KENTUCKY JUNE 2017

Tony Danza's Letterz 2 2Pac: an Evening with Tony Danza

Press Contact:
Steven Benaquist
323-842-1217
[email protected]

TONY DANZA’S LETTERZ 2 2PAC: AN EVENING WITH TONY DANZA is a unique one-man show created and performed by Steven Benaquist (Dreamworks ‘Fishstick & Honeybear’, NPR’s ‘American Parlor Songbook, The Meltdown w/ Jonah & Kumail) and directed by Joe Wagner (UCB’s ‘Midnight Show’, HBO’s ‘Brody Stevens: Enjoy It!’). LETTERZ made its world premiere at the Hollywood Fringe Festival where it won the Producers Encore! Award and enjoyed packed houses in its extended run.

Tony Danza has been a lot of things in his life: Professional boxer, sitcom star, tap dancer, talk show host, high school teacher. He was also penpal to 2Pac Shakur, writing the rapper when he was in prison. Though the two did not know each other, Shakur wrote back, and a correspondence developed. Now only Mr. Danza knows the contents of those letters, but LETTERZ 2 2PAC tries to imagine what they might have contained… and what it would look like if Tony Danza himself put on a one-man show about it.

WARNING: There is tapdancing.

When:
Thu. June 29, 2017 at 7:30pm

Where: The Bard’s Town
1801 Bardstown Rd, Louisville, KY 40205

Listen to NPR interview with Steve on KPCC’S “Off Ramp”:
http://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/2016/06/10/49622/hollywood-fringe-tony-danza-s-prison-pen-pal-was-t/

Our reviews:
http://stageraw.com/2016/06/09/tony-danzas-letters-to-tupac-an-evening-with-tony-danza-theater-review/
“achieves dizzy comic levitation”
“an excellent, pixilated portrayal of Danza”- Gray Palmer, Stage Raw

http://seeitorskipitla.tumblr.com/post/145585769687/see-it-or-skip-it-la-how-do-you-almost-sabotage
“really funny show about a really unlikely relationship”
“See it!”