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A Bronx Tale

Opened 2016

700 performances

Musical, Contemporary

The Todd Haimes Theatre, where it played in 2007.
The Todd Haimes Theatre, where it played in 2007. Harp369

A Bronx Tale is a musical based on the play by the same name with a book by Chazz Palminteri, music by Alan Menken, and lyrics by Glenn Slater. After a ten-year development process, the original one man show was adapted into a new musical and premiered at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey on February 4, 2016, before opening on Broadway December 1 later that year.

Music
Alan Menken
Lyrics
Glenn Slater
Book
Chazz Palminteri

Productions2 on Broadway

2007
Walter Kerr TheatreBroadway Original, opened October 25, 2007, directed by Jerry Zaks
111 performances
2016
Longacre TheatreBroadway Revival, opened December 1, 2016, directed by Robert De Niro & Jerry Zaks
700 performances

Recordings 1 recording

2017
A Bronx Tale: The Musical
A Bronx Tale: The Musical Ghostlight Records 84514-02, released May 12, 2017
United States

It’s like in the movie A Bronx Tale, when the bