Nikki Blonsky Has Another Movie And An Album On The Way!
Nikki gets back to her roots as a former Cold Stone employee.
As much as I enjoyed her in Hairspray, I'm so happy to know Nikki Blonsky won't always be known as Tracy Turnblad.
Although that was definitely the Great Neck, Long Island native's breakout role (and she's been nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance), she already has new work beyond Hairspray on her agenda. And she's only 18!
Supposedly, Nikki will begin filming for a new movie as soon as Hairspray promotions are done. Wow - when did she even have time to audition? Also, this role won't involve any singing or dancing, so it does look she's saying goodbye to Tracy, at least for now.
But that voice couldn't go to waste forever - Nikki said she also has an album coming out and still hopes to do Broadway someday since that's always been her dream.
Good morning, New York!
WOW! Are they doing Golden Globe nominations in July now?
I think not.
Posted by: Buddy | July 25, 2007 at 02:33 PM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CONTACT:
Morgit Management
Elmont, New York
(646) 472-7946
morgitmanagement@morgitmanagement.com
http://morgitmanagement.com/
SAGA OF THE CINDERELLA STORIES
Elmont, New York, July 2nd, 2007. In a recent New York Magazine interview, Hairspray star Nikki Blonsky finally gave credit to the firm that helped land her a coveted role, her first professional role ever: Morgit Management. However, she was essentially forced to do so by an article in the New York Post that exposed a pattern of half-truths about how she got the part. With the film scheduled for release in July, it was no doubt good public relations to clear the air on this lest a scandal derail the film. Alas, there is much, much more to the story.
A June 2006 press release from Morgit Management stated, “Cinderella stories do happen in real life”. They proved it by landing one of their clients, Nikki Blonsky, a lead role, with no professional credits, in the feature film “Hairspray”. Margaret Karaszek owner of Morgit Management and partner Michael Ostrowski stated: “June 6th, 2006 was a great day for Miss Blonsky, her family and for us as well. We were all on needles and pins waiting for that one important call that would say Nikki will be the one playing the role of Tracy Turnblad.”
That call did in fact come, from the casting director, David Rubin. Mr. Rubin left a long voice message on Morgit Management’s phone. His first words were “If you guys haven’t heard yet or you are not already at Cold Stone Creamery, then I want to be the first to congratulate both of you on a job well done. You both deserve it”. Margaret Karaszek called David Rubin back just to confirm it. Michael immediately called Nikki on her cell phone at Cold Stone Creamery, and after a few minutes of waiting, she answered and said, “We did it Mike”.
That was the last time Ostrowski talked to Ms. Blonsky. Six days later Morgit was notified by the Blonsky’s attorney that they were terminated. That, according to Morgit is when the SAGA OF THE CINDERELLA STORIES started. With each interview being more and more bizarre as to how Ms. Blonsky landed the role of Tracy, all on her own, and various other versions, none mentioning Morgit.
Morgit received endless phone calls from friends as well as clients. The question was always the same, “Why don’t you do something to set the record straight? The truth has to be told.”
Morgit knew it was time to speak up. Being terminated without being paid a nickel is one thing; not being given credit for the all hard work that Morgit did raised the stakes. The Hairspray casting process was a long and hard one—unlike the scenario described by Ms. Blonsky in her recent interview in New York Magazine: “it all happened super-super-super-fast”. The truth is it took six grueling months from the time that Ostrowski’s nephew and recent Dartmouth grad Michael Amico informed Morgit in December of 2005 that a film version of Hairspray was in the works by New Line Cinema.
Morgit immediately got in touch with New Line and spoke to Tyler Gillett and told Mr. Gillett “We have your Tracy”! Morgit also called the Blonskys and advised them that a picture and resume will not cut it. They have to hear Nikki’s voice in order to seal the deal. So the now famous tape was created by Morgit along with the help and expertise of Michael Meehan. Mr. Meehan had in the past worked with Morgit and Ms. Blonsky, putting together videos for projects that Morgit thought Ms. Blonsky was right for. The bottom line is, Nikki never went to an open call for Hairspray. The only open call Ms. Blonsky ever attended, happened a few months after meeting with Morgit back in 2002, and that was for a show called “Most Talented Kids”.
