But the performances in this touring production are fresh and assured. This 2016 musical based on Chazz Palminteri's 1989 solo show (which itself became a Robert De Niro-directed film in 1993) is a paradox. Palminteri wrote about his own life (when he was known as Calogero) around Belmont Avenue in the Bronx in the 1950s and 1960s, torn between the honest values of his bus driver father, …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM on March 20, 2019