SOLD OUT: F. MURRAY
ABRAHAM, Best Actor Academy Award Winner, IN PERSON!
Special 85th birthday tribute and fundraiser, with a screening
of Miloš Forman’s masterpiece, Amadeus
Monday,
April 7th at 7PM
In Conversation with legendary producer and lifelong friend, Julian Schlossberg
Tickets
include a special 85th birthday celebratory screening of F.
Murray Abraham’s acclaimed performance in Amadeus plus a conversation with legendary
producer Julian Schlossberg, followed by a gala reception with live
music.
The Cinema
Arts Centre is honored to welcome the incomparable F. Murray Abraham,
winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor, for a celebration of his 85th Birthday
and a tribute to his exceptional and remarkably multifaceted career in film,
theater, television and narration. In addition to his legendary performance
in Amadeus, for which he was honored with the Academy Award
for Best Actor, his more than 80 film roles have ranged from The
Ritz, Scarface, The Name of the Rose, Finding Forrester,
Inside Llewyn Davis, and The Grand Budapest Hotel to
his two-time Emmy Award nominated role as a regular cast member in
Showtime’s Homeland. His most recent starring
role was in the second season of HBO’s The White Lotus, for
which he received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. A veteran of the stage in
over 90 plays, F. Murray Abraham’s theatrical triumphs include his Broadway
debut in The Man in the Glass Booth, directed by Harold
Pinter; his Obie winning performance in Chekhov’s Uncle
Vanya; as Pozzo in Mike Nichol’s Waiting
for Godot; and as Roy Cohn in the first Broadway
production of Tony Kushner’s Angels in
America. In addition, his mellifluous voice is familiar to
all as the narrator of over 32 episodes of the PBS Nature series.
Acting with
unabated energy, F. Murray Abraham is currently rehearsing his starring role
opposite Kristin Chenoweth for the upcoming 2025 Broadway
musical play, The Queen of Versailles.
FILM: AMADEUS:
F. Murray Abraham has gone down in film history for his unforgettable,
tour-de-force performance as Antonio Salieri in Miloš
Forman’s cinematic masterpiece, the 1984 film Amadeus.
Playing both a haughty, younger Salieri and the aged artist beset with
decrepitude, F. Murray Abraham took on the complex role of the
supposedly envious composer bitter with God for having granted true musical
genius to an unlikely and buffoonish Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart –
played to hilarious effect by the clownishly bewigged Tom Hulce. Amadeus was
shot on location in Prague with sweeping cinematic effect, filled with
an array of Mozart’s most transporting music - some performed within the County
Nostitz Theatre where Don Giovanni and La clemenza di
Tito debuted two centuries earlier. Along with choreography by Twyla
Tharp, Amadeus also stars Simon Callow, Christine
Ebersole, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice, Jeffrey Jones and Charles
Kay (with Cynthia Nixon in early appearance). F.
Murray Abraham’s prestigious Oscar honor took center place in a film that also
won seven more, including the Academy’s other supreme awards: Best
Director and Best Picture. (Dir. Miloš Forman, 1984, 162 min.)
GUEST INTERVIEWER: Julian
Schlossberg
Veteran motion picture, Broadway, television and music producer Julian
Schlossberg, among many other accomplishments, has been the producer’s
representative for Dustin Hoffman, Elia Kazan, John Cassavetes, George
C. Scott, Elaine May and Robert Duvall. He is also an
acclaimed interviewer of hundreds of celebrities, ranging from Jack
Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Joan Baez, Angela Lansbury, Norman Lear and Clint
Eastwood to William F. Buckley, Tom Brokaw, Noam Chomsky,
President George Bush, Deepak Chopra, Gore Vidal, Henry Kissinger and Archbishop
Tutu. He is also one of F.
Murray Abraham’s closest friends.
Julian Schlossberg, center, with Elaine May and
Alan Arkin.
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Produced and Curated by Jud Newborn
Thanks to
our Sponsors
Lydia Sabosto, Pianist and Vocalist
Christopher Appoldt, Portrait Photogapher
Waldo Cabrera, National Video Journalists Network (NVJN)
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