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Tony Nominee Robert Cuccioli and Angelina Fiordellisi To Star in "SNOW ORCHID" Off-Broadway This February

Posted by:	Official_Press_Release 04:48 pm EST 11/13/14

Home. Where love and fear go hand in hand. Tony Award Nominee ROBERT CUCCIOLI and ANGELINA FIORDELLISI To Star in a New Version of the Classic Drama SNOW ORCHID by JOE PINTAURO Directed by VALENTINA FRATTI STRICTLY LIMITED ENGAGEMENT FOUR WEEKS ONLY! FEBRUARY 3-28, 2015 AT THE LION THEATRE ON THEATRE ROW TICKETS ON SALE NOW WWW.TELECHARGE.COM WWW.SNOWORCHIDTHEPLAY.COM This February, Tony Award nominee Robert Cuccioli and Angelina Fiordellisi will star in a new version of Joe Pintauro's classic drama SNOW ORCHID at Off-Broadway's Lion Theatre on Theatre Row (410 W. 42nd St.). Presented by the Miranda Theatre Company and directed by Valentina Fratti, SNOW ORCHID will play a strictly limited four-week engagement, February 3-28, 2015. The official Opening is Sunday, February 8 at 3 p.m. In 1964 Brooklyn, Rocco Lazarra (Cuccioli) is returning home to face his family, a year after having suffered a nervous breakdown. His fiery wife, Filumena (Fiordellisi), hasn't left their house since before his departure, and longs for her native Sicily. Their two sons -- Sebbie, a car mechanic, and Blaise, a college dropout -- urge her to get out of the house, but with no success. Sebbie longs to escape his complicated relationship with his mother, who knows he is gay but denies it, while his younger brother Blaise tries to earn the motherly love Filumena has never shown him. And now, with Rocco's long-anticipated return, the family fears his temperament and instability will once again throw their lives into chaos. Complete casting will be announced soon. Joe Pintauro's plays include Beside Herself, The Dead Boy, Raft of the Medusa, Men's Lives, Heaven and Earth and By the Sea. His first incarnation of Snow Orchid was produced in New York City by the Circle Repertory Theatre in the 1980s, starring Peter Boyle, Olympia Dukakis and Robert LuPone. Pintauro is a recipient of the Guild Hall Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Arts and the John Steinbeck Literary Award. Robert Cuccioli's Broadway credits include Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark, Les Miserables and Jekyll & Hyde -- for which he received a Tony Award nomination, a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award. His numerous Off-Broadway credits include Bikeman, Temporary Help, Enter the Guardsman, And the World Goes Round (Outer Critics Circle Award), Gigi and more. His film and television credits include Woody Allen's Celebrity, The Stranger, "White Collar" and "Sliders." Angelina Fiordellisi has performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, on tour and regionally in more than 60 plays, including Zorba, Annie, Private Lives (Best Actress Award, Detroit Free Press), Blithe Spirit, Nunsense, Man of La Mancha, Tamara, What The Butler Saw and many more. As founder, artistic director of the new Cherry Lane Theatre, she has produced 77 plays Off and Off-Off Broadway, created and co-founded the Obie Award-winning Mentor Project. Director Valentina Fratti is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the Miranda Theatre Company. Under its auspices, her directing credits include Jeff Daniels' Apartment 3A, The Book of Wren, Innocent Thoughts, Prostitutki and Near Normal. Other recent credits include Resonance Ensemble's R.U.R. at the Clurman Theatre; Two Brothers at Theater for the New City and The Green Manifesto by Anne Berlin and Andy Cohen at the New York International Fringe Festival. SNOW ORCHID features scenic design by Patrick Rizzotti, costume design by Brooke Cohen, lighting design by Travis McHale, sound design and original music by Quentin Chiappetta and hair and wig design by Rob Green and J. Jared Janas. Rachel Reiner serves as Executive Producer and General Manager. Anne Berlin is Associate Producer. For more information, visit SnowOrchidThePlay.com. THEATRE, TICKETING AND PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE SNOW ORCHID plays a strictly limited four-week engagement at Off-Broadway's Lion Theatre on Theatre Row (410 W. 42nd St.), February 3-28, 2015. The weekly performance schedule is as follows: Tuesday at 7 p.m. Wednesday through Friday at 8 p.m. Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets are $45-$55 (plus a $1.25 restoration fee) and are now available by visiting Telecharge.com or by calling 212-239-6200. