After a long wait, CityDance Ensemble Rehearsal Director Christopher K. Morgan finally gets to see his face on the silver screen. In December of 2003, Morgan was cast as a dancer in John Turturro’s film Romance & Cigarettes. After filming in 2004, the movie faced some setbacks and became what the Associated Press referred to as “the luckless orphan of corporate shuffling.”

More than two years after its original release date, Romance & Cigarettes is receiving rave reviews, and according to The New York Times, things are looking up for the musical comedy after its long struggle to be seen.

Morgan couldn’t be happier. The dancer, who splits his time between D.C. and New York, worked on four scenes for the movie and can be seen on film in two of them. He said he has received tremendous support from friends and colleagues in the D.C. area, many of whom have organized “watching parties” to go see the film.

The movie is not short on big name stars — James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, and Christopher Walken are only a few of the recognizable faces in the film. In one of the scenes that Morgan appears in, he dances a short duet with Winslet, playing Gandolfini’s mistriss, in a a fire-filled fantasy sequence.