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Felitta wrote the libretto for "Buddy's Tavern", a musical version of his film "Two Family House". The musical won the prestigious Richard Rodgers Award which is given annually through the American Academy of Arts and Letters. It 2010 it received a production at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's
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Felitta directed "Madoff", a four-hour mini-series for ABC television based on the rise and fall of the notorious financier Bernard L. Madoff. The film starred Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner. De Felitta was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial
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Felitta directed "Rob The Mob", which starred Michael Pitt, Nina Arianda, Andy Garcia and Ray Romano. It marked De Felitta's second collaboration with Garcia, who had starred in and co-produced "City Island".
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Musical Workshop. Later that year it had a limited run at the Hudson Guild Theater in New York City. In 2012 it received a workshop production at The York Theater Company, in New York City.
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