Tom D'Angora

Tom D'Angora is a 3 time Drama Desk nominated and Off-Broadway Alliance Award winning New York based theatrical producer whose Off-Broadway credits include NEWSical: The Musical, Naked Boys Singing!, Back In Pictures, the Backstage Bistro Award Winning Divas I've Done and A Broadway Diva Christmas.

D'Angora's first foray into producing was with his one man show titled Divas I've Done [1] that started at Don't Tell Mama's, transferred to LA's Room 5 Lounge, played the 2004 summer season in Provincetown, MA, and eventually played Off-Broadway. It was the final show to play Upstairs at Studio 54 before the space closed and ended its run at Theater Row. The show won D'Angora the Backstage Bistro Award for Best Musical Comedy, beating out Broadway stars and Cabaret legends for the honor [2] During that time D'Angora established relationships with many of the "divas" featured in his show including Little Shop of Horrors Ellen Greene, whose album In His Eyes D'Angora he served as Executive Producer on.[3] In 2005, D'Angora and his now husband Michael Duling, brought Greene as well as recording and Broadway artist Maya Days, Emmy nominee Kathy Brier, Tony Award nominee Marla Schaffel, and Forbidden Broadway's Christine Pedi together for the seasonal musical revue A Broadway Diva Christmas.[4]

In Provincetown D'Angora starred in the highly controversial 2001 production of Naked Boys Singing and in 2007 took over the producing responsibilities [5] Since then he has produced and directed the 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 productions with Duling [6] In addition to Naked Boys Singing he has also brought such acts as Golden Girls Rue McClanahan, Ellen Greene, Christine Pedi, Debbie Does Dallas: the musical, and most notably ICONS: drag extravaganza which has since transferred to an Off-Broadway run.[7]

In 2010 Tom began producing responsibilities of NEWSical: the Musical, the ever evolving Off-Broadway musical which spoofs newsmakers, celebrities, politicians, and pop culture trends.[8] The show went on to be nominated for Drama Desk Awards for the 2010 edition, titled "We Distort You Decide". The 2011 edition, "Full Spin Ahead!", was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Best Musical Revue [9] and won the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Musical.[10] in 2012 D'Angora opened his third consecutive edition of NEWSical The Musical titled "End of the World Edition" which was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Musical Revue. In 2012 D'Angora revolutionized Off-Broadway casting when it was announced that NEWSical would have a rotating cast of celebrity guest stars appearing. Celebrity guest stars have included Perez Hilton, Andrea McArdle, Cheri Oteri, Carson Kressley, Jackee Harry, Kandi Burruss and La Toya Jackson. As of August 2014 NEWSical has played over 1,500 performances at Theatre Rows Kirk Theater making it the longest running show in the history of the legendary theater complex.

Tom has been featured as himself appearing in several reality television shows including Edens World on Logo and Life with La Toya on OWN. NEWSical and Tom were the subject of a full episode of Life with La Toya in 2014. D'Angora has also worked in film serving as a co producer on The Big Gay Musical and Executive producer on Mangus.

References

  1. ↑ Playbill.com, The Leading Men, Dec 1 2003
  2. ↑ Cabaret Hotline Online
  3. ↑ Gans, Andrew. "Confessions of a Broadway Fan" playbill.com, July 7, 2005
  4. ↑ Invoking the Touch of a Diva: Holiday Favorites with Wit, Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times, Dec 21, 2005
  5. ↑ Provincetown Banner.
  6. ↑ Provincetown Magazine
  7. ↑ Broadwayworld.com, Nov 14th, 2011
  8. ↑ Gans, Andrew."Bianco, West, O'Malley, Griffin and Walker Will Join Pedi in Off-Broadway Return of NEWSical the Musical" playbill.com, November 10, 2009
  9. ↑ DramaDesk.com
  10. ↑ offbroadwayalliance.com/awards/
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