Josie de Guzman won her first Tony Award nomination after the 1980 revival of a story based on what play?
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Josie de Guzman Josie de Guzman is an American actress of Puerto Rican descent best known for work in the theatre. After studying at the Boston Conservatory of Music, Guzman made her Broadway debut in 1978 as Lidia in the original production of Elizabeth Swados's "Runaways". She returned to Broadway the following year to portray Gia Campbell in the original production of Joseph Stein and Alan Jay Lerner's "Carmelina". In 1980 she was handpicked by Leonard Bernstein to portray Maria in the 1980 revival of "West Side Story" for which she received her first Tony Award nomination. She returned to Broadway in 1992 to portray Sarah Brown in Jerry Zaks's critically acclaimed revival of Frank Loesser's "Guys and Dolls" with Nathan Lane, Peter Gallagher, and Faith Prince. For her performance she earned a second Tony Award nomination. The recording of the production was filmed for broadcast on PBS's "Great Performances". She is currently a member of the Acting Company of the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas.
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West Side Story West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and conception and choreography by Jerome Robbins. It was inspired by William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet".
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Glengarry Glen Ross Glengarry Glen Ross is a play by David Mamet that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984. The play shows parts of two days in the lives of four desperate Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to engage in any number of unethical, illegal acts—from lies and flattery to bribery, threats, intimidation and burglary—to sell undesirable real estate to unwitting prospective buyers. It is based on Mamet's experience having previously worked in a similar office.
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Play Motel Play Motel is a 1979 Italian giallo film written and directed by Mario Gariazzo (credited as Roy Garrett) and starring Anna Maria Rizzoli and Ray Lovelock.
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Dirty Blonde (play) Dirty Blonde is a play by Claudia Shear. The play ran Off-Broadway and on Broadway in 2000. It involves two fans of Mae West who discover their shared passion for her, and for each other.
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The Country Club (play) The Country Club is an off-Broadway play written by Douglas Carter Beane.
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I Remember Mama (play) I Remember Mama is a play by John Van Druten based on Kathryn Forbes' novel "Mama's Bank Account", which was loosely based on her childhood. It is a study of family life centered on a Norwegian immigrant family in San Francisco early in the 20th century. The play premiered on Broadway on October 19, 1944 at the Music Box Theatre in New York City, where it ran for 713 performances; it was produced by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The cast included Mady Christians, Oscar Homolka, and Joan Tetzel. Marlon Brando played a minor role, making his Broadway debut as Nels.
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Me and Molly Me and Molly is a play by Gertrude Berg based on Berg's long-running radio drama "The Goldbergs". It premiered on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre on February 26, 1948, running for 156 performances through July 10, 1948.
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Tick, Tick... Boom! Tick, Tick... Boom! (styled as tick, tick... BOOM!) is a musical written by American composer Jonathan Larson, who won a Pulitzer and three Tony Awards for his musical "Rent". "Tick, Tick... Boom!" tells the story of an aspiring composer named Jon, who lives in New York City in 1990. Jon is worried he has made the wrong career choice to be part of the performing arts. The story is autobiographical, as stated by Larson's father in the liner notes of the cast recording – Larson had been trying to establish himself in theater since the early 1980s.
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A Memory of Two Mondays A Memory of Two Mondays is a one-act play by Arthur Miller. Based on Miller's own experiences, the play focuses on a group of desperate workers earning their livings in a Brooklyn automobile parts warehouse during the Great Depression in the 1930s, a time of 25 percent unemployment in the United States. Concentrating more on character than plot, it explores the dreams of a young man yearning for a college education in the midst of people stumbling through the workday in a haze of hopelessness and despondency. Three of the characters in the story have severe problems with alcoholism.
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The Nance The Nance is a play written by Douglas Carter Beane. It involves the lives of burlesque performers during the 1930s. A "nance" was a camp stock character in vaudeville and burlesque. The play is a production of Lincoln Center Theater that premiered on Broadway in 2013. It received five Tony Award nominations, and won three awards. It starred Nathan Lane as Chauncey.
