Actor Michael Paternostro enjoys his dual characters’ journeys in movie-turned-musical
Cast members for Moonlight Stage Productions’ “Tootsie,” from left, Michael Paternostro, Steve Glaudini, Elizabeth Adabale, Summer Broyhill, Chris Hunter and Eileen Bowman. In David Yazbek and Robert Horn’s 2018 stage-musical adaptation of “Tootsie,” just as in the 1982 Oscar-winning film starring Dustin Hoffman, Michael Dorsey-turned-Dorothy Michaels doesn’t hesitate to speak “her” mind, whether it comes to getting acting jobs or getting respect as a woman.
Paternostro is drawing from both the film character of Michael Dorsey — an out-of-work male actor who disguises himself as a woman to land the female role of Dorothy in a soap opera — and the Michael Dorsey conceived by Horn and Yazbek, a less accomplished actor who ultimately auditions for the part of the Nurse in a stage-musical sequel to “Romeo and Juliet.”
Glaudini is Moonlight’s producing artistic director. Paternostro says the two of them have known each other since the days when they worked together at Musical Theatre West in Long Beach. “’Tootsie” was something Steve and I used to laugh and laugh about,” Paternostro recalled.
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