Question:
Describe about the Anthony Rapp for The Legend of World Cinema and Stage Theatre?
Answer:
Anthony Rapp is a legendary actor in the world of cinema and stage theatre started his career with a professional job at the age of nine. But his inborn creativity came out to stage theatre which opens a new journey in his life (Yo'Bills). His debut performance is ‘All My Children’ in 1970 with star ‘Louis Edmonds’ produced by Oliver. His breakthrough performance was expressed in Broadway musical “Rent”. He performed the character of “Mark Cohen” in “Rent” produced and directed by “Jonathan Larson”. He can be heard on the original cast recording (Larson).
Anthony Rapp was born on twenty sixth October in 1971. His birthplace was Joliet in the Illinois located in United States of America. He is a son of Mary Lee (n?e Baird) and Douglas Rapp. His childhood days are painful after the divorce of his parents’. After that, he was under the guidance of her mother who worked as trained nurse in a hospital (Alexander).
Anthony Rapp is basically a stage actor migrating to film and television in later. His performance in stage is awesome with full of enjoyment and his way of acting is ideal to the beginners in stage as well as in film and television and other electronic media (Ciello). His musical journey is very much popular as he has the quality to build up creative base in singing. His musical journey is started in the year of 2000 with the first full length album ‘Look Around’. His adaptation to music is very much successful and it adds a new background in his creative lifestyle (Arat).
Anthony Rapp is an ideal actor and also very much popular in stage performance in theatre for his quality of acting and creativity in writing scripts of theatre shows. He performed many stage shows in his life the all the shows are not only threaten to film critics but very much accepted and achieving a great success in the world of theatre (William Rowe).
Stage performance details
| Name and Production | Year |
| If/Then Broadway, Original Broadway Production | 2014 |
| Without You, West End | 2012 |
| Rent (US Tour) The Broadway Tour (National Tour) | 2009 |
| Some Americans Abroad Off-Broadway | 2008 |
| Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell Off-Broadway | 2007 |
| Rent Broadway, Reunion Concert | 2006 |
| The 24 Hour Plays 2005 Broadway, Special Benefit Production | 2005 |
| Little Shop of Horrors US Tour National Tour | 2004 |
| Private Jokes Public Places Off-Broadway | 2003 |
| You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown Broadway, Broadway Revival | 1999 |
| Rent West End, London Production | 1998 |
| Rent Broadway Broadway Transfer | 1996 |
| Rent Off-Broadway. Original Off-Broadway Production | 1996 |
| Raised in Captivity Off-Broadway | 1995 |
| Trafficking in Broken Hearts Off-Broadway | 1994 |
| Sophistry Off-Broadway | 1993 |
| The Destiny of Me Off-Broadway | 1992 |
| Six Degrees Of Separation Broadway, Original Broadway Production | 1990 |
| Six Degrees of Separation Off-Broadway | 1990 |
| Precious Sons Broadway, Original Broadway Production | 1986 |
| The Little Prince and the Aviator Broadway, Original Broadway Production | 1981 |
Own productions of Anthony Rapp in Stage Theatre
| Name and Production | Year | Details about Script Writing/ Direction |
| Next o Normal Off-Broadway | 2008 | Assistant Director and Script Writing |
| Without You West End | 2012 | Script Writing |
Film and Television Career
| Film/ Television | Name | Character play | Year | Director | Writer/ Creator |
| Film | Dreamland (post-production) | Brad | 2016 | John G. young | John G. young |
| Film | Modern Love (post-production) | Danniel | 2016 | Joshua Tunick | Joshua Tunick |
| Film | Opening Night (post-production) | Logan Joyce | 2014 | Jack Henry Robbins | Ryan Dixon |
| Television Mini-Series | It Could be Worse | Casting Director | 2014 | Wesley Taylor | Mitchel Jarvis, Wesley Taylor |
| Short Film | Grind | Vincent | 2014 | Zachary Halley | Derek Gregor, Zachary Halley |
| Television Series | Psych | Zachary Wallace | Series(2006-2014) | Steve Franks | Steve Franks |
| Television Series | Law and Order: Special Victims Unit | Nathan Forrester | Series( 2004-2012) | Dick Wolf | Dick Wolf |
| Film | Junction | Connor | 2012 | Tony Glazer | Tony Glazer |
| Film | The Other Woman | Simon | 2009 | Don Roos | Ayelet Waldman |
| Film | Scaring The Fish | Gene | 2008 | Todd Douglas Mille | Ben Bettenbender |
| Television Series | Kidnapped | Larry Kellogg | 2006-2007 | Jason Smilovic | Jason Smilovic |
| Film | Danny Roane: First Time Director | Anthony Rapp | 2006 | Andy Dick | Andy Dick |
| Film | Rent | Mark Cohen | 2005 | Chris Columbus | Jonathan Larsan |
| Film | Winter Passing | Dean | 2005 | Adam Rapp | Adam Rapp |
| Film | Open House | Barry Farnsworth | 2004 | Dan Mirvish | Dan Mirvish |
| Short Film | Paradisco | L'ami am?ricain | St?phane Ly-Cuong | St?phane Ly-Cuong | |
| Film | A Beautiful Mind | Bender | 2001 | Ron Howard | Sylvia Nasar |
| Short Film | Cruise Control | Mirror Man | 2001 | Lawrence Ferber | Lawrence Ferber |
| Film | Road Trip | Jacob | 2000 | Todd Phillips | Todd Phillips |
| Film | Man of the Century | Timothy Burns | 1999 | Adam Abraham | Adam Abraham |
| Television Series | The X Files | Jeff Glaser | 1997 | Chris Carter | Chris Carter |
| Film | David Searching | David | 1997 | Leslie L. Smith | Leslie L. Smith |
References
Larson, Jonathan. "Rent (musical)." The Taye Diggs Handbook-Everything you need to know about Taye Diggs (2013): 138.
Alexander, Jason, et al. "External links." The John Lithgow Handbook-Everything you need to know about John Lithgow (2013): 406.
Stewart, Chris, Lisa Rapp-Paglicci, and William Rowe. "The impact of neighborhood factors on mental health and academic outcomes for adolescents participating in the Prodigy Program." Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment 21.4 (2011): 383-397.
Ciello, Treat Williams Daniel, et al. "Prince of the City." The Cynthia Nixon Handbook-Everything you need to know about Cynthia Nixon (2013): 167.
Yo'Bills, Pay. "Rent (musical)." The Aaron Tveit Handbook-Everything you need to know about Aaron Tveit (2013): 95.
Arat, Joanna L. DuPont Theatre. Arcadia Publishing, 2012.
