Vegas called Tony Crivello and The Sicilians. Mr. Crivello has also moonlighted as a ring announcer & commentator for ESPN2's Kickboxing Championships, and owns stock with the NFL's Green Bay Packers. He has written several pieces for stage and screen. Theater Between bookings for commercial modeling, Crivello finally got his “Equity Card” in Milwaukee’s Melody Top Theatre in their production of “Bye-Bye Birdie” staring as Conrad Birdie opposite Lucy Arnaz and Michael Callan at the age of 19. It was there after a performance he met Lucy’s mother famed actress/comedian Lucille Ball who advised him “It’s time for the little ‘Birdie’ to leave the nest!” He broke into the Chicago Theatre scene in 1979, originating the role of "Felix 'The Filth Fiend' Linder" in the original cast of John R. Powers' Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? at Chicago's Forum Theater opposite a young Brad Hall, Chloe Webb and Megan Mullally. Shortly thereafter, he was cast in the 2nd National Touring company of Evita by director theatre icon Harold Prince in 1980, receiving glowing reviews for his performance as “Che". Subsequently at Mr. Prince’s request, he made his Broadway debut as a replacement for Mandy Patinkin in the original Broadway production of Evita in 1981, taking over the starring role of "Che" for which he received critical praise. After completing his “Evita” run, he appeared Off-Broadway in Wendy Kesselman's The Juniper Tree as well as The Lincoln Center production of Shakespeare's Measure For Measure directed by Mark Lamos. He then appeared in the musical The News starring as "the Killer”, first in Jupiter, Florida receiving a Carbonelle Award for “Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor.” He performed that same role at Westport Country Playhouse, and then on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theater. He was an original Broadway cast member of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg's Les Misérables for directors Trevor Nunn and John Caird and producer Cameron Mackintosh, first as Grantaire, and ten months later taking over the leading role of Javert. (He would later play Grantaire once again in a special tenth-anniversary concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London in the “The Dream Cast/10th Anniversary Production of Les Miserables in Concert. He continued his prominence in leading roles on Broadway as "Valentin" in the Kander and Ebb Terrence McNally musical Kiss of the Spider Woman in 1993 directed by the incomparable Harold Prince. For his performance,