The final outrage came after the cast of Hairspray appeared on the Oprah show along with the casting director, David Rubin. Mr. Rubin’s recollection as to how Nikki was discovered through an “open call process” was amazing to say the least. Ms. Karaszek noted, what was really disturbing was that this was the same casting director she dealt with over a 5 and ½ month period with numerous e-mails and phone calls back and forth throughout the Hairspray casting process.
The fact is that Nikki Blonsky was seen via Morgit Management’s tape by New Line and the director at least two and a half weeks before the second girl auditioned in Atlanta at an open call. This second girl in Atlanta was the start of the so-called “world wide search.”
Morgit had arranged several auditions for Nikki over the years and numerous efforts were made to get a representative from the William Morris Agency to go to Miss Blonsky’s plays. Only after she landed the role of Tracy, did William Morris pay attention and sign her on. We did more than any agent would ever do. In fact we were so hands-on that Ms. Blonsky was driven to nearly every audition by Ostrowski, who picked her up at her home in Great Neck, LI, accompanied by Nikki’s mother Karen, Margaret Karaszek and sometimes Nikki’s younger brother Joey. They were never paid a cent for any of the work they did on Ms. Blonsky’s behalf. They never received an apology from Miss Blonsky or anyone involved with Hairspray who knew the truth. They have, however, received many nasty letters from attorneys for Blonsky and New Line threatening them with all sorts of lawsuits including for defamation of all things. But which side suffered through the embarrassment of a New York Time's correction? As ET used to say—Ouch!
Ms. Karaszek said, “When I was 9, my grandmother sat me down and said: ‘listen carefully to a few words of wisdom: try to do the right thing throughout your life, keep in mind that everybody has karma, the more good one does the better the karma and vice- versa.’”
Here’s the great irony. Hairspray is a movie about the underdog making it big against long odds and it’s about justice. There has been an obvious attempt to mirror Nikki Blonksy’s path to stardom with her Hairspray character Tracy Turnblad’s similar rise in the movie. The unfortunate victim of this brilliant public relations feat is the real underdog, the under-underdog, Morgit Management.
Now that’s BAD KARMA!
Links:
http://nymag.com/guides/summer/2007/33976/
http://www.topix.net/forum/food/ice-cream/T4FVCDBBE2G9P7MOT
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06172007/business/honing_the_knives_business_.htm?page=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/arts/20alscorr-003.html?ex=1183176000&en=67bf0a7eac02252b&ei=5070
http://www.wnymradio.com/?p=40
-END-
Posted by: Rose | July 31, 2007 at 01:17 AM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CONTACT:
Morgit Management
Elmont, New York
(646) 472-7946
morgitmanagement@morgitmanagement.com
http://morgitmanagement.com/
SAGA OF THE CINDERELLA STORIES
Elmont, New York, July 2nd, 2007. In a recent New York Magazine interview, Hairspray star Nikki Blonsky finally gave credit to the firm that helped land her a coveted role, her first professional role ever: Morgit Management. However, she was essentially forced to do so by an article in the New York Post that exposed a pattern of half-truths about how she got the part. With the film scheduled for release in July, it was no doubt good public relations to clear the air on this lest a scandal derail the film. Alas, there is much, much more to the story.
A June 2006 press release from Morgit Management stated, “Cinderella stories do happen in real life”. They proved it by landing one of their clients, Nikki Blonsky, a lead role, with no professional credits, in the feature film “Hairspray”. Margaret Karaszek owner of Morgit Management and partner Michael Ostrowski stated: “June 6th, 2006 was a great day for Miss Blonsky, her family and for us as well. We were all on needles and pins waiting for that one important call that would say Nikki will be the one playing the role of Tracy Turnblad.”
