Rosie O'Donnell and Danny Aiello Heading Back to Broadway

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 7:13am

From Broadway.com:

"Rosie O'Donnell is looking to team up with Danny Aiello in Folding the Monster, a new Broadway play by Alexander Dinelaris. The drama involves an Italian woman and her father residing in Washington Heights and is expected to bow on the Great White Way in the fall of 2005.

'I love the script,' O'Donnell told Broadway.com. 'My early dreams as an actress were to play daughter to Danny Aiello and Gene Hackman, but Danny is more like me--he's from New York, he's big... he's the father you dream of.' O'Donnell said she reacted to the script emotionally from the first reading. 'Everyone has father issues,' she pointed out. 'Including me.'

A developmental reading of Folding the Monster was presented at the Variety Arts Theatre in 2004 starring Aiello, Polly Draper, Joe Cortese, Lori Wilner, Sal Tuzzolo and Bill Fairbairm under the auspices of Shotgun Producers, Inc."

WOW. This sounds very interesting. This is definitely a part unlike anything I have seen Rosie play and I would love to see her tackle it because I have a feeling she would be extremely good at this. Danny's also a great talent. This could very well turn out to be quite good.

The link to the article is below.
Danny Aiello and Rosie O'Donnell Look to B'way Team-Up in Monster

[Corine2]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 7:35am

He is a great guy. Sad Tim Acito is not involved.
We need more musicals.

[EddieVarley]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 7:55am

Great match-up, I'd love to see them both in a powerful drama.

[OrdinaryJukebox1]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 9:38am

My mother's father used to be an assistant to Danny Aiello, many years ago...I met him once...he thinks he's bigger than he really is...but okay...

-Vincent

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 12:19am

I think that's awesome. While some critizize her for basically always playing herself...but she's REALLY GOOD at playing herself. Besides, maybe she's a better actor that we've seen yet.
Look at Julia Roberts...she basically always plays herself and she's still making movies.

<----admired Rosie since she was a little kid.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 12:27am

Yay!