"The character I play has two father figures, his actual father and a mob boss named Sonny," Barreiro said. “So, all the music and dialogue having those '60s touches, with live orchestration, that really ties the production together and makes it seem that much more authentic.”īarreiro describes the show as "a combination of 'Jersey Boys' and 'West Side Story,' " with a sentimental message promoting self-exploration. “Alan and Chazz are so good about writing in a way that completely encompasses the world that the play resides in,” Barreiro said. With music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Glenn Slater, choreography by Sergio Trujillo, and co-direction by Robert De Niro and Jerry Zaks, “A Bronx Tale” is a story about loyalty, ambition, love and, above all else, family.Īccording to Joey Barreiro, who plays the teenager at the center of the musical, the authenticity of both the score and book is why the show connects with audiences on such a deep level. This streetwise musical, which opened on Broadway in 2016, takes you to the stoops of the Bronx in the 1960s, where a young man is caught between the father he loves and the mob boss he’d love to be. “The one-man show is different from the movie and the movie is different from the musical, but it’s all the same story, just told in a different way.” “Each version is different,” Palminteri said. Palminteri returned to his signature story in 2007 to do a one-man show on Broadway and then began the process of turning “A Bronx Tale” into a Broadway musical. “Two weeks after saying no (to another offer), Bob De Niro walks into the theater, saw the show and, as they say, the rest is history,” he said of the 1993 film in which De Niro made his directorial debut and Palminteri portrayed the mobster. I had $200 in the bank, and I walked away from a million dollars,” he recalls. “People wanted to make a movie out of it, but nobody would let me write it or star in it. The show was successful, and Palminteri was approached about selling the rights to his story - but not on his terms. “A Bronx Tale” was based on a killing he had witnessed at age 9 and the tug-of-war relationship he felt between his hard-working father and a neighborhood mobster. It took Palminteri 10 months to piece together a 90-minute, one-man, off-Broadway show. “I figured if nobody would give me a part, I’d just write my own,” he said.
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