That call did in fact come, from the casting director, David Rubin. Mr. Rubin left a long voice message on Morgit Management’s phone. His first words were “If you guys haven’t heard yet or you are not already at Cold Stone Creamery, then I want to be the first to congratulate both of you on a job well done. You both deserve it”. Margaret Karaszek called David Rubin back just to confirm it. Michael immediately called Nikki on her cell phone at Cold Stone Creamery, and after a few minutes of waiting, she answered and said, “We did it Mike”.
That was the last time Ostrowski talked to Ms. Blonsky. Six days later Morgit was notified by the Blonsky’s attorney that they were terminated. That, according to Morgit is when the SAGA OF THE CINDERELLA STORIES started. With each interview being more and more bizarre as to how Ms. Blonsky landed the role of Tracy, all on her own, and various other versions, none mentioning Morgit.
Morgit received endless phone calls from friends as well as clients. The question was always the same, “Why don’t you do something to set the record straight? The truth has to be told.”
Morgit knew it was time to speak up. Being terminated without being paid a nickel is one thing; not being given credit for the all hard work that Morgit did raised the stakes. The Hairspray casting process was a long and hard one—unlike the scenario described by Ms. Blonsky in her recent interview in New York Magazine: “it all happened super-super-super-fast”. The truth is it took six grueling months from the time that Ostrowski’s nephew and recent Dartmouth grad Michael Amico informed Morgit in December of 2005 that a film version of Hairspray was in the works by New Line Cinema.
Morgit immediately got in touch with New Line and spoke to Tyler Gillett and told Mr. Gillett “We have your Tracy”! Morgit also called the Blonskys and advised them that a picture and resume will not cut it. They have to hear Nikki’s voice in order to seal the deal. So the now famous tape was created by Morgit along with the help and expertise of Michael Meehan. Mr. Meehan had in the past worked with Morgit and Ms. Blonsky, putting together videos for projects that Morgit thought Ms. Blonsky was right for. The bottom line is, Nikki never went to an open call for Hairspray. The only open call Ms. Blonsky ever attended, happened a few months after meeting with Morgit back in 2002, and that was for a show called “Most Talented Kids”.
The final outrage came after the cast of Hairspray appeared on the Oprah show along with the casting director, David Rubin. Mr. Rubin’s recollection as to how Nikki was discovered through an “open call process” was amazing to say the least. Ms. Karaszek noted, what was really disturbing was that this was the same casting director she dealt with over a 5 and ½ month period with numerous e-mails and phone calls back and forth throughout the Hairspray casting process.
The fact is that Nikki Blonsky was seen via Morgit Management’s tape by New Line and the director at least two and a half weeks before the second girl auditioned in Atlanta at an open call. This second girl in Atlanta was the start of the so-called “world wide search.”
Morgit had arranged several auditions for Nikki over the years and numerous efforts were made to get a representative from the William Morris Agency to go to Miss Blonsky’s plays. Only after she landed the role of Tracy, did William Morris pay attention and sign her on. We did more than any agent would ever do. In fact we were so hands-on that Ms. Blonsky was driven to nearly every audition by Ostrowski, who picked her up at her home in Great Neck, LI, accompanied by Nikki’s mother Karen, Margaret Karaszek and sometimes Nikki’s younger brother Joey. They were never paid a cent for any of the work they did on Ms. Blonsky’s behalf. They never received an apology from Miss Blonsky or anyone involved with Hairspray who knew the truth. They have, however, received many nasty letters from attorneys for Blonsky and New Line threatening them with all sorts of lawsuits including for defamation of all things. But which side suffered through the embarrassment of a New York Time's correction? As ET used to say—Ouch!
Ms. Karaszek said, “When I was 9, my grandmother sat me down and said: ‘listen carefully to a few words of wisdom: try to do the right thing throughout your life, keep in mind that everybody has karma, the more good one does the better the karma and vice- versa.’”
Here’s the great irony. Hairspray is a movie about the underdog making it big against long odds and it’s about justice. There has been an obvious attempt to mirror Nikki Blonksy’s path to stardom with her Hairspray character Tracy Turnblad’s similar rise in the movie. The unfortunate victim of this brilliant public relations feat is the real underdog, the under-underdog, Morgit Management.
