Banderas May Star in New Broadway Musical Don Juan DeMarco

By: Oct. 19, 2005
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Antonio Banderas, who earned a Tony Award nomination for his Broadway debut in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Nine, may be headed for the Great White Way once again. The actor has said that he's planning to return to the stage next year in a new musical based on the 1995 film Don Juan DeMarco.

"The plan is to make it with David Leveaux, the same director of Nine. We are trying to use the Michael Kamen music. And Bryan Adams did some music. For David I would go to Hell if he asked me. We had a beautiful experience doing Nine and it is something I would like to repeat," the star stated while promoting The Legend of Zorro, the sequel to his 1998 hit The Mask of Zorro. Kamen and Adams (as well as Robert John Lange) won an ASCAP Award and were nominated for an Oscar for Don Juan DeMarco's song "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman."

According to Banderas, a film version of Nine is also a possibility; the star would be interesting in reprising his stage performance.

Don Juan DeMarco would star Banderas as the psychiatric patient who believes that he is the legendary ladies' man created by Lord Byron; in the film version, Johnny Depp played "Don Juan." Directed by and with a screenplay by Jeremy Leven, the movie also featured Marlon Brando as Dr. Jack Mickler, who treats the would-be Don Juan for his delusions, and who finds his own approach to life changed in the process. Don Juan DeMarco also starred Faye Dunaway as Marilyn Mickler.

Although Nine marks Banderas' only Broadway appearance to date, he appeared as Che in the film version of Evita and was also in the running to play the title role in the film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera (before it went to Gerard Butler). A film star in his native Spain before coming to America, he has acted in such films as Desperado, Original Sin, Femme Fatate, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Frida, Shrek 2, and the Spy Kids movies, as well as in the HBO film "And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself."


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