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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, this is Vinnie, my man Tony Danz. How you doing, buddy.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You know what, Vinnie, it's so good. I'm scared, you
know what I mean. I know you never did happiness,
you know what I mean. It's like you get like
I get worried that this that you know, it's just
been really good. You know. We've been playing the Carlisle
this last September. I opened the season with the show
(00:28):
I wrote about Sinatra, and I've been playing there now
untill last night I closed and I did thirty one sellouts.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, I don't know the place in the city, you
know what I mean. It's like, you know, I can't
believe I don't know if my name's remotely familiar to you.
We've chatted before. You've been on a couple of times.
But the last time that you were rived it was
a good a good long time ago, and it was
when you were taking this show on the road. You
(01:02):
decided I'm going to do a song and dance man thing,
which how long ago, And the big scheme thing, big
scheme of things is that, yeah, you know, a while ago,
but I mean it really it took off and you
were nervous. I remember you were like, I don't know,
we'll see how it goes. I got stories to tell.
Obviously it went well.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You know what, It's been an evolution because when I started,
I had a big act. Had I had two I
had two dancing girls. I had another dance my tap
dance teacher in the show. I had a bigger band.
I used to do sets and costumes, and I had
videotape gag reels from taxi and who's the and little
by little you shed all that stuff. And now it's
(01:44):
four guys that abandoned me. Yeah, and the shoes are great.
I wrote one. I wrote one to answer your question.
In nineteen ninety three, I hit a tree skiing.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You remember that, sure of course I remember.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, I almost you know, I almost bought it. And
I was sitting there as I was rehabing. It took
two years to rehab But as I was sitting there rehabing,
I said, what do I want to do? I'm getting
another chance. And because there was some wacky you know,
they were telling me, who you know, you might not
walk and all that kind of stuff. Remember, you know,
(02:20):
we joke about it. I do a joke about it.
Then you when you wake up on a respirator and
you look up and everybody's crying, including the priest. You say, man,
I need a second opinion, you know, because that's how
serious it was. I was thinking what I want to
do with my rest of my life and I started this.
(02:41):
And so it's like since ninety six ninety five.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, I mean that word, I don't know what that's.
Wait a minute, further back then, I would have thought.
But I mean I was doing Top forty radio then,
and you I remember you were on then, on that
particular show Cassi one to one. But I warn't have
thought it was far back. Damn you know what.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I had been tap dancing about ten years. Yeah, and
I was like, yeah, I can do this maybe you know.
And so you know what's funny is I I'm telling
you I'm finally really getting to where I feel like
I'm good at it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, well, you're good at a lot of things. Listen,
I want to tell you one thing really important. First
of all, Taxi was like my family's favorite show. So
let's just get that out of the way. That's one
of the best ensemble comedies ever, you know, ever written.
So that was you must see TV. That was six
people a family that all we did was scream at
each other except eat it and on Tuesday nights between
(03:39):
it was a nine. Yeah, because it got moved around
a little bit. Obviously got Who's the Boss? I could
reference a million things, but here's your greatest work, Tony Dan's.
I'm going to tell you it was in Don John
that character. I would love to see you revisit that character.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It was fun to jost ghost of Gordon Levity terrific.
I got the kiss.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, yeah, I recall. Now I've been seeing clips of
you are you taking it out on the streets? Videos
are popping up in my feet of Tony Danzer singing
on you know, stringing on the streets in Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
No, No, it's the New York moment. It's in Manhattan.
It's on Colobus Avenue. Mike freen Manny has a joint.
Man he's bestow on the place. On Sunday. He put
out a he gets a jazz put him on the
street and you walk by and everybody you know, you know,
you know it's fun because there's a kick line. Sometimes
it's crazy. Yeah, And it's a real moment where and
(04:42):
I'm not the only one who sings. Sometimes I might
be the only one getting any any press for it,
but yeah, it's terrific. It's it's really nice thing. Little
kids are out there. They can't believe there's a band,
and I get little kids to sing too. You know
what I did?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
It was great.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah. The kid right, he's saying the wheel She said,
I did do it. What's your favorite song? She says,
the Wheels on the Bus. I said to the band,
they guys, you play Wheels of the Bus. They go, yeah,
we could play it, and they did and she dang,
it was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
So unbelievable when it first popped up. You got your
long hair. Now, you know what I thought. I watched
it and I thought to myself, what a handsome bastard,
What a handsome bastard. Uh, it was a great cliff.
And you're playing this weekend Queensboro Performing Arts Center. Uh,
you got to show Nassau Pops Symphony Orchestra coming up
(05:33):
to the Stars of tomorrow benefit. These are all different
approaches different shows.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Well, first of all, the Yes, the show in Queensboro's
my first show. Standards of Stories, all right, the show
with the Symphony orchestra. They they charted the whole act,
the whole Sinatra act. I'm gonna do with the stack
that I'm doing it to Carla. I'm gonna do it
in front of a with four guys. I'm gonna do
with the symphony orchestra, which I can't wait. And but
(06:00):
the start of tomorrow is my my acting program, my
teen acting program three free.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
We solicited the high schools and October twenty third is
our Benefits show. You know, with the slogan of the
of the organization is when you teach a kid how
to act, you teach a kid how to act. So
we're having a lot of success. We got a kid.
