![]() She is so excited to have the opportunity to work with these astounding artists once again! Skye dedicates her performance, as always, to her father, Don LaFontaine. The group’s second production, Introductions, was so well received that it will be encored in December at the Skylight Theater. Her first production, Rent Unplugged, was a startling success. After numerous community theater productions and studying acting at the prestigious CalArts in Valencia, California, Skye took some time off to start her own theater company with her sister. ![]() Skye is a Los Angeles-based actress who is so excited about her debut at the Matrix Theatre. Daniel recently moved back to Los Angeles where he has appeared in commercials, films, and a web series or two. Daniel is also a co-founder of The Sonoma Valley Shakespeare Company in CA. Daniel has acted with theater companies across the country including The American Shakespeare Center, The Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Theater for the New City in NYC, The Classical Theater Lab, The Visceral Company in Los Angeles, and many more. Born and raised in Hollywood, Daniel attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and graduated from the Guthrie Theater/University of Minnesota BFA Actor Training Program. Some film and television credits include The Marc Pease Experience, Elsewhere, Bob Roberts, ER, Seinfeld, and That 70′s Show, among others. She is a member of the Antaeus Company where she has appeared in You Can’t Take It with You, The Autumn Garden, and Noel Coward’s Tonight at 8:30. In LA, she has worked on many stages including Evidence Room, Actors’ Gang, Rogue Machine, Boston Court, LATC, and East West Players. She has performed regionally at South Coast Rep, Laguna Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, Trinity Rep, Indiana Rep, The Public Theatre in NY, and Actors’ Theatre of Louisville. Prior to that she appeared in Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play at the Odyssey Theatre in which she played Queen Elizabeth 1st, Adolph Hitler, and Ronald Reagan. Shannon is very happy to reprise her role and be reunited with this company after a wonderful run at the Malibu Playhouse this past spring. Hoffman is an active part of the Commercial, Animation and Voiceover community, and can currently be seen in a spot… covered in potato salad. ![]() Local faves: Noël Coward’s The Vortex at Malibu Playhouse, Nick Salamone’s critically acclaimed The Sonneteer at LA Gay & Lesbian Center, I Love Lucy Live at Greenway Court, Merry Wives and Twelfth Night (directed by Armin Shimerman) for CTL and WEHO Shakespeare in the Parks, Amy in Company at West Coast Ensemble Proud member and Casting Coordinator at Rogue Machine Theatre Recent TV includes The Client List and CSI:NY. For a more accurate slant on Houdini's life, see the 1976 TV movie The Great Houdinis, starring Paul Michael Glaser and Sally Struthers.* ( Helen Saville) ( Associate Producer) is deliciously excited to be clinking cocktails again with this magical cast and the effervescent Gene Franklin Smith! Regional highlights: A Christmas Carol at Kodak Theatre with Christopher Lloyd & John Goodman, Charley Bacon with Tony Plana at South Coast Repertory, Tartuffe and Crimes of the Heart at Kansas City Rep. Example: In real life, Houdini's appendix was fatally ruptured by a punch to the stomach in the film, he injures himself by accidentally bumping into one of his props, the sword-studded "Temple of Benares" trick-which hadn't yet been invented in 1926! Still, it's fun to watch Tony Curtis wriggle his way out of some of Houdini's most baffling escape routines (both Curtis and Janet Leigh were carefully instructed on the set by professional magicians, who swore the stars to secrecy concerning the tricks of the trade). The facts of Houdini's life seldom get in the way of Yordan's story while general audiences won't spot too many discrepancies, professional magicians tend to howl with laughter at some of the film's intentional boners. Philip Yordan's script (based on a book by Harold Kellock) suggests that virtually every portentous occasion in Houdini's life occurred on Halloween day, including his death from peritonitis in 1926. The film follows Houdini's progress from sideshow entertainer to high-priced prestidigitator, and also touches upon his fascination with the occult-and his efforts to expose phony mediums. Tony Curtis at the time, co-stars as Houdini's wife Bess, while Angela Clarke is seen as Houdini's mother. This highly fanciful but immensely entertaining biopic stars Tony Curtis as legendary magician/escape-artist Harry Houdini.
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