Anthony Rapp
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Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp
Monday, March 31
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Pool Deck - Deck 12, MID -
Broadway Revival: Reinvention vs. Re-creation
Moderated by Gordon Cox
Thursday, April 3
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Stardust Theater - Decks 6 & 7, FWDDoors at 11:30 AMWhat makes a revival successful? Join Brian Stokes Mitchell, Anthony Rapp, Tom Greenwald and Ken Davenport to dissect the fine balance between honoring original works and bringing fresh, modern perspectives to beloved classics.
Biography
Anthony Rapp has been acting and singing professionally since he was nine years old. He is best known for originating the role of Mark Cohen in Jonathan Larson’s Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, RENT, for which he shared an OBIE Award with the rest of the cast. He reprised his role in Chris Columbus’s film version opposite other members of the original cast. Other Broadway credits include the revival of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation; and If/ Then; and his Broadway debut was in Precious Sonswith Judith Ivey and Ed Harris, for which he received an Outer Critics Circle Award and a Drama Desk nomination. Film credits include Adventures in Babysitting, School Ties, Dazed and Confused, Six Degrees of Separation, Man of the Century, Road Trip, A Beautiful Mind, bwoy, and Scrap. TV appearances include “The X-Files,” “Law & Order: SVU,” and “Psych.” He currently plays the role of Commander Paul Stamets on the Paramount + television series “Star Trek: Discovery”. In 2000, he released his debut album, Look Around, and in 2006, his New York Times-bestselling book Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent— on which this show was based — was published by Simon & Schuster.