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2015 Tony Award® Nominations Best Play Best Best Best Featured Best Actor Actress Actress Director Steven Geneva Sarah Moritz Von Boyer Carr Stiles Stuelpnagel 06.04.15 • BACKSTAGE.COM 2015 TONY AWARD® NOMINATIONS BEST PLAY BEST BEST BEST FEATURED BEST ACTOR ACTRESS ACTRESS DIRECTOR STEVEN GENEVA SARAH MORITZ VON BOYER CARR STILES STUELPNAGEL THE MOST-NOMINATED Photo by Joan Marcus coverwrap V02.indd 1 6/2/15 4:21 PM TONY AWARD NOMINATION BEST ACTOR-STEVEN BOYER “THE SENSATIONAL STEVEN BOYER’s performance as Jason is tender and touching, his performance as Tyrone outlandish and hilarious; put them together and you have that rarely seen (although often hailed) acting achievement: A TRUE TOUR DE FORCE.” THE MOST-NOMINATED TONY AWARD NOMINATION BEST ACTRESS- GENEVA CARR “THE WONDERFUL GENEVA CARR plays a character on the dangerous edge of desperation throughout, but she keeps Margery sympathetic, giving her fragility a soft sexiness that makes her believable as an object of desire to both the lonely pastor and the teenage delinquent.” Photos by Joan Marcus Untitled-3 1 6/1/15 12:13 PM 06.04.15 • BACKSTAGE.COM 0604 COVER V02.indd 1 6/2/15 11:43 AM BEFORE THEY WERE STARS, THEY WERE STUDENTS. Christian Borle, Carnegie Mellon Alumnus, 2015 Tony Awards Stephen Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon nominee for Best Performance Alumnus, 2015 Isabelle Stevenson by a Featured Actor in a Musical Award Recipient THE TONY AWARDS® AND CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY ARE PROUD TO PRESENT THE INAUGURAL EXCELLENCE IN THEATRE EDUCATION AWARD. TUNE IN TO THE 69TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS ON CBS, SUNDAY, JUNE 7. CMU.EDU/TONY-AWARDS • #CMUtonys Untitled-18 1 5/26/15 4:11 PM CONTENTS vol. 56, no. 23 | 06.04.15 COVER STORY page 18 NEWS 8 On the scene at the 2015 Heller Awards YOUR 2015 9 MN Acting Studio’s new workshops 10 Six missing Tony Award categories TONY- ADVICE 13 THE WORKING ACTOR Bypassing the gatekeepers NOMINATED 14 SECRET AGENT MAN Who’s on your team? 16 #IGOTCAST ACTORS Courtney Jensen And why their performances reigned FEATURES supreme on 2014–15 Broadway stages 6 BACKSTAGE 5 WITH… Debi Mazar 12 INSIDE JOB Gerald Griffith, VoiceoverCity 14 SPOTLIGHT ON… Ty Simpkins 16 NOW STREAMING “L.A. Beer” 22 THE REAL TONY WINNERS Every year there is a Tony telecast performance that becomes iconic. We asked five current nominees for their personal favorites 24 ENSEMBLISTS, ASSEMBLE Mo Brady and Nikka Graff Lanzarone’s podcast highlights musical theater’s unsung heroes 26 HOME SWEET HEAVEN At the Actors Home, older performers and theater professionals find a like- minded community 46 MEET THE MAKER Oren Moverman, “Love & Mercy” CASTING 28 New York Tristate 33 California 38 National/Regional Illustrations by Luke Cloran. Cover designed by Jessica Balaschak. LUKE CLORAN LUKE 06.04.15 backstage 3 0604 TOC_MASTHEAD V03.indd 3 6/2/15 3:32 PM Chief Executive Officer President & Chief Financial Officer Chief Technology Officer Corporate Controller Peter Rappaport Chief Operating Officer Michael Felman Mike Mepham Scott Wilson Joshua Ellstein Vice President, Vice President of Director of Digital Engineering Graphic Designer David Grossman James G. Reynolds Jeff lilley EDIToRIAl ART CASTInG CUSToMER SERvICE Editor-in-Chief Design Director Vice President & Customer Service Manager Mark Peikert Jessica Balaschak National Casting Editor Ron Kagan luke Crowe Senior Digital Editor Art Director Customer Service Associates Rebecca Strassberg Margaret Ruling Managing Casting Editor lindsay Bytof Melinda loewenstein Danny Camporeale Associate Editor PRoDUCTIon Briana Rodriguez Supervising Casting Editor Production Manager veronika Daddona ADvERTISInG SAlES Assistant Editor Mark Stinson Director, Jack Smart Film & TV Casting Editors Integrated Marketing John Berkowitz Kasey Howe Community Manager Alessandra Rizzotti Britney Fitzgerald Group Sales Director Theater & Performing Allen Buhl Copy Editor Arts Casting Editors Brandy Colbert Michael Coughlin, Senior Manager, Business Development (N.Y.) Contributing Editors Anna Paone Gerry Sankner Molly Eichel Casting Editor Tim Grierson Elijah Cornell Account Executive (L.A.) Marci liroff lindsay Feinstein Sean J. Miller Regional Casting Editor Heather Quinlan Byron Karlevics MARKETInG Casting Specialist Marketing Associate Moeima Dukuly Ryan Remstad Molly Matthews Director of Education Research Editor & and Events Call Sheet Editor Tom lapke Rebecca Welch Backstage was founded in 1960 by Ira Eaker and Allen Zwerdling EDIToRIAl oFFICES CASTInG DEPARTMEnT CUSToMER SERvICE PERMISSIon 45 Main St. N.Y.: 212-493-4420 646-455-1645 For one-time use of our content, Brooklyn, NY 11201 L.A.: 323-525-2358 [email protected] as a full article, excerpt, or [email protected] production prop, contact 5700 Wilshire Blvd. [email protected] Los Angeles, CA 90036 DISPlAY ADvERTISInG [email protected] [email protected] BACKSTAGE, vol. 56, no. 23 (ISSn#1930-5966 USPS#039-740) IS PUBlISHED WEEKlY (except the first week of July and the fourth week of December) by Backstage LLC, 45 Main St., Brooklyn, NY 11201, $3.99 per copy, $99 per year. Periodicals postage paid at GPO, NY, NY 10001 and additional mailing offices. Printed in USA. