Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
presents

Chazz Palminteri in A BRONX TALE

Written by and featuring Chazz Palminteri

Press Representative: Michelle Tabnick Communications

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College
Campus Road at Nostrand Avenue
http://www.brooklyncenter.org


Chazz Palminteri’s A BRONX TALE was first told as a one man show in Los Angeles prior to hitting the silver screen and becoming a major motion picture, which put Mr. Palminteri on the map. He has returned to the original format, delivering a one-man show about his colorful childhood in the Bronx. It is an engrossing tale full of quirky characters like Eddie Mush, Frankie Coffeecake, Tony Toupee, JoJo the Whale, Jimmy Ten-to-Two and Rudy Ice, among others.

Mr. Palminteri becomes all these characters, taking on their idiosyncrasies in how he walks, slouches, hulks, contorts his face, while employing a variety of accents. It’s a coming-of-age story of an adolescent boy who witnesses something that changes his life forever. A much revered and feared gangster, named Sonny, and Chazz’s father are his main influences, and he seems to have adopted the best of both - over time.

When nine-year-old Chazz does not rat him out in a police line up, after witnessing a murder, mob boss Sonny takes him under his wing. Against his father’s wishes, Sonny becomes a second father figure to him, instilling some good lessons along with the bad.

Chazz tells his story in a lively 90-minute show that takes you from his stoop in Brooklyn in the 1960s to his teenage years in the 70s. Vividly, he brings to life the characters, place, story, music and culture of the times. Unfortunately, it played for one show only at Brooklyn College. Perhaps he will return soon and tell his tale at a venue in the Bronx, maybe near 187th and Belmont!

- Gloria Talamas -