A Rave Review For Tony Danza

I was on my way to a show last night when a middle-age couple in front of me started talking about Danza's performance in Producers. They had two teenage girls with them, and one of them immediately asked who Tony Danza was.

And I felt about a million years old. (I'm not even 27).

I never got Tony Danza's appeal. He can't act, he can hardly speak, and he's not that good looking. It just showed how desperate the housewives who watched Who's the Boss were during the 80s.

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As has been reported hundreds of time, Lopez WILL NOT be going into the Producers. He can not and will not sing on stage.

He means to tell us that THE PRODUCERS has never been on TKTS?

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of course i knew it was for Leo and I heard a while ago he refused the role but when reading this I wasnt sure if it was a possibility again

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At least Mario Lopez is pretty.

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>> I never got Tony Danza's appeal. He can't act, he can hardly speak, and he's not that good looking.

During his Taxi days, he was considered the "hot" one, which made the set difficult, since the blond guy playing Bobby thought he was supposed to be the pretty one. Danza's been riding that train ever since, even now, when the years havent been especially kind.

But let's be brutally honest here: insofar as "cant act, cant speak, and not that good looking" -- who says we could apply these to Mostel or Lane? Both of them were/ar essentially one-note performers: at times briliiant in that one note, but one note nevertheless. About the only stretch Mostel ever did was performing Ionesco's "Rhinoceros", but it was still Mostel playing Mostel schtick. And Nathan Lane isnt exactly going to be performing King Lear anytime soon.

So please, let's not over-embroider the role. Danza can probably do it as well as anyone else.

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Can't say I love his face, but for a grandfather, he has an amazing body and I wouldn't kick him to the curb anytime soon.

...he really wasnt all that bad.

Well, when I went to see the show, I knew he had received bad reviews. But, I think even his bad reviews were favorable. He was awful. I felt like I was watching a high school performance. (The rest of the cast was great).

"I just recently heard what a Tony Danza is. It's when you're doing a chick and you pull out and smack her in the face with your unit and shout "Who's the Boss?" "

OMG, I started reading that and I couldn't stop laughing. That' so funny.

The only person that I can think of that gave Tony a rave review was Regis Philbin. Regis just thought he was fantastic. I was thinking about seeing him, but when the video came on with him in the show, that section of King Of Broadway that he was singing didn't really sit well with me, as did the scene after Max gets the money from the little old ladies and talks to Bloom, but when he and Roger were singing, I was fine with it.

I think they should've gotten someone else to do this like John O'Hurley, Jon Lovitz, or Jason Alexander(I'm really curious to see him as Max, especially since he did it in LA). I would've loved to have seen Lovitz as Max, he has such a wonderful, strong voice(watch The Critic to hear it especially the episode "Roger and Ebert and Alice and Jay".

Packed? Certainly not. I'm going tomorrow night and expecting the theater to be only half full. I will report back.