Broadway's Mandy Patinkin Plays the Van Wezel Tonight
Broadway's master song-man, Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by Paul Ford on piano, brings his critically acclaimed theatre performance to the Van Wezel tonight, April 1, 2014.
Tony and Emmy Award-winner Mandy Patinkin has an extensive list of theatre credits that include Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theater. He won a Tony Award for his 1980 Broadway debut as Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita and was nominated again in 1984 for his starring role as George in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Sunday in the Park with George. In 1991 he returned to Broadway in the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden and in 1997 played a sold-out engagement of his one-man show, Mandy Patinkin in Concert, with all profits benefiting five charitable organizations. In 2009 he celebrated the 20th Anniversary of performing his solo concerts with a two-week run of all of his concerts in rep at New York's Public Theater, the very space he began his concert career.
As well as having huge success in the theatre, Mandy has starred in major television roles, he won a 1995 Emmy Award (as well as a Golden Globe nomination) for his performance in the CBS series Chicago Hope, and recently starred in the CBS series Criminal Minds as FBI profiler Jason Gideon and in the Showtime Original Series Dead Like Me as the reaper Rube Sofer. Mandy returns to TV in the Emmy and Golden Globe Award winning Showtime Original Series Homeland as CIA Division Chief Saul Berenson. In addition to TV, Mandy has had multiple appearances in film, he is well known for his role in the Princess Bride and other film credits including Alien Nation, Yentl and Dick Tracy.
Don't miss Mandy Patinkin the Emmy-winning TV star and Tony-winning Broadway legend in his most electrifying role: concert performer. "Mandy Patinkin is in the business of showstopping," raves The New Yorker. Don't miss this dazzling evening of story and song.
Tickets are priced from $45-$70. For more information, call the Box Office at 941-953-3368 or visit www.VanWezel.org.
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