Oh I lost you.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Wait a minute, I'm right here. Man got to hear you.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh yeah, you hear me. We got a kid. We
got a kid who went to the claim to the program,
left the program, came to the pret didn't want to
go to college, didn't want to act. He just he
thought it was free. It's free, and there might be girls.
That's what he said. And now we got back into college.
He gets through it, and he had his Broadway debut
in Romeo and Juliet on Broadway. Yeah, were flying high,
(06:53):
were flying pretty high.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, well that's great stuff. And if I'm not mistaken, Tony,
and I know you got a busy day today. I
think that's what you announced on my show way back.
When did it originally begin as I think it was
called Tony Danza does Sinatra? Danza does Sinatra? Is that
what it initially was?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Well? No, I never never would would say that this
is cool. You know, the first show I wrote in
twenty fifteen, to get into the Car, that was standards
story okay, standards of self explanatory. And I was writing
another one and I was trying to do something Sinatra,
and I wrote Sinatra and stories. Okay. So this is
(07:34):
the whole thing about my You know what happened was
my mother made me nuts about him when I was
a kid. Same then when I got to home, somehow
I got to be around him and with him.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
That's unbelievable. Yeah, it's so funny. We had a framed
my mother had a framed portrait of Sinatra over the
fireplace growing up. I used to I used to tease
her about that all the time, like, shouldn't we have
Grandpa there? Why do we have Sinatra over the fireplace,
but we did, and you that you're reminded me. You
came through. You played the cabaret at Mohegan Sun. I
(08:05):
think it was one of your first shows. You may
remember that remote room. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, yeah, no, I was. I played the I used
to play there a lot. Yeah, I used to go
a lot.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah. Well, I wish you continued success, huge fan. I
don't know. I don't know if I mentioned yet, handsome bastard,
just a handsome bastard. I don't know if I said that.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yet, Benny, here's the extra ten.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
That was perfect, my man, continued success.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Thanks man. I appreciate you too. Okay, your families good.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I hope we're doing all right. We're hanging in there.
I appreciate you asking very kind of you, all right, man,
Hey, this is Vinnie, my man Tony Danz. How you doing, buddy.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You know what, Vinnie, it's so good. I'm scared, you
know what I mean. I know you never did happiness,
you know what I mean. It's like you get like
I get worried that this that you know, it's just
been really good. You know. We've been playing the Carlisle
this last September. I opened the season with the show
(00:28):
I wrote about Sinatra, and I've been playing there now
untill last night I closed and I did thirty one sellouts.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, I don't know the place in the city, you
know what I mean. It's like, you know, I can't
believe I don't know if my name's remotely familiar to you.
We've chatted before. You've been on a couple of times.
But the last time that you were rived it was
a good a good long time ago, and it was
when you were taking this show on the road. You
(01:02):
decided I'm going to do a song and dance man thing,
which how long ago, And the big scheme thing, big
scheme of things is that, yeah, you know, a while ago,
but I mean it really it took off and you
were nervous. I remember you were like, I don't know,
we'll see how it goes. I got stories to tell.
Obviously it went well.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You know what, It's been an evolution because when I started,
I had a big act. Had I had two I
had two dancing girls. I had another dance my tap
dance teacher in the show. I had a bigger band.
I used to do sets and costumes, and I had
videotape gag reels from taxi and who's the and little
by little you shed all that stuff. And now it's
(01:44):
four guys that abandoned me. Yeah, and the shoes are great.
I wrote one. I wrote one to answer your question.
In nineteen ninety three, I hit a tree skiing.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You remember that, sure of course I remember.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, I almost you know, I almost bought it. And
I was sitting there as I was rehabing. It took
two years to rehab But as I was sitting there rehabing,
I said, what do I want to do? I'm getting
another chance. And because there was some wacky you know,
they were telling me, who you know, you might not
walk and all that kind of stuff. Remember, you know,
(02:20):
we joke about it. I do a joke about it.
Then you when you wake up on a respirator and
you look up and everybody's crying, including the priest. You say, man,
I need a second opinion, you know, because that's how
serious it was. I was thinking what I want to
do with my rest of my life and I started this.
(02:41):
And so it's like since ninety six ninety five.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, I mean that word, I don't know what that's.
Wait a minute, further back then, I would have thought.
But I mean I was doing Top forty radio then,
and you I remember you were on then, on that
particular show Cassi one to one. But I warn't have
thought it was far back. Damn you know what.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I had been tap dancing about ten years. Yeah, and
I was like, yeah, I can do this maybe you know.
