Writer: Chazz Palminteri
Director: Jerry Zaks
Synopsis: Palminteri brings 18 characters to life, depicting a rough childhood on Bronx streets populated by a cast of friends and enemies.
NEW YORK TIMES:
"He (Palminteri) exudes a moment-to-moment engagement that suggests that this revival is not a lazy ego trip but a rejuvenating act of faith in the complementary powers of acting and storytelling."
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS:
"The play does end up feeling like an elaborate pitch for a movie that has already been made."
NEW YORK POST:
"Onstage, Palminteri not only plays himself as a 9-year-old kid but has to have conversations with himself - a task that could have made Laurence Olivier shiver in his timbers. And Palminteri, if you'll excuse the expression, ain't no Laurence Olivier......Palminteri is more a journeyman actor who has painted himself into a virtuoso corner. After a rather stilted start, he warms to the task, though some of his characters still seem more credible than others. "
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NEWSDAY:
"A walk down memory lane of what was already a walk down memory lane.....At best, this is a placeholder at the Kerr, booked for a spring opening of "A Catered Affair," "
STAR-LEDGER:
""A Bronx Tale" is merely a warmed-up pile of meatballs dished out by a tired server."
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NEW YORK SUN:
"Engaging stories told crisply and engagingly are nothing to sneeze at. This may be a thrice-told "Tale" by now, but you know what they say about the third time."
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BLOOMBERG:
"'A Bronx Tale' is by now a thrice-told one, seen off-Broadway in 1989, in a subsequent movie version and now on Broadway at the Walter Kerr. Yet Chazz Palminteri's solo performance as Cologio, Sonny and 16 other characters in a memory play of childhood and youth remains remarkably gripping. "
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VARIETY:
"It's mildly entertaining and impressively acted but never quite takes the leap from nostalgia to evocative narrative."
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