Richard Hornos, with one of his Tony Awards.
The evening at Radio City Music Hall in the heart of Manhattan had many smiling faces. The 75th delivery of the Press Tony It was a party, and among the winners was an Argentine: Riccardo Corno.
And this Agency, Stephen Sondheim’s musical, which won the statuette for the best revival of a musical, meant a new award for this Argentinian. Fourth. And with that, Hornos completes the poker where a producer Broadwaywith the Tony Awards.
“There are four Tony categories for the production, this was the one I was missing,” he happily says from his Manhattan home. She had already won the Tony for Best Original Text The Curious Midnight Dog Incident (2015), for the best revival of a drama (Angels in Americain 2018) and Best Original Musical (city of Hadesin 2019).
“Unless from now on I do not win in directing or in the artistic field, and for this there is still a long way to go and it is fantasy, if I manage to win another statuette it will be to duplicate one that I already own”, he summarizes.
Chris Harper and Catherine Schreiber, producers of “Company” together with Argentines Ricardo Hornos and Valentina Berger, thanked. Photo by Reuters
What is the most satisfying thing about this award?
-The best thing about this award is that it means a posthumous recognition of Stephen Sondheim and what it means for musical theater. It’s actually a bit bittersweet because, had it not been for the pandemic and the disruption it caused, he might have enjoyed one last prize in life.
– Did any other “Company” awards make you happy?
-Yes, I also find it very gratifying that this particular staging was chosen, among other things because I have great admiration and years of friendship with the producers and director of the show, the incomparable Marianne Elliot. She won her third Tony (in fact the precedents obtained by the British were for battle horse Y The Curious Midnight Dog Incident).
At Tonys 2019, on stage after the consecration of “hadestown”. Hornos is the first on the left. Clarin photographic archive
Patti LuPone, who won her third Tony Award as a Supporting Actress for Agencyand had already won in 1978 for Best Actress in a Musical for avoidand in 2008 for the role of Rose in a revival of the musical Gypsy: a musical fairy tale, thanked the two cast, one from London’s West End and one from the Broadway production. “It was very nice to thank everyone who collaborated on the work, because when you crossed the Atlantic, there were changes.”
-What was held?
-The creative team and Patti as a co-star. The show won the Olivier Award in 2019 in London and is now repeated here with a different cast, but with the same creative scaffolding. You might remember LuPone’s famous outburst when a spectator in the audience, not many weeks ago, didn’t have a mask in the room, and she yelled at him to put it on. The man didn’t flinch and told her that after all he was paying her salary, with her ticket, and she said “No, Chris Harper” pays me, one of the producers of the opera, along with her ovens.
Other tributes to Sondheim
And it provides a fact about Sondheim, the great Broadway composer and lyricist who died on November 26 last year. “You must have seen the tribute to the ceremony. And Bernadette Peters singing a song by in the wood, The children will listen. Well, it has just been announced that this musical will return to the stage, at the St. James Theater, after having held a semi-stage concert three weeks ago, and seeing the success, come back.
“En la mira”, the film with Nicolás Francella directed by Hornos.
Hornos has it all in 2022, because in addition to being a theatrical producer, he made his debut as a director.
“Already on a more personal level, this culminates a semester that could not have been better from an artistic point of view. Starting with the success of mothers in Mar del Plata and Buenos Aires, and then the first and the beautiful tour of in the viewfinder in theaters, we must now complete its upcoming release on HBO Max. The truth is, it’s hard to ask for more from this 2022. Ah, sorry, I’d ask one thing for November and December: for Messi to win his World Cup.
– So what do you plan for the second semester?
-For the second half of the year, in addition to accompanying the film in international festivals, I have several projects at an advanced stage of development (at least half with Valentina Berger. I speak both of theater and cinema .. And maybe a series. with the wind in my favor, maybe I can allow myself the pleasure of directing another feature film in 2023.
Paul O. Scholz
Source: Clarin
