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27-626: A workshop production at Seattle Repertory Theatre was held in April 1988, directed by Daniel J. Sullivan , starring Lizbeth MacKay , Caroline Aaron , and Gretchen Corbett . The play premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on November 18, 1988 and closed on February 19, 1989 after 99 performances. It then transferred to Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre , opening on March 9, 1989 and closing on September 1, 1990, after 622 performances. Both productions were directed by Sullivan. The set design

54-639: A Drama Desk Award , a special Outer Critics Circle Award , and a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play. He also headed 10 Million Miles , a musical project by Keith Bunin and Grammy Award -nominated singer-songwriter Patty Griffin , that premiered in Spring 2007 at the Atlantic Theater Company . Hulce was a lead producer of the Broadway hit Spring Awakening , which won eight Tony Awards in 2007, including one for Best Musical. He

81-638: A 2007 Tony Award for Best Musical as a lead producer for Spring Awakening , an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for Amadeus , and four Golden Globe nominations. Thomas Edward Hulce was born on December 6, 1953, in Detroit, Michigan (some sources incorrectly cite his birthplace as Whitewater, Wisconsin ). The youngest of four children, he was raised in Plymouth, Michigan . His mother, Joanna Winkleman, sang briefly with Phil Spitalny 's All-Girl Orchestra, and his father, Raymond Albert Hulce, worked for

108-498: A US$ 2 million gift from The Kreielsheimer Foundation, a US$ 1 million gift from then board chair Marsha S. Glazer, and the leadership of Capital Campaign chairs Ann Ramsay-Jenkins and Stanley Savage. There are 282 seats total: 192 on the orchestra level (including loge ), plus 90 balcony and box seats. It is approximately 25 feet (7.6 m) from the stage to the rear wall. There are 5 wheelchair locations. The orchestra seating consists of 139 seats in 9 rows, with 8–20 seats per row;

135-767: A pediatrician in a television-movie version of the Wendy Wasserstein play The Heidi Chronicles , starring Jamie Lee Curtis . Also that year, he was cast in Disney's animated film adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame , providing the speaking and singing voice of the protagonist Quasimodo . Although Hulce largely retired from acting in the mid-1990s, he had bit parts in the movies Stranger Than Fiction (2006) and Jumper (2008). Hulce remained active in theater throughout his entire acting career. In addition to Equus , he appeared in Broadway productions of A Memory of Two Mondays and A Few Good Men , for which he

162-570: Is also a lead producer of the stage adaptation of the Green Day album American Idiot . The musical had its world premiere in Berkeley, California, at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2009 and opened on Broadway in April 2010. In 2017 he began work as a producer on the musical Ain't Too Proud , which received 11 Tony Award nominations in 2019. He also produced the 2004 movie A Home at

189-592: Is an American actor and theatre producer. He is best known for his portrayal of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Academy Award-winning film Amadeus (1984), as well as the roles of Larry "Pinto" Kroger in Animal House (1978), Larry Buckman in Parenthood (1989), and Quasimodo in Disney's animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). Hulce's awards include an Emmy Award for The Heidi Chronicles ,

216-413: Is arguably Heidi's best friend, and Scoop Rosenbaum, a magazine editor who marries and has many affairs, and with whom Heidi has a tense friendship. Heidi meets Scoop at a Eugene McCarthy rally where he tries to woo her with knowledge and wit. She seems unenthused, but she realizes Scoop is a very intelligent, attractive man despite his egotistical ways. Although their romantic relationship is unsuccessful,

243-406: Is to have Tom Hulce standing by my side." In 1989, he received his second Best Actor Golden Globe Award nomination for a critically acclaimed performance as an intellectually-challenged garbage-collector in the 1988 movie Dominick and Eugene . He played supporting roles in Parenthood (1989), Fearless (1993) and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994). In 1988, he played the title part in

270-806: The Ford Motor Company . As a child, he wanted to be a singer, but he switched to acting after his voice changed in his teenage years. He left home at the age of 15 and attended Interlochen Arts Academy and the North Carolina School of the Arts , leaving a year before finishing his BFA. He graduated with a BA from Beloit College in Wisconsin. Hulce debuted as an actor in 1974, playing opposite Anthony Hopkins in Equus on Broadway and in Los Angeles. Throughout

297-591: The Seattle Center . Founded in 1963, it is led by Artistic Director Dámaso Rodríguez and Managing Director Jeffrey Herrmann. Seattle Rep's first home was the Seattle Playhouse, built as part of the fair grounds for the 1962 Century 21 Exposition , Seattle's 1962 World's Fair . The building, extant as of 2009, was renovated in 1987 as a home for the Intiman Theatre . Actor Hal Holbrook had appeared at

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324-412: The 1960s to her career as a successful art historian more than twenty years later. The play's main themes deal with the changing role of women during this time period, describing both Heidi's ardent feminism during the 1970s and her eventual sense of betrayal during the 1980s. Though most of the characters are women, there are two important male characters; Peter Patrone, a gay pediatrician who

351-652: The British–Dutch movie Shadow Man , directed by the Polish director Piotr Andrejew . In 1990, he was nominated for his first Emmy Award for his performance as the 1960s civil rights activist Michael Schwerner in the 1990 TV-movie Murder in Mississippi . He starred as Joseph Stalin 's projectionist in Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky 's 1991 film The Inner Circle . In 1996, he won an Emmy Award for his role as

378-669: The End of the World , based upon Michael Cunningham 's novel. In 2008, Hulce identified as gay in an interview with Seattle Gay News . In the same interview, he took the opportunity to debunk a rumor he married a woman (supposedly an Italian artist named Cecilia Ermini) and had a daughter named Anya with her: "That information – having a wife and child – is false. In the world of the Internet , there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Misplaced Pages and it doesn't have to be true. I'm comfortable among

