Video5 A Bronx Tale Cast Members Recall Their Broadway DebutsThe musical continues to play Broadway's Longacre Theatre.
By
Andrew Gans
March 20, 2018
Five cast members from the musical A Bronx Tale, currently playing the Longacre Theatre, discuss making their Broadway debuts in the video above.
Watch Bradley Gibson, Levi Smith, Lucia Giannetta, Hudson Loverro, and Adam Kaplan recall their whereabouts when they received the news that they had been cast in a Broadway show, the first person they told, and their first time walking onto a Broadway stage.
The Broadway company is currently led by Kaplan as Calogero, Giannetta as Rosina, Tony nominee Joe Barbara as Sonny, Christiani Pitts as Jane, Richard H. Blake as Lorenzo, Gibson as Tyrone, and Loverro and Smith, who share the part of Young Calogero.
A Bronx Tale has a book by Oscar nominee Chazz Palminteri, music by Oscar, Grammy, and Tony winner Alan Menken, and lyrics by Grammy winner and Oscar and Tony nominee Glenn Slater. It is co-directed by Robert De Niro and Jerry Zaks, with choreography by Sergio Trujillo.
The choreographer behind A Bronx Tale,On Your Feet!, Memphis, and Jersey Boys talks about creating two distinct dance vocabularies for the new musical based on the Chazz Palminteri classic.