Now that’s BAD KARMA!
Links:
http://nymag.com/guides/summer/2007/33976/
http://www.topix.net/forum/food/ice-cream/T4FVCDBBE2G9P7MOT
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06172007/business/honing_the_knives_business_.htm?page=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/arts/20alscorr-003.html?ex=1183176000&en=67bf0a7eac02252b&ei=5070
http://www.wnymradio.com/?p=40
-END-
Posted by: Rose | July 31, 2007 at 01:17 AM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CONTACT:
Morgit Management
Elmont, New York
(646) 472-7946
morgitmanagement@morgitmanagement.com
http://morgitmanagement.com/
SAGA OF THE CINDERELLA STORIES
Elmont, New York, July 2nd, 2007. In a recent New York Magazine interview, Hairspray star Nikki Blonsky finally gave credit to the firm that helped land her a coveted role, her first professional role ever: Morgit Management. However, she was essentially forced to do so by an article in the New York Post that exposed a pattern of half-truths about how she got the part. With the film scheduled for release in July, it was no doubt good public relations to clear the air on this lest a scandal derail the film. Alas, there is much, much more to the story.
A June 2006 press release from Morgit Management stated, “Cinderella stories do happen in real life”. They proved it by landing one of their clients, Nikki Blonsky, a lead role, with no professional credits, in the feature film “Hairspray”. Margaret Karaszek owner of Morgit Management and partner Michael Ostrowski stated: “June 6th, 2006 was a great day for Miss Blonsky, her family and for us as well. We were all on needles and pins waiting for that one important call that would say Nikki will be the one playing the role of Tracy Turnblad.”
That call did in fact come, from the casting director, David Rubin. Mr. Rubin left a long voice message on Morgit Management’s phone. His first words were “If you guys haven’t heard yet or you are not already at Cold Stone Creamery, then I want to be the first to congratulate both of you on a job well done. You both deserve it”. Margaret Karaszek called David Rubin back just to confirm it. Michael immediately called Nikki on her cell phone at Cold Stone Creamery, and after a few minutes of waiting, she answered and said, “We did it Mike”.
That was the last time Ostrowski talked to Ms. Blonsky. Six days later Morgit was notified by the Blonsky’s attorney that they were terminated. That, according to Morgit is when the SAGA OF THE CINDERELLA STORIES started. With each interview being more and more bizarre as to how Ms. Blonsky landed the role of Tracy, all on her own, and various other versions, none mentioning Morgit.
Morgit received endless phone calls from friends as well as clients. The question was always the same, “Why don’t you do something to set the record straight? The truth has to be told.”
Morgit knew it was time to speak up. Being terminated without being paid a nickel is one thing; not being given credit for the all hard work that Morgit did raised the stakes. The Hairspray casting process was a long and hard one—unlike the scenario described by Ms. Blonsky in her recent interview in New York Magazine: “it all happened super-super-super-fast”. The truth is it took six grueling months from the time that Ostrowski’s nephew and recent Dartmouth grad Michael Amico informed Morgit in December of 2005 that a film version of Hairspray was in the works by New Line Cinema.
Morgit immediately got in touch with New Line and spoke to Tyler Gillett and told Mr. Gillett “We have your Tracy”! Morgit also called the Blonskys and advised them that a picture and resume will not cut it. They have to hear Nikki’s voice in order to seal the deal. So the now famous tape was created by Morgit along with the help and expertise of Michael Meehan. Mr. Meehan had in the past worked with Morgit and Ms. Blonsky, putting together videos for projects that Morgit thought Ms. Blonsky was right for. The bottom line is, Nikki never went to an open call for Hairspray. The only open call Ms. Blonsky ever attended, happened a few months after meeting with Morgit back in 2002, and that was for a show called “Most Talented Kids”.
The final outrage came after the cast of Hairspray appeared on the Oprah show along with the casting director, David Rubin. Mr. Rubin’s recollection as to how Nikki was discovered through an “open call process” was amazing to say the least. Ms. Karaszek noted, what was really disturbing was that this was the same casting director she dealt with over a 5 and ½ month period with numerous e-mails and phone calls back and forth throughout the Hairspray casting process.
