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Anthony Ramos to Star as Mozart in Broadway Revival of Peter Shaffer’s Play “Amadeus”

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Anthony Ramos is taking on a classical music legend…

The 31-year-old Puerto Rican actor/singer and In the Heights, has revealed that he’s signed on to star as Mozart in a Broadway revival of Peter Shaffer’s 1979 play Amadeus.

Anthony Ramos“I am excited about going back to Broadway,” said Ramos, who’ll soon appear on the big screen in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, on the WTF With Marc Maron podcast. “I signed on to do Amadeus on Broadway, to play Mozart.” The actor said the production is still looking to cast the Salieri role.

No additional details were shared about the production.

Amadeus is a non-musical and fictionalized account of the lives of composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri.

First performed in 1979 in London, a subsequent Broadway production, starring Tim Curry as Mozart and Ian McKellen as Salieri, won the 1981 Tony Award for Best Play.

Shaffer then adapted his play for the 1984 film starring F. Murray Abraham (in an Oscar-winning performance) as Salieri and Tom Hulce as Mozart.

The play was most recently revived on Broadway in 1999 in a production starring Michael Sheen as Mozart and David Suchet as Salieri.

The Orchestral Maneuvers of Mexican Child Prodigy Daniela Liebman

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This isn’t a case Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing… Daniela Liebman, a gifted and talents fourth grader, is already making something —her musical dreams a reality…

The 9-year-old Mexican pianist made her solo debut over the weekend with the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra in western Mexico to help kick-off the orchestra’s season.

Daniela Liebman

Liebman, who has performed in the U.S., Spain and Italy, played pieces by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and other classical composers during her appearance in her home state of Jalisco.

“I love to play because you can make people feel things that you can’t make them feel with words,” Daniela told Efe after signing autographs and posing for photos with fans on Sunday night.

The philharmonic phenom, who has performed with the orchestra at the Teatro Degollado in Guadalajara, comes from a family of talented musicians. And, the child prodigy started playing the piano at the age of 3 and turned professional at the age of 6, according to her teacher, composer and conductor Anatoly Zatin.

Despite her incredible talent and performance schedule, Liebman is like most girls her age. The 4th grader attends school from Monday to Wednesday, does chores, plays video games and surfs the Internet.

The rest of the week, though, she spends time in Colima, where her teacher serves as director of the Instituto Universitario de Bellas Artes.

Liebman spends about three to four hours a day at the keys, putting in “a pretty intense session,” Zatin said.

And her hard work has paid off! She’s performed at the Varallo International Piano Festival in Milan, Italy, the Elan Piano Festival in Texas and in numerous concerts in various Mexican states.

“It hasn’t been hard because you can’t get nervous about doing something that you like to do,” says Daniela, who won Madrid’s Noche music contest last year.