Background
Crivello, Anthony was born on August 2, 1955 in Milwaukee. Son of Vincent J. and Josephine (Mussomeli) Crivello.
Crivello, Anthony was born on August 2, 1955 in Milwaukee. Son of Vincent J. and Josephine (Mussomeli) Crivello.
He graduated from Saint Thomas More High School (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) in 1973 and was inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame in 1995.
He has written several scripts and more than twenty songs. Personal life In the Milwaukee area, he appeared in productions at Sunset Playhouse directed by Alan Furlan. His first Broadway role was as a replacement in the original production of Evita in 1983.
He starred in the soap opera One Life to Live as mobster Johnny Dee Hesser, son and heir to upstate Pennsylvania mob boss Carlo Hesser from 1990-1991. In 1999, he played opposite Audra McDonald in Michael John LaChiusa's musical. Drama Critics Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in the musical at the Pasadena Playhouse.
In August 2005, he appeared at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, California in a workshop production of Zhivago, a musicalization of the Boris Pasternak novel by Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon. He was one of two actors rotating in the title role in the Las Vegas production of The Phantom of the Opera, but as of Summer 2008, he is the sole actor playing the Phantom. He starred in Clifford Odets' Golden Boy at the Belasco Theatre in New York City produced by Lincoln Center Theater.
He starred in Heathers in New York at New World Stages. The show closed on August 4, 2014. He had a small acting role in the Seinfeld ninth season episode "The Maid" in 1998, in which he played Maxwell, the owner of a cleaning service called Maid to Order-- a name that he tells Jerry (whom he initially calls "Steinfeld") is "a pun".
The character of Maxwell and the manner in which he operates his Maid to Order business is comically portrayed by Crivello as a juxtaposition of a pimp operating a prostitution business (calling himself an "independent contractor" and refusing to handle money because of "tax purposes", for example).
He then appeared in the musical The News and Les Misérables before achieving prominence as Valentin in the Kander and Ebb musical Kiss of the Spider Woman in 1993, for which he won a Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Musical. Two years later, he received an LA Ovation Award nomination, a Garland Award, a Robby Award nomination, and an L.A.