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the Theatre Row Box Office. Box Office hours are noon until curtain time, daily. ROBERT CUCCIOLI (Rocco Lazarra). Broadway: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Les Miserables, Jekyll & Hyde (Tony nomination, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, FANY, Joseph Jefferson Awards). Off-Broadway: Bikeman, Temporary Help, Enter The Guardsman, And the World Goes 'Round (Outer Critics Circle Award), Gigi, The Rothschilds, Jacques Brel... and Dietrich & Chevalier. Regional: The Guthrie (Antony & Cleopatra), Paper Mill Playhouse (Numerous), The Shakespeare Theatre of NJ (Amadeus, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Carnival, Othello), The Shakespeare Theatre of DC (Hamlet, Lorenzzaccio: Helen Hayes nomination), the McCarter Theatre (Fiction, The School for Scandal), George Street Playhouse (The Seafarer, A Moon to Dance By with Jane Alexander), Ford's Theatre (1776: Helen Hayes nomination). Television: "White Collar," "Sliders," "Baywatch," "Guiding Light." Film: Woody Allen's Celebrity, The Stranger. Recordings: Jekyll & Hyde, And the World Goes 'Round, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living In Paris, The Look of Love (Debut Solo Album). www.robertcuccioli.com ANGELINA FIORDELLISI (Filumena Lazarra) has performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, national tours and regionally in over 60 plays, including Zorba, Annie, Private Lives (Best Actress Award, Detroit Free Press), Blithe Spirit, Nunsense, Man of La Mancha, Tamara, What The Butler Saw, The Great White Hope, Savage In Limbo, The Gravity of Honey (Best Actress Award, Detroit Free Press; Best Actress nom., Carbonell Award; Best Play, Dublin Fringe Festival). Her film credits include When a Man Loves a Woman, Where The Heart Is, Walker Payne, Out of Darkness, Delusion, Word of Honor and soon-to-be-released Big Stone Gap and Straight Outta Tompkins. Television credits include "Law & Order," "L.A. Law," "Star Trek: TNG," "The Cosby Show," "Roseanne," "Thunder Alley," "The Kennedy Center Honors" and "Long Island Medium." As founder and Artistic Director of the new Cherry Lane Theatre, she has produced 77 plays Off and Off-Off Broadway, created and co-founded the Obie Award-winning Mentor Project, which has launched 50 new playwrights, including Katori Hall and Rajiv Joseph. www.cherrylanetheatre.org. JOE PINTAURO (Playwright) is an American playwright and novelist. Plays: Snow Orchid (Eugene O'Neill Conference, Circle Rep, London's Gate, Notting Hill); Beside Herself (Circle Rep); The Dead Boy (New Jersey Rep); Raft of the Medusa (Minetta Lane, Cherry Lane); Men's Lives, based on the book by Peter Matthiessen (Baystreet Theatre); Heaven and Earth, based on a photo essay by Steve Wick (Baystreet Theatre); By the Sea, first play of a trilogy with Lanford Wilson and Terrence McNally (Baystreet Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club). Twenty-seven short plays including Rosen's Son (Chicago's Dolphin Back Theatre) and The Traverse (Edinburgh Theatre Festival). Two novels: Cold Hands (Simon and Schuster, NYT New and Noteworthy and Best Books of the Year) and State of Grace (Times Books). He is now completing his third novel, set in Paris in the 1960s; a memoir based on his relationship with the writer Nelson Algren; and has been workshopping two new plays at the Cherry Lane Theatre. He is a recipient of the Guild Hall Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Arts and the John Steinbeck Literary Award. VALENTINA FRATTI (Director) is co-founder and Artistic Director of the Miranda Theatre Company, where her directing credits include Jeff Daniels' Apartment 3A, The Book of Wren, Innocent Thoughts, Prostitutki and Near Normal. Most recently, she directed Resonance Ensemble's R.U.R. at the Clurman Theatre; Two Brothers at Theater for the New City, The Green Manifesto by Anne Berlin and Andy Cohen at the New York International Fringe Festival. Other credits include Revolution, Love Stinks (SPF Abridged Festival, Public Theatre), Little Drummer, Rocky's First Christmas, Pocket Change, Charles Duncombe's Patriot Act at the Castillo Theatre and Young Playwrights Festivals at the Cherry Lane Alternative and the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Playwrights Horizons. Readings include Howling Hilda with Mary Testa, Ginna Carter's Traffic School with Elaine Stritch and Carla Cook's The War with Lynn Cohen. As a playwright, her works include Unearthed, The Male Appetite, Jerusalem Mountain and Shooting Medea. She works with commercial producer Jane Harmon and was the Associate Producer on the Broadway production of Alfred Uhry's Tony Award-winning Best Play The Last Night of Ballyhoo.

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