The fact is that Nikki Blonsky was seen via Morgit Management’s tape by New Line and the director at least two and a half weeks before the second girl auditioned in Atlanta at an open call. This second girl in Atlanta was the start of the so-called “world wide search.”
Morgit had arranged several auditions for Nikki over the years and numerous efforts were made to get a representative from the William Morris Agency to go to Miss Blonsky’s plays. Only after she landed the role of Tracy, did William Morris pay attention and sign her on. We did more than any agent would ever do. In fact we were so hands-on that Ms. Blonsky was driven to nearly every audition by Ostrowski, who picked her up at her home in Great Neck, LI, accompanied by Nikki’s mother Karen, Margaret Karaszek and sometimes Nikki’s younger brother Joey. They were never paid a cent for any of the work they did on Ms. Blonsky’s behalf. They never received an apology from Miss Blonsky or anyone involved with Hairspray who knew the truth. They have, however, received many nasty letters from attorneys for Blonsky and New Line threatening them with all sorts of lawsuits including for defamation of all things. But which side suffered through the embarrassment of a New York Time's correction? As ET used to say—Ouch!
Ms. Karaszek said, “When I was 9, my grandmother sat me down and said: ‘listen carefully to a few words of wisdom: try to do the right thing throughout your life, keep in mind that everybody has karma, the more good one does the better the karma and vice- versa.’”
Here’s the great irony. Hairspray is a movie about the underdog making it big against long odds and it’s about justice. There has been an obvious attempt to mirror Nikki Blonksy’s path to stardom with her Hairspray character Tracy Turnblad’s similar rise in the movie. The unfortunate victim of this brilliant public relations feat is the real underdog, the under-underdog, Morgit Management.
Now that’s BAD KARMA!
Links:
http://nymag.com/guides/summer/2007/33976/
http://www.topix.net/forum/food/ice-cream/T4FVCDBBE2G9P7MOT
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06172007/business/honing_the_knives_business_.htm?page=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/arts/20alscorr-003.html?ex=1183176000&en=67bf0a7eac02252b&ei=5070
http://www.wnymradio.com/?p=40
-END-
Posted by: Rose | July 31, 2007 at 01:18 AM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CONTACT:
Morgit Management
Elmont, New York
(646) 472-7946
morgitmanagement@morgitmanagement.com
http://morgitmanagement.com/
SAGA OF THE CINDERELLA STORIES
Elmont, New York, July 2nd, 2007. In a recent New York Magazine interview, Hairspray star Nikki Blonsky finally gave credit to the firm that helped land her a coveted role, her first professional role ever: Morgit Management. However, she was essentially forced to do so by an article in the New York Post that exposed a pattern of half-truths about how she got the part. With the film scheduled for release in July, it was no doubt good public relations to clear the air on this lest a scandal derail the film. Alas, there is much, much more to the story.
A June 2006 press release from Morgit Management stated, “Cinderella stories do happen in real life”. They proved it by landing one of their clients, Nikki Blonsky, a lead role, with no professional credits, in the feature film “Hairspray”. Margaret Karaszek owner of Morgit Management and partner Michael Ostrowski stated: “June 6th, 2006 was a great day for Miss Blonsky, her family and for us as well. We were all on needles and pins waiting for that one important call that would say Nikki will be the one playing the role of Tracy Turnblad.”
That call did in fact come, from the casting director, David Rubin. Mr. Rubin left a long voice message on Morgit Management’s phone. His first words were “If you guys haven’t heard yet or you are not already at Cold Stone Creamery, then I want to be the first to congratulate both of you on a job well done. You both deserve it”. Margaret Karaszek called David Rubin back just to confirm it. Michael immediately called Nikki on her cell phone at Cold Stone Creamery, and after a few minutes of waiting, she answered and said, “We did it Mike”.
That was the last time Ostrowski talked to Ms. Blonsky. Six days later Morgit was notified by the Blonsky’s attorney that they were terminated. That, according to Morgit is when the SAGA OF THE CINDERELLA STORIES started. With each interview being more and more bizarre as to how Ms. Blonsky landed the role of Tracy, all on her own, and various other versions, none mentioning Morgit.
