Best Actor - Academy Award Winner!

F. Murray Abraham in person with a screening of Amadeus

Tickets include a special 85th birthday celebratory screening of Amadeus, plus a conversation with legendary producer Julian Schlossberg, followed by a gala reception with live music

In addition to F. Murray Abraham's legendary performance in Amadeus, for which he was honored with the Academy Award for Best Actor, his more than 80 film roles have ranged from The Ritz, Scarface, The Name of the Rose, Finding Forrester, Inside Llewyn Davis, and The Grand Budapest Hotel to his two-time Emmy Award nominated role as a regular cast member in Showtime’s Homeland.  His most recent starring role was in the second season of HBO’s The White Lotus, for which he received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.

A veteran of the stage in over 90 plays, F. Murray Abraham’s theatrical triumphs include his Broadway debut in The Man in the Glass Booth, directed by Harold Pinter; his Obie winning performance in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya; as Pozzo in Mike Nichol’s Waiting for Godot; and as Roy Cohn in the first Broadway production of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America.  In addition, his mellifluous voice is familiar to all as the narrator of over 32 episodes of the PBS Nature series.

Acting with unabated energy, F. Murray Abraham is currently rehearsing his starring role opposite Kristen Chenoweth for the upcoming 2025 Broadway musical play, The Queen of Versailles.

FILM: AMADEUS:

F. Murray Abraham has gone down in film history for his unforgettable, tour-de-force performance as Antonio Salieri in Milos Forman’s cinematic masterpiece, the 1984 film Amadeus. Playing both a haughty, younger Salieri and the aged artist beset with decrepitude, F. Murray Abraham took on the complex role of the supposedly envious composer bitter with God for having granted true musical genius to an unlikely and buffoonish Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – played to hilarious effect by the clownishly bewigged Tom Hulce. Amadeus was shot on location in Prague with sweeping cinematic effect, filled with an array of Mozart’s most transporting music - some performed within the County Nostitz Theatre where Don Giovanni and La clemenza di Tito debuted two centuries earlier. Along with choreography by Twyla Tharp, Amadeus also stars Simon Callow, Christine Ebersole, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice, Jeffrey Jones and Charles Kay (with Cynthia Nixon in early appearance). F. Murray Abraham’s prestigious Oscar honor took center place in a film that also won seven more, including the Academy’s other supreme awards: Best Director and Best Picture. (Dir. Milos Forman, 1984, 162 min.)

GUEST INTERVIEWER:

Veteran motion picture, Broadway, television and music producer Julian Schlossberg, among many other accomplishments, has been the producer’s representative for Dustin Hoffman, Elia Kazan, John Cassavetes, George C. Scott, Elaine May and Robert Duvall. He is also an acclaimed interviewer of hundreds of celebrities, ranging from Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Joan Baez, Angela Lansbury, Norman Lear and Clint Eastwood to William F. Buckley, Tom Brokaw, Noam Chomsky, President George Bush, Deepak Chopra, Gore Vidal, Henry Kissinger and Archbishop Tutu. He is also one of F. Murray Abraham’s closest friends.

Date and Time: Monday, April 7, 2025 at 7 PM

Location: Cinema Arts Center, 423 Park Avenue, Huntington, NY 11743

Tickets: $60 Members | $75 Public

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