Background
Fratti was born on July 5, 1927 in L'Aquila, Italy; the son of Leone and Palmira (Silvi) Fratti. He came to the United States in 1963 and naturalized in 1974.
Mario Fratti and Liliane Montevecchi
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Adaptation from the Italian by Mario Fratti Musical / 1m, 22f, 4 boys (or 10 m, 13 f, 4 boys) / Unit set This spectacular winner of the 1982 Tony Award for Best Musical delighted Broadway theatergoers in a hit revival in 2003 starring Antonio Banderas. Based on Fellini's classic film 8 1/2, Nine is the story of a celebrated film director Guido Contini and his attempts to come up with a plot for his next film as he is pursued by hordes of beautiful women, all clamoring to be loved by him and him alone. Flashbacks reveal the substance of his life-which will become the material for his next film: a musical version of the Casanova story. "A rich and thrilling night of theatre." -N.Y. Post "A galloping fantasy [with a] ravishingly inventive and tuneful score." -N.Y. Times "Has been impressively reborn...Yeston's score comes across with extraordinary power." -N.Y. Daily News
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Fratti was born on July 5, 1927 in L'Aquila, Italy; the son of Leone and Palmira (Silvi) Fratti. He came to the United States in 1963 and naturalized in 1974.
Fratti received a Doctor of Philosophy in Foreign Languages and Literature from Ca' Foscari University of Venice in 1951.
Fratti began working as a playwright and his first radio drama was "The Tape" in 1959. Mario`s first comedies represented in Italy were "La Gabbia", "La partita", "Il ponte" and "L’amico cinese". But he became more successful after the opera "Suicidio", which was shown at the Spoleto Festival in 1962. Since 1963 he has lived in New York. Parallel to the work as a playwright he began to teach at the Columbia University and then at Hunter College.
Fratti is known as the author of the musical "Nine", a play written in 1981 based on the film 8½ by Federico Fellini. Also he is the author of such works for theater as "Suicide", "The Cage", "The Return", "The Academy", "Mafia", "Races" and "The Bridge". Mario is a professor emeritus of Italian literature at Hunter College and serves as New York drama critic for nine European newspapers.
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Fratti is a member of Drama Desk, American Theatre Critics and Outer Critics Circle.
Quotes from others about the person
"Fratti is clearly a remarkable playwright. His comedies crackle with a type of dialogue that indicates him as a writer for the stage." - Emerson Beauchamp
"Mario Fratti, in his work as a playwright, is constantly evolving and he 'picks', universalizes and carries in the present the themes that inspire his work. Fratti reaches a surprising fusion of classicism and modernity because, not to mention the vast and rich experiences of theatrical culture, find new formulas and always thinking to the realization of the opera he will write tomorrow." - Enrique Guitart
"Mario Fratti has elements of a new trend. Yes, he is a Pirandello of our time. But he has something else; an underground voltage. He is a doctor of the light, an investigator of darkness. He has deeply investigated in the psychosis of life after the war, making cuts in the living fabric of our consciousness. His characters are alive with the need of demons and angels". - Owen Dodson
Mario Fratti was married to Lina Fedrigo, with whom he divorced in 1963. They have 2 children - Mirko and Barbara. On September 22, 1964 he married Laura Dubman. They have a daughter, Valentina.