first feature. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
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Rob Marshall (born October 17, 1960) is an American theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and four-time Emmy winner whose most noted work is the 2002 Academy Award for Best Picture winner Chicago.
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Life and career
Marshall was born in Madison, Wisconsin and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he attended Taylor Allderdice High School. He attended Carnegie Mellon University and worked in the Pittsburgh theatre scene, performing with such companies as Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera.[1] He debuted in the film industry with the Emmy Award-winning TV adaptation of the musical Annie by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin. After that he went on to direct the much anticipated adaptation of the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago in 2002 for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. His next feature film was the drama Memoirs of a Geisha based on the best-selling book of the same name by Arthur Golden starring Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh and Ken Watanabe. The film went on to win three Academy Awards and gross $162,242,962 at the worldwide box office.[2] In 2009, Marshall directed Nine, an adaptation of the hit Broadway production with the same name starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren and Penélope Cruz, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Marshall then went on to direct Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth chapter of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean film series starring Johnny Depp, Ian McShane, Penélope Cruz and Geoffrey Rush,[3] which opened on May 20, 2011.[4]
Marshall lives in New York City with his life partner John DeLuca.[5]
List of Tony nominations
| Year | Show | Category |
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| 1993 | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Best Choreography |
| 1994 | Damn Yankees | Best Choreography |
| 1994 | She Loves Me | Best Choreography |
| 1998 | Cabaret | Best Choreography |
| 1998 | Cabaret | Best Direction of a Musical |
Filmography
| Year | Film | Academy Award Wins | Academy Award Nominations | Notes |
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| 1995 | Victor/Victoria | - | - | television film, choreographer. Nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography |
| 1996 | Mrs. Santa Claus | - | - | television film, choreographer. Nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography |
| 1997 | Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella | - | - | television film, musical stager and choreographer. Nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography |
| 1999 | Annie | - | - | television film, director and choreographer. Winner of Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography, nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special |
| 2001 | The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | - | - | television event, director. Winner of Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety |
| 2002 | Chicago | 6 | 13 | director and choreographer. Nominated for Academy Award for Best Director. Winner of Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures |
| 2005 | Memoirs of a Geisha | 3 | 6 | director. Nominated for Satellite Award for Best Director |
| 2006 | Tony Bennett: An American Classic | - | - | television film, director/executive producer/co-choreographer. Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special, Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program and Outstanding Choreography |
| 2009 | Nine | - | 4 | director/producer/co-choreographer. Nominated for Satellite Award for Best Director |
| 2011 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | director |
References
- ^ Conner, Lynne (2007). Pittsburgh In Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 204. ISBN 978-0-8229-4330-3. Retrieved 2011-06-06
- ^ http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=memoirsofageisha.htm
- ^ Michael Fleming (2009-08-02). "Rob Marshall circles 'Pirates'". Variety. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006813.html?categoryid=13&cs=1. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
- ^ http://disney.go.com/pirates/
- ^ http://www.afterelton.com/archive/elton/people/2007/1/hollywoodmen3.html
External links
- Rob Marshall at the Internet Movie Database
- Rob Marshall at the Internet Broadway Database
- Rob Marshall at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
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