The best new play trophy at Sunday’s Tony Awards went to “Purpose,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drawing-room drama about an ...

known as Tony Lip, who was portrayed by Viggo Mortensen ... on a 1962 tour of the segregated Deep South by Black pianist Don Shirley and the elder Vallelonga, who was Shirley’s driver and ...

Oscar-winning film Green Book centres around a bouncer called Tony Lip who's tasked with driving the pianist, Don Shirley, around the Jim Crow South in the early 1960s. Since Shirley was regularly ...

“These guys help each other,” Farrelly said. “Tony Lip gets Don Shirley out of some earthly problems, but Don Shirley saves Tony Lip’s soul.” Disney + declined to release “Song of the ...

But while many already have a cursory knowledge of Freddie Mercury's life, and can maybe point out the erroneousness of Bohemian Rhapsody, Green Book's subject, pianist Don Shirley, is a lesser ...

The story was based on the real-life, unlikely friendship between Tony “Lip” Vallelonga, an Italian-American bouncer from the Bronx, and renowned African-American piano virtuoso Don Shirley ...

The story of Tony Lip and Don Shirley is not a wildly original one. It’s an odd-couple road trip about how we’re all not so different, after all. No wheels are being reinvented here ...

The Oscar-winning film “Green Book” tells the real-life story of two men, Don Shirley and Tony “Lip” Vallelonga, who get to know one another in the 1960s. Shirley (Mahershala Ali ...

The civil rights drama follows black pianist Don Shirley, who is joined by his racist, white driver Tony Lip on a journey through the Jim Crow Deep South. While Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen ...

The film depicts black piano prodigy Don Shirley’s evolving friendship with Italian driver Tony “Lip” Vallelonga during a 1962 tour of the Jim Crow-era deep south. When it won the Best ...

is set in 1962 and is based on the real-life story of white bouncer Tony “Lip” Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen) and black concert pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) and their trip to the Jim ...

Oscar winner Nick Vallelonga says he had a reason for not consulting the late Dr. Don ... of Shirley — the real-life African-American pianist, who recruited Italian-American Tony Lip (Vallelonga ...