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

solo performance · ape x productions · United States of America

one person show world premiere
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Review by CHARLES ZIARKO

June 16, 2016 certified reviewer

What I liked

Clever, and fact-BASED

What I didn't like

What’s the point of doing it?

My overall impression

Rich rapper Tupac Shakur (b. Lesane Crooks) lived a life of violence and died in a hail of bullets on the Las Vegas Strip two decades ago, just one year after he’d corresponded with middlebrow icon Tony Danza—-while he was in prison for felonious rape! !!! Unlike DEAR LIAR (which was real) and LOVE LETTERS (which was not) this is a reasonably Reimagined Reconstruction of the the content of those letters by a Brit, Steven Benaquist, who embellishes them with light imitations of both men for almost 3/4 of an hour. I’m a Tony Danza fan, which drew me in, and to say I’ve never seen anything like it is putting it mildly!

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