Morgit received endless phone calls from friends as well as clients. The question was always the same, “Why don’t you do something to set the record straight? The truth has to be told.”
Morgit knew it was time to speak up. Being terminated without being paid a nickel is one thing; not being given credit for the all hard work that Morgit did raised the stakes. The Hairspray casting process was a long and hard one—unlike the scenario described by Ms. Blonsky in her recent interview in New York Magazine: “it all happened super-super-super-fast”. The truth is it took six grueling months from the time that Ostrowski’s nephew and recent Dartmouth grad Michael Amico informed Morgit in December of 2005 that a film version of Hairspray was in the works by New Line Cinema.
Morgit immediately got in touch with New Line and spoke to Tyler Gillett and told Mr. Gillett “We have your Tracy”! Morgit also called the Blonskys and advised them that a picture and resume will not cut it. They have to hear Nikki’s voice in order to seal the deal. So the now famous tape was created by Morgit along with the help and expertise of Michael Meehan. Mr. Meehan had in the past worked with Morgit and Ms. Blonsky, putting together videos for projects that Morgit thought Ms. Blonsky was right for. The bottom line is, Nikki never went to an open call for Hairspray. The only open call Ms. Blonsky ever attended, happened a few months after meeting with Morgit back in 2002, and that was for a show called “Most Talented Kids”.
The final outrage came after the cast of Hairspray appeared on the Oprah show along with the casting director, David Rubin. Mr. Rubin’s recollection as to how Nikki was discovered through an “open call process” was amazing to say the least. Ms. Karaszek noted, what was really disturbing was that this was the same casting director she dealt with over a 5 and ½ month period with numerous e-mails and phone calls back and forth throughout the Hairspray casting process.
The fact is that Nikki Blonsky was seen via Morgit Management’s tape by New Line and the director at least two and a half weeks before the second girl auditioned in Atlanta at an open call. This second girl in Atlanta was the start of the so-called “world wide search.”
Morgit had arranged several auditions for Nikki over the years and numerous efforts were made to get a representative from the William Morris Agency to go to Miss Blonsky’s plays. Only after she landed the role of Tracy, did William Morris pay attention and sign her on. We did more than any agent would ever do. In fact we were so hands-on that Ms. Blonsky was driven to nearly every audition by Ostrowski, who picked her up at her home in Great Neck, LI, accompanied by Nikki’s mother Karen, Margaret Karaszek and sometimes Nikki’s younger brother Joey. They were never paid a cent for any of the work they did on Ms. Blonsky’s behalf. They never received an apology from Miss Blonsky or anyone involved with Hairspray who knew the truth. They have, however, received many nasty letters from attorneys for Blonsky and New Line threatening them with all sorts of lawsuits including for defamation of all things. But which side suffered through the embarrassment of a New York Time's correction? As ET used to say—Ouch!
Ms. Karaszek said, “When I was 9, my grandmother sat me down and said: ‘listen carefully to a few words of wisdom: try to do the right thing throughout your life, keep in mind that everybody has karma, the more good one does the better the karma and vice- versa.’”
Here’s the great irony. Hairspray is a movie about the underdog making it big against long odds and it’s about justice. There has been an obvious attempt to mirror Nikki Blonksy’s path to stardom with her Hairspray character Tracy Turnblad’s similar rise in the movie. The unfortunate victim of this brilliant public relations feat is the real underdog, the under-underdog, Morgit Management.
Now that’s BAD KARMA!
Links:
http://nymag.com/guides/summer/2007/33976/
http://www.topix.net/forum/food/ice-cream/T4FVCDBBE2G9P7MOT
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06172007/business/honing_the_knives_business_.htm?page=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/arts/20alscorr-003.html?ex=1183176000&en=67bf0a7eac02252b&ei=5070
http://www.wnymradio.com/?p=40
-END-
Posted by: Rose | July 31, 2007 at 01:18 AM