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Talley's Folly Talley's Folly is a 1980 play by American playwright Lanford Wilson, the second in his cycle, "The Talley Trilogy" between his plays "Talley & Son" and "Fifth of July". Set in an old boathouse near rural Lebanon, Missouri in 1944, it is a romantic comedy following the characters Matt Friedman and Sally Talley as they once and for all settle their feelings for each other. Wilson received the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work. The play is unique for Wilson in that it takes place in one act, with no intermission, set in ninety-seven minutes of real time. There is no set change.
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Becky Shaw Becky Shaw is a play written by Gina Gionfriddo. The play premiered at the Humana Festival in 2008 and opened Off-Broadway in 2008. The play was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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The Major (play) The Major is an 1881 comedic play produced by Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart.
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Tamara (play) Tamara is a play of 1981 by John Krizanc about the painter Tamara de Lempicka. The play is based on the historical meeting of Gabriele d'Annunzio and Lempicka, who was hoping to be commissioned by d'Annunzio to paint his portrait. He had invited her to his villa at Gardone Riviera, on the southwest shore of Lake Garda, a villa now known as "Il Vittoriale degli Italiani".
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Call Me by My Rightful Name Call Me By My Rightful Name is an American play by Michael Shurtleff which is based on a story by S.F. Pfoutz. The production premiered Off-Broadway on January 31, 1961 at the One Sheridan Square theatre where it ran for a total of 127 performances. The production was directed by Milton Katselas and starred Robert Duvall as Doug, Joan Hackett as Chris, Alvin Ailey as Paul, Robert Hogan as Elliot, Milo Boulton as Mr. Watkins, and Dortha Duckworth as Mrs. Watkins. Hackett won a Theatre World Award, an Obie Award, and a Drama Desk Award for her performance.
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The Neon Woman The Neon Woman is a comic play written by Tom Eyen. The play is an outrageous murder mystery set in a seedy Baltimore burlesque house run by a retired stripper (Divine). It was written as a vehicle for "Pink Flamingos" star Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead), who had previously starred in a revival of Eyen's "Women Behind Bars". The cast also featured Helen Hanft, Brenda Bergman, William Duff-Griffin, Maria Duval, Sweet William Edgar, Lee Corbet, Debra Greenfield, Hope Stansbury and George Patterson, and was directed by longtime Eyen collaborator Ron Link. It played at Hurrah, a trendy dance club on Manhattan's Upper West Side. It opened on April 16, 1978, and played 84 performances, closing on July 15, 1978.
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The Hothouse The Hothouse (1958/1980) is a full-length tragicomedy written by Harold Pinter in the winter of 1958 between "The Birthday Party" (1957) and "The Caretaker" (1959). After writing "The Hothouse" in the winter of 1958 and following the initial commercial failure of "The Birthday Party", Pinter put the play aside; in 1979 he re-read it and directed its first production, at Hampstead Theatre, where it opened on 24 April 1980, transferring to the Ambassadors Theatre on 25 June 1980, and it was first published, also in 1980, by Eyre Methuen. The play received its American premiere at the Trinity Repertory Company in 1982. Pinter himself played Roote in a subsequent production staged at the Minerva Theatre, in Chichester, in 1995, later transferring to the Comedy Theatre, in London.
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Best Friend (play) Best Friend was a 1976 Broadway play written by Michael Sawyer that premiered at the Lyceum Theatre on October 19, 1976 and closed on October 23, 1976 after 8 performances.
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7 Stories 7 Stories is a play created by Canadian playwright Morris Panych.
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Angels Fall Angels Fall is a play written by Lanford Wilson. It debuted at New York's Circle Repertory Company in 1982. The play ran on Broadway in 1983 and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play.
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Strictly Dishonorable (play) Strictly Dishonorable is a romantic comedy play written by Preston Sturges and first produced on Broadway in 1929. It was adapted for the screen twice, first in 1931, then again in 1951. The play was Sturges' second Broadway production, and the first of his plays to be made into a film. The Attic Theater Company revived the show at The Flea Theater in the summer of 2014.