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Backstage, 340 S. Lemon Ave. #4234, Walnut, CA 91789. Publication Mail Agreement No. 40031729. ©2015 Backstage LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Backstage LLC: Peter Rappaport, Chief Executive Officer; Joshua Ellstein, President and Chief Operating Officer. 4 backstage 06.04.15 BACKSTAGE.COM 0604 TOC_MASTHEAD V03.indd 4 6/2/15 3:33 PM TONY AWARD® NOMINATIONS I NC LUDI NG 9 BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL! BEN BRANTLEY, THE NEW YORK TIMES Photos by Paul Kolnik ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING COMING SOON ON DECCA RECORDS/ UNIVERSAL MUSIC CLASSICS 150 WEST 65TH STREET • TELECHARGE.COM 212-239-6200 • GROUPS: 212-889-4300 SPONSOR KINGANDIBROADWAY.COM With gratitude to the Stacey and Eric Mindich Fund for Musical Theater at LCT for their leading support of this production. Major Sponsors: The Jerome L. Greene Foundation and American Express Untitled-4 1 6/1/15 12:43 PM BACKSTAGE 5 WITH... Debi Mazar By Rebecca Strassberg Fresh off the success of TV Land’s “Younger,” Debi Mazar is gearing up for the release of the “Entourage” movie June 3, in which she reprises her role as fast-talking publicist Shauna. Mazar chats about her experience on the hit HBO series, what she’s learned over the course of her career, and the survival job for which she had no experience. Tell us about your experience with “Entourage.” It’s one of the most fun TV series I’ve ever done. Very collaborative. I got to improvise quite a lot. I’ll really miss the experience, but the movie looks fantastic and I’d love the opportunity to play Shauna once again if there’s a sequel. What have you learned about yourself on this project? I don’t grow necessarily as an actor, but I grow as a person. Being on “Entourage” taught me that no matter how tired I was or what condition I was in, I could absolutely pull it out of my back pocket to talk as fast as anybody, be clear to the point, fierce, and deliver. We worked under hard condi- tions—location, location, location—but I walked away knowing that I was and am a strong woman. “Entourage” has been about staying true to myself. What do you wish you’d known before you started acting? I feel like when I got successful, I got slightly com- placent. And I wish that I had worked harder to not rely on the system and kept on constantly being creative and kept on pushing the buttons and showing other accents and other sides of myself. “ ‘ENTOURAGE’ The parts were kind of just coming in and I was going, “Oh yeah, great, I’ll do that, I’ll do that,” TAUGHT ME THAT instead of taking major risks at a certain time. NO MATTER HOW On whom do you have an acting crush? Marcello Mastroianni and Alberto Sordi. I love swarthy, TIRED I WAS OR Latin men—especially Italian. I married one! Alberto WHAT CONDITION Sordi was just this big, imposing guy who played vul- nerable, who played strong, who played blue-collar, I WAS IN, I COULD who played elegant. He just played many, many sides, and I just found him really interesting and sexy. ABSOLUTELY They’re both just multifaceted, very versatile actors. PULL IT OUT OF What was your worst survival job? I saw an ad in the New York Times and I auditioned, MY BACK POCKET basically, to be a dental assistant. I got the job and he TO TALK AS FAST thought that I really had experience. So on the first day on the job I went and got my nurse’s outfit. I wore AS ANYBODY, BE white fishnets and lime green pumps, and cut my uniform way above my knee. And he didn’t mind! But CLEAR TO THE then he was, like, “Can you pass me the hemostat?” And I was, like, “You mean the picker?” And he looked POINT, FIERCE, at me and said, “Picker?” I got fired the next day.• AND DELIVER.” Photograph courtesy TV Land 6 backstage 06.04.15 BACKSTAGE.COM 0604 Backstage 5 V04.indd 6 6/2/15 11:35 AM 5 TONY AWARD® NOMINATIONS including Best MUSICAL REVIVAL Best ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL KRISTIN CHENOWETH TONY AWARD NOMINEE Best FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL ANDY KARL TONY AWARD NOMINEE Best Scenic Design of A MUSICAL DAVID ROCKWELL TONY AWARD NOMINEE Best COSTUME Design of A MUSICAL WILLIAM IVEY LONG TONY AWARD NOMINEE Book and Lyrics by MUSIC BY Photo: Matt Hoyle and Joan Marcus Betty Comden & AdolPH Green CY COLEMAN Based on the plays by Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur and Bruce Millholland.
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