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Joe Bonelli
Sometimes credited as: Joseph Hastings
Vocal Range: Baritone · Height: 5' 8 1/2" · Weight: 170 · Hair Color: Brown · Eye Color: Hazel · Training: American Musical & Dramatic Academy, NY- 1965 · Hometown: Vicksburg, MS · Born: 7/23/1943 · High School: St. Joe, Jxn, MS · College: Univ. Southern MS · Occupation: Pt-tm Classical Music Radio Announcer
Joe Bonelli (aka Joseph Hastings) is an actor/singer and radio announcer-- a Vicksburg, Mississippi native who has participated in theatre, some film and radio for over fifty years.
Joe has returned (as Joe Hastings) to WWNO 89.9 -6--10PM weekday evenings and, occasionally, 7AM-3PM weekends. Joe presents studio-originated classical music from ...Read More
Joe Bonelli (aka Joseph Hastings) is an actor/singer and radio announcer-- a Vicksburg, Mississippi native who has participated in theatre, some film and radio for over fifty years.
Joe has returned (as Joe Hastings) to WWNO 89.9 -6--10PM weekday evenings and, occasionally, 7AM-3PM weekends. Joe presents studio-originated classical music from 7:30-10PM weekday nights and, occasionally, 11AM-12:30PM Saturdays and 10AM-1PM Sundays.
Bio continues below theatrical credits--
Partial theatrical credits:
Professional Experience: Stage:
A Visit with Tennessee-- Tennessee Williams (one man show)-
T Williams Tribute-- Columbus, Ms. Sept 2003,04,05
T Williams Festival, Clarksdale, Ms. (Oct. 2005)
Natchez, Ms. Literary Festival w/ Nat. Little Theatre (Feb. 2006)
Sal Mineo’s Fortune & Men’s Eyes Mona, Queenie (understudy), Catsolino, Prisoner -- also, Sound, asst. Stage Manager, Director of Understudies):
New York (off-Bway) & Los Angeles productions 1968-70
New Orleans Opera Chorus (1984-85)-- Carmen, La Traviata,
La Boheme, Lucia di Lammermoor
Extensive work in Professional (Regional & Dinner Th), College, and Community Theatre for over 50 years:
Some Roles:
VIEUX CARRE (by Tenn Williams)-- Nightingale-- (old Theatre Marigny on Frenchmen St. NOLA)
ANNIE-- FDR, Bum, Bert Healy Radio Star-- (Vicksburg T.G.)
BLACK COMEDY--Harold-- Bayou Dinner Theatre, NOLA_
THE BOY FRIEND- Lord Brockhurst-- Bayou Dinner Theatre, NOLA
DIAL M FOR MURDER-- Tony (Vicksburg TG) & Lesgate (Din.Th. NOLA)-
ANDROCLES & THE LION -- Emperor (USM Theatre)
FANTASTICKS-- El Gallo (Vicksburg Alternative Theatre)
ALL THE WAY HOME-- Joel Lynch-- (USM Theatre)
BLITHE SPIRIT-- Dr. Bradman (Bayou DT NOLA-- 1st production)
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS-- the Mayor, the Senator;
& the Farmer with the Chicken in the bag! (Toulouse Theatre NOLA)
HELLO MUDDAH, HELLO FADDAH -- Barry Bockman (Vicksburg TG)
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM -- Bottom (Vicksburg TG)
GOLD IN THE HILLS (Vicksburg TG--Guiness World’s Longest Running Melodrama- since 1936)-- Happy the Waiter, Prologue, Slick Steve, Derelict
OUR TOWN-- Newsboy Joe Crowell (debut- age 10 Vicksburg TG)
THE ROBE-- Caligula (Vicksburg TG)
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR-- Pilate (Delgado Theatre NOLA)
Many more
Joe Bonelli (Hastings) has performed in New Orleans in musical and non-musical theatre and film-- mostly in the 1980s and early '90s. Through NOLA's Young Audiences, Joe toured southeastern Louisiana schools in the musical, LAFITTE'S LOUISIANA, in the late '80s and early '90s- portraying Governor Claiborne, a Pirate, and various period Scoundrels!
Earlier Joe did the New York/LA scene several times, eventually working as actor, assistant stage manager and in casting, in the Los Angeles and New York (off-Broadway) notorious Sal Mineo productions of the prison drama "Fortune and Men's Eyes" in 1969-1970. In L.A., Joe both cast and directed understudies for that Mineo production and appeared in a leading role during a portion of the run.
After far too many stints in Mississippi restaurants , Joe returned to theatre in New Orleans in the mid-1980s, performing with the New Orleans Opera Chorus and in dinner and other theatre and part-timing as a classical music announcer on WWNO. In 1991 he again returned to Mississipi where he bartended in casinos, performed in community theatre, co-ran a tourist attraction "The Vanishing Glory," and re-entered the world of public radio full-time.
From 1998-2005 Joe Bonelli was a classical music announcer/producer for Mississippi Public Broadcasting (formerly PRM), where he hosted the program VOICES, featuring excerpts from opera and musical theatre and musical bios of such luminaries as Richard Rodgers, Leonard Bernstein and Mississippi-born true-diva Leontyne Price.
In recent years Joe has theatrically concentrated on one-man show activity, portraying playwright Tennessee Williams both in a reduced edition of Ray Stricklyn's CONFESSIONS OF A NIGHTINGALE (which he hopes to perform complete one day) and in his own script, A VISIT WITH TENNESSEE.
With a stroke of brilliant timing, Joe "retired" from MPB and returned to New Orleans just a few months before Katrina. After refugee-ing south, north, east and west--from Louisiana to Texas to Florida and Mississippi-- Joe is back (mid-2007) in the Crescent City and hopes to re-enter the world of New Orleans live theatre soon!!!
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