Six years later, Peter and the Starcatcher received nine Tony Award nominations and then came away from the 2012 Tony Awards with five of those awards.Įlice’s success in such a short time period seems staggering. In fact, his first venture into writing a book with Marshall Brickman for the musical Jersey Boys garnered him a Tony Award for best musical in 2006. He is now a two-time Tony Award-winning playwright and book writer. From actor to advertising copy writer to choreographer and finally to playwright, he has had his hand in every stage of producing a successful theatre production. While he has sometimes referred to his success as luck, Elice has earned his place in the limelight. Whatever the causes, Elice, who was born November 17, 1956, is currently one of the theatre world’s bright stars as the playwright for Peter and the Starcatcher (2004) and the book writer for the musicals Jersey Boys and The Addams Family. Maybe it was both: destiny and environment. With such an early love of theatre, maybe he was destined to make it his life, maybe it was the encouragement he got from his parents to read, go to theatre and interact with the arts. Rick Elice started attending the theatre when he was just three years old and his mother took him to see My Fair Lady.
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