405-534: The Playhouse during the fair, and is believed to be the person who suggested it as a home for a repertory theater company. Seattle businessman and arts patron Bagley Wright and others raised money and recruited artistic leadership to found what became Seattle Repertory Theater ("Seattle Rep" or formerly "The Rep"). Stuart Vaughan was the founding artistic director It received the 1990 Regional Theatre Tony Award . The Bagley Wright Theater , named in honor of

432-573: The actor who played opposite them as Scoop: Joan Allen and Peter Friedman (now divorced) and Brooke Adams and Tony Shalhoub . The first major production mounted after Wasserstein's death in January 2006 was at the Berkshire Theatre Festival in August and September 2006, featuring Kate Jennings Grant. On September 30, 2011, produced by The English Theatre of Rome and directed by Gaby Ford,

459-503: The cast were Kevin Tighe and Kate Mulgrew . The Bagley Wright Theater is a city-owned facility. The theater has a proscenium stage and a seating capacity of 678 seats. The stage is approximately 65 feet (20 m) to the last row of the house. The Leo Kreielsheimer Theater ("Leo K.") opened in December 1996 as Seattle Rep's "second stage." The Leo K. was made possible in great part to

486-510: The chemistry between Scoop and Heidi is undeniable, and they become lifelong friends. Heidi realizes that remaining unmarried does not mean she cannot be a mother, and she chooses to adopt a child on her own. The New York Times critic Mel Gussow wrote of the Playwrights Horizon production: "Ms. Wasserstein has always been a clever writer of comedy. This time she has been exceedingly watchful about not settling for easy laughter, and

513-507: The early 1980s, Hulce was chosen over intense competition (including David Bowie , Mikhail Baryshnikov , Mark Hamill , and Kenneth Branagh ) to play the role of Mozart in director Miloš Forman 's film version of Peter Shaffer 's play . In 1985, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, losing to his co-star, F. Murray Abraham . In his acceptance speech, Abraham paid tribute to his co-star, saying, "There's only one thing missing for me tonight, and that

540-536: The loge adds 51 seats, in 2 rows of 27 and 24 seats, respectively. The balcony provides an additional 88 seats, in 3 rows, with 29–30 seats per row; additionally, there are 4 box seats at balcony level. The PONCHO Forum has a capacity of 133 seats and is set up for general admission, with stadium seating . 47°37′26.6″N 122°21′13.11″W  /  47.624056°N 122.3536417°W  / 47.624056; -122.3536417 Tom Hulce Thomas Edward Hulce ( / ˈ h ʊ l s / ; born December 6, 1953)

567-417: The mid-1990s to focus on stage directing and producing. In 2023, Hulce made a brief return to acting by reprising the role of Quasimodo in the live-action/animated short Once Upon a Studio . Among Hulce's major projects are the six-hour, two-evening stage adaptation of John Irving 's The Cider House Rules ; and Talking Heads , a festival of Alan Bennett 's one-man plays that won six Obie Awards ,

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594-653: The play premiered in Italy, at Rome's Teatro dell'Arciliuto near Piazza Navona, to wide acclaim. A revival began Broadway previews on February 23, 2015, at the Music Box Theatre . The cast featured Elisabeth Moss in the title role, Bryce Pinkham as Peter Patrone and Jason Biggs as Scoop Rosenbaum, directed by Pam MacKinnon . The play opened officially on March 19. The production was originally scheduled to play through August 9, 2015 but closed on May 3 due to low ticket sales. The plot follows Heidi Holland from high school in

621-439: The president of Seattle Rep's first board of trustees, opened on October 13, 1983 with the world premiere of Michael Weller 's The Ballad of Soapy Smith , directed by Robert Egan, and featuring a cast of Seattle actors including Dennis Arndt (in the title role), John Aylward , Frank Corrado, Paul Hostetler, Richard Riehle , Michael Santo, Marjorie Nelson , Ted D'Arms, Kurt Beattie, Clayton Corzatte, and William Ontiveros. Also in

648-459: The rest of the 1970s and the early 1980s, he worked primarily as a theater actor, taking occasional parts in movies. His first film role was in the James Dean -influenced film September 30, 1955 in 1977. His next movie role was as freshman student Lawrence "Pinto" Kroger in the classic comedy Animal House (1978). In 1983, he played a gunshot victim in the television show St. Elsewhere . In

675-480: The result is a more penetrating play. This is not to suggest, however, that The Heidi Chronicles is ever lacking in humor." In 1995, the play was adapted as a television film. It was directed by Paul Bogart and starred Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Hulce in the leading roles. Seattle Repertory Theatre Seattle Rep (Seattle Repertory Theatre) is a major regional theater located in Seattle , Washington, at

702-564: Was a Tony Award nominee in 1990. In the mid-1980s, he appeared in two different productions of playwright Larry Kramer 's early AIDS-era drama The Normal Heart . In 1992, he starred in a Shakespeare Theatre Company production of Hamlet . His regional theatre credits include Eastern Standard at the Seattle Repertory Theatre and Nothing Sacred at the Mark Taper Forum , both in 1988. He retired from acting in

729-532: Was by Thomas Lynch, costume design by Jennifer von Mayrhauser and lighting design by Pat Collins . The cast starred Joan Allen as Heidi, Boyd Gaines as Peter, and Peter Friedman as Scoop. Sarah Jessica Parker was featured in three small roles off-Broadway; those roles were played by Cynthia Nixon for the Broadway run. Replacement actors on Broadway included Christine Lahti , Brooke Adams , and Mary McDonnell as Heidi, David Hyde Pierce as Peter, and Tony Shalhoub as Scoop. Two Broadway Heidis married

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