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October 16, 2025 9 mins

Emmy nominated actor Tony Danza checks in to talk new movie 'Re-Elected', new Sinatra stage show and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On with Mario Lopez.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Bro Mario Lopez joining me right now, Emmy nominated actor
and excellent cruner.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
My man, mister Tony Dan.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
How you doing, Tony pretty well? Thank you Mary, thank
you about yourself.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
I'm doing well. I'm doing well.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's funny because I was just telling you off air,
we were just talking about you. Well, I'll get into
that a little bit later. But I had the pleasure
of seeing you perform in La not too long ago.
It was such a fun show, such a great time.
And uh, following you on social media, I know you're
still out doing your thing. What's the next time we're
gonna be out here in La.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Uh, that's a good question. I can't remember. I got
a bunch. I'm doing like seven shows at seven cities,
eighteen shows. Wow. You know, so I've been on a Yeah,
I've been doing I've been playing the Carlisle. That's been
a lot of fun. Of course, you know that's always
so great. Yeah, that's so I wrote this show. I
wrote a new show. I wrote a show called you know,

(00:55):
the first one was called Standards and Stories. This one's
called Sinatra in Story because you know, I had a
little I got to be around him.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, I know it, and I love that. I love it.
I remember him being on your show back in the
day too.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, he actually did my show.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Imagine I remember that. That must have been a wild
Your mom must have crazy for that. Oh that's right,
you got you got a bunch of stuff going on.
But first off, you're in this new movie, re Election.
It's a comedy. Uh looks pretty funny. What's the premise here.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
It's about a guy, you know, It's like, I think
it's relatable. It's about a guy who feels like there
was a moment in his life that didn't go his
way and it changed his whole life. And he's sort
of he's been I play his father, and he's been
sitting around Adam Sawnd this terrific kid, he wrote, directed
and starting a picture. So but he he's he's sitting

(01:49):
around doing nothing. He decides he wants to go back
to high school. And it was the incident was he lost.
He was the student body president freshman, sophomore, junior year,
senior year, gets licked and the guy ends up with
his girlfriend and it goes on to be the governor
of the state. So his whole life was that was
the guy took his life and so finally he just

(02:11):
to go back. But you know, going back to high
school when you're forty six or whatever he is, you know,
things have changed. Yeah, yeah, it's and it's it's a
lot of fun. And I think it's you know, I think,
you know one of the things I worry about a
lot is is, you know, young young generation struggling, uh,
you know, to get out of high college. They did

(02:32):
everything everybody said they were supposed to do. They took
on a lot of debt and a lot of cases too,
and then they can't find a job. They can't find
they don't they can't live up to their own expectations.
And I was just listening to some guy just now
on one of these channels. They're talking about this this
this real thing that they're worried about with young men
with with with boys. There's this thing or you know,

(02:55):
it's it's it's just it's so different from when even
you grow up. I mean, you know, I'm much older
than you, Marrio, but even when you grow up, it
was so much it's so much different than it is now.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
No, you're exactly right.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Is that one of the things that sort of drew
you to this role, Tony. The fact that it was
sort of a father son relationship and yeah, well I
explore that.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
The father was in relationship really struck stuck struck me.
And it also, yeah, this, you know, this is this
is one of those little independent movies that had something
to say too, you know. So it's kind of cool. Really,
I'm pleased with it. I'm really pleased with it. So
I hope people will like it.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
I love it, I love it.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Look forward to checking that out and again look forward
to doing or checking you out and.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Saying, you know what I'm doing. You know what I'm
doing next Sunday.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Tell me this is so crazy.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
So I wrote that show. We've taken it and charted
it for a symphony orchestra.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
In other words, I'm going to do the act, but
it's then having four pieces, you know, my drums, guitar,
a base in a piano. I'm going to have like
sixty nine pieces. Wow. My band's going to be there too.
Of my band's in there. Yeah, but I'm playing with
a symphony which is at the Tillis Center on Long

(04:15):
Island and Old Brookville in Brookville. I mean not old Brookville, Brookville,
So it's kind of cool. I'm excited, you know, it's
it's my stomping ground. So I'm going to see a
lot of people, I think. So that is I got
to get to sing with a symphony.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Is not your first time you get to do that.
I was just gonna ask twice before.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Mary, I've done it twice before. But it's you know,
it's it's my buggle.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
I can't imagine. Oh, that's going to be awesome. Which
that's something you got to see in person right there
for sure. And Tony, you've taken on so many.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Different roles in your life, and you know, you know,
I'm a big fan and in personally and too.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
You were a fighter, you're actor, dancer, singer, you were
even a teacher at one point.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Have you clicked off all the creative challenges that you
wanted to tackle you think in life?