And so you know what's funny is I I'm telling
you I'm finally really getting to where I feel like
I'm good at it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, well, you're good at a lot of things. Listen,
I want to tell you one thing really important. First
of all, Taxi was like my family's favorite show. So
let's just get that out of the way. That's one
of the best ensemble comedies ever, you know, ever written.
So that was you must see TV. That was six
people a family that all we did was scream at
each other except eat it and on Tuesday nights between
(03:39):
it was a nine. Yeah, because it got moved around
a little bit. Obviously got Who's the Boss? I could
reference a million things, but here's your greatest work, Tony Dan's.
I'm going to tell you it was in Don John
that character. I would love to see you revisit that character.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It was fun to jost ghost of Gordon Levity terrific.
I got the kiss.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, yeah, I recall. Now I've been seeing clips of
you are you taking it out on the streets? Videos
are popping up in my feet of Tony Danzer singing
on you know, stringing on the streets in Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
No, No, it's the New York moment. It's in Manhattan.
It's on Colobus Avenue. Mike freen Manny has a joint.
Man he's bestow on the place. On Sunday. He put
out a he gets a jazz put him on the
street and you walk by and everybody you know, you know,
you know it's fun because there's a kick line. Sometimes
it's crazy. Yeah, And it's a real moment where and
(04:42):
I'm not the only one who sings. Sometimes I might
be the only one getting any any press for it,
but yeah, it's terrific. It's it's really nice thing. Little
kids are out there. They can't believe there's a band,
and I get little kids to sing too. You know
what I did?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
It was great.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah. The kid right, he's saying the wheel She said,
I did do it. What's your favorite song? She says,
the Wheels on the Bus. I said to the band,
they guys, you play Wheels of the Bus. They go, yeah,
we could play it, and they did and she dang,
it was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
So unbelievable when it first popped up. You got your
long hair. Now, you know what I thought. I watched
it and I thought to myself, what a handsome bastard,
What a handsome bastard. Uh, it was a great cliff.
And you're playing this weekend Queensboro Performing Arts Center. Uh,
you got to show Nassau Pops Symphony Orchestra coming up
(05:33):
to the Stars of tomorrow benefit. These are all different
approaches different shows.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Well, first of all, the Yes, the show in Queensboro's
my first show. Standards of Stories, all right, the show
with the Symphony orchestra. They they charted the whole act,
the whole Sinatra act. I'm gonna do with the stack
that I'm doing it to Carla. I'm gonna do it
in front of a with four guys. I'm gonna do
with the symphony orchestra, which I can't wait. And but
(06:00):
the start of tomorrow is my my acting program, my
teen acting program three free.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
We solicited the high schools and October twenty third is
our Benefits show. You know, with the slogan of the
of the organization is when you teach a kid how
to act, you teach a kid how to act. So
we're having a lot of success. We got a kid.
Oh I lost you.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Wait a minute, I'm right here. Man got to hear you.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh yeah, you hear me. We got a kid. We
got a kid who went to the claim to the program,
left the program, came to the pret didn't want to
go to college, didn't want to act. He just he
thought it was free. It's free, and there might be girls.
That's what he said. And now we got back into college.
He gets through it, and he had his Broadway debut
in Romeo and Juliet on Broadway. Yeah, were flying high,
(06:53):
were flying pretty high.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, well that's great stuff. And if I'm not mistaken, Tony,
and I know you got a busy day today. I
think that's what you announced on my show way back.
When did it originally begin as I think it was
called Tony Danza does Sinatra? Danza does Sinatra? Is that
what it initially was?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Well? No, I never never would would say that this
is cool. You know, the first show I wrote in
twenty fifteen, to get into the Car, that was standards
story okay, standards of self explanatory. And I was writing
another one and I was trying to do something Sinatra,
and I wrote Sinatra and stories. Okay. So this is
(07:34):
the whole thing about my You know what happened was
my mother made me nuts about him when I was
a kid. Same then when I got to home, somehow
I got to be around him and with him.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
That's unbelievable. Yeah, it's so funny. We had a framed
my mother had a framed portrait of Sinatra over the
fireplace growing up. I used to I used to tease
her about that all the time, like, shouldn't we have
Grandpa there? Why do we have Sinatra over the fireplace,
but we did, and you that you're reminded me. You
came through. You played the cabaret at Mohegan Sun. I
(08:05):
think it was one of your first shows. You may
remember that remote room. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, yeah, no, I was. I played the I used
to play there a lot. Yeah, I used to go
a lot.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah. Well, I wish you continued success, huge fan. I
don't know. I don't know if I mentioned yet, handsome bastard,
just a handsome bastard. I don't know if I said that.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yet, Benny, here's the extra ten.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
That was perfect, my man, continued success.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Thanks man. I appreciate you too. Okay, your families good.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I hope we're doing all right. We're hanging in there.
I appreciate you asking very kind of you, all right, man,
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