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Also in the cast were Michael Sheen as Mozart, Cindy Katz as Constanze and David McCallum as Joseph II. The play was revived in 1999 at the Music Box Theatre, New York City, directed again by Peter Hall and ran for 173 performances (DecemвЂ“ May 14, 2000), receiving Tony Award nominations for Best Revival and Best Actor in a Play (David Suchet, who played Salieri). Performed at the Wells Theatre in Norfolk, the drama was directed by Charles Towers. Also playing Constanze were Amy Irving, Suzanne Lederer, Michele Farr, Caris Corfman and Maureen Moore.ДЄdam Redfield and Terry Finn appeared as Mozart and Constanze, respectively, in the 1984 Virginia Stage Company production. Curry was replaced by Peter Firth, Peter Crook, Dennis Boutsikaris, John Pankow, Mark Hamill, and John Thomas Waite. During the run of the play McKellen was replaced by John Wood, Frank Langella, David Dukes, David Birney, John Horton, and Daniel Davis. It ran for 1,181 performances and was nominated for seven Tony Awards (best actor for both McKellen and Curry, best director for Peter Hall, best play, best costume design, lighting, and set design for John Bury), of which it won five (including a best actor Tony for McKellen). The play premiered on Broadway in 1980 with Ian McKellen as Salieri, Tim Curry as Mozart and Jane Seymour as Constanze. It was later transferred in modified form to the West End, starring Frank Finlay as Salieri. Notable ProductionsДЄmadeusВ was first presented at the Royal National Theatre, London in 1979, directed by Sir Peter Hall and starring Paul Scofield as Salieri, Simon Callow as Mozart, and Felicity Kendal as Constanze. Cairns also rejects the вЂњromantic legendвЂќ that Mozart always wrote out perfect manuscripts of works already completely composed in his head, citing major and prolonged revisions to several manuscripts (see: MozartвЂ™s compositional method). Writer David Cairns called AmadeusВ вЂњmyth-mongeringвЂќ and argued against ShafferвЂ™s alleged portrait of Mozart as вЂњtwo contradictory beings, sublime artist and foolвЂќ, positing instead that Mozart was вЂњfundamentally well-integratedвЂќ. As an example, Salieri later tutored MozartвЂ™s son Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart in music. While historically there may have been actual rivalry between Mozart and Salieri, there is also evidence that they enjoyed a relationship marked by mutual respect. Documentary evidence suggests that there was some antipathy between the two men, but the idea that Salieri was the instigator of MozartвЂ™s demise is not given academic credence.

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Shaffer used artistic license in his portrayals of both Mozart and Salieri. Background and Production Factual Accuracy The premieres of MozartвЂ™s operas The Abduction from the Seraglio, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute are each the setting for key scenes of the play. Significant use is made of the music of Mozart, Salieri and other composers of the period. Shaffer then adapted Amadeus for a film released in 1984. It was inspired by Mozart and Salieri, a short play by Aleksandr Pushkin which was later adapted into an opera of the same name by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, both the play and the opera were written during the 19th century. It is based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, highly fictionalized.ДЄmadeus was first performed in 1979.

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