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Oh no, Mario, I think you know. You know that's
a good thing about the the profession that we were
in is is that you know, you know, if you
if you get lucky, something might really happen. So I
don't know, I'm feeling pretty good. I'm I'm able. I'm
still able. To tap dance a little bit. I'm a
lot closer to the floor than I used to be.

(05:22):
But but you know, I feel like I can. I
can still do it, and maybe who knows, something really
special might come along. You never know.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Absolutely, I love it. I love it good. That's that's nice.
Sangway for me for later. I'm the family, by the way.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
They don't believe, you know, I got a little girl. Anyway.
I don't know if you're going to see this, but
we we had a little baby girl.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Congratulations was Rosie.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
But she's going to kill you. What when you see her?

Speaker 3 (05:50):
See if you can see, Oh my god, I'm cute.
That's the best.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Katie. Katie had a baby. That's the And then the boys.
You know, I got the two grandsons and once now
second year student in college and he got fourteen and
lifting weights. He's ripped. You gotta see him. That's awesome.
It's wild, it's it's wonderful. You know, being a grandplaw
is very different.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
I get to give him back and have fun, and
that's it, right.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
He's not even that. I was thinking religiously, like if
God said to Abraham, yo, Abraham, that's where God talks.
By the way, you got to you got to sacrifice
your grandson. He just said, enough for nothing. God the
son may be, but not the grandson's exactly right.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
My dad, like, my dad's a different person with my kids.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Right.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
This guy, I mean, this guy was the guy that
raised the son. He is so.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Funny, exactly. Always a pleasure at catching up with you,
sir and everyone. Please be sure to check out Tony
in the new comedy re Election. If you ever get
an opportunity to check him out perform live. Do not
miss that either. Tony, thank you so much for checking
it a.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Man, Thanks a lot, Mary, Mary. Just one other thing, yes, sir,
Well October twenty third, you know I get that kid
acting teen acting program. It's a full now three months,
three years of five and one c three. We're legit, nonprofit,
non tax deductible. Thank you, Uncle Sam. And October twenty third,

(07:24):
we're doing our yearly benefit. We do two, but this
is the big one and we're at the Sheen Center
on Bleaker Street downtown and we just go to the
Stars of Tomorrow dot Org and we need you know,
it's you know, Mario, I really feel like sometimes we

(07:45):
just have totally advocated any responsibility for nurturing our children. Yeah,
you know, and we just got a we just got
a headquarters. Ya, finally we got a headquarters. And we
had a kid go from the program. Marrio Daniel there
there's from the from the program. Got them at to college,
finished colleague. I have to finish college. And he made

(08:07):
his debut on Broadway in Romeo and Juliet.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
Wow, that's incredible, that's right.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Congratulations, we're really we're really doing some good stuff. And
and and you know, it's it's it works, you know,
it just gives something else to think about. And that's
all they you know in Boom, it's it's time. We
had a we had man, let me show you one
more thing on the stupid phone. And now you.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
Know we had ah, you know, we got this new
new headquarters that you know, because we always rented space
and and it was a pain in the neck, you know,
because the kids couldn't stay.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Once you're renting space, you gotta lead. This is an
ensemble building class in the new place. And these are
all new kids. These are all new kids. Brian in
the middle of it, my partner. They had their eyes
closed and they're trying to trust each other. It's a building,
you know.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
That's awesome. We'll put all the info on our website too, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah yeah, stars at tomorrow dot org. It's time. Me good, great, great.
The kids is so much fun, is unbelievable. That's awesome
for me to get it back, all right, Mary, I
appreciate that. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
You got it with Mario Lopez
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