Mario Fratti

Mario Fratti
Mario Fratti (1927-2023) was an internationally acclaimed playwright and drama critic. Born in Italy in 1927, he moved to NYC at the prompting of Lee Strasberg, who saw his play Suicide at the 1962 Spoleto Festival. Fratti’s nearly 70 plays have received some 600 productions in two dozen countries and have been translated into many languages.
His works include The Cage, The Return, The Academy, Mafia and The Bridge. He is best known for his collaboration with Maury Yeston and for his adaptation of Fellini’s film 8½, which they developed into the musical Nine. Its original production in 1982 won the O’Neill Award, the Richard Rodgers Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, eight Drama Desk Awards and five Tony Awards. In its 2003 revival, Nine won three Outer Critics Circle Awards and two Tony Awards. In 2000, Fratti was a recipient of the Otto Award for Political Theater.
In addition to his writing achievements, he served as New York drama critic for nine European newspapers and was a professor emeritus of Italian literature at Hunter College. His archives are housed at the Italian Cultural Institute in NYC.
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Nine (Ensemble Version)
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Full-Length Musical, DramaNine (Ensemble Version)
Arthur Kopit , Maury Yeston , Mario Fratti
Full-Length Musical, Drama / 16w, 1m, 1boy(s)
This new flexible-casting version of the Tony Award-winning musical – a sterling stage adaptation of Fellini's 8½ – has an updated score and can be performed by a smaller cast.
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Nine
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Musical, DramaNine
Arthur Kopit , Maury Yeston , Mario Fratti
Full-Length Musical, Drama / 22w, 1m, 4boy(s)
The spectacular musical adaptation of Fellini's 8½ features one man and the dozens of women in his life. Celebrated but impetuous film director Guido Contini, succumbing to the pressures of filming his latest film epic, suffers a midlife crisis. One by one, women from his past and present – including his mother, his wife, his mistress, and his leading lady – haunt, instruct, scold, seduce and encourage him until he finally learns to grow up.
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Nine (Ensemble Version)
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Full-Length Musical, DramaNine (Ensemble Version)
Arthur Kopit , Maury Yeston , Mario Fratti
Full-Length Musical, Drama / 16w, 1m, 1boy(s)
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Nine
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Musical, DramaNine
Arthur Kopit , Maury Yeston , Mario Fratti
Full-Length Musical, Drama / 22w, 1m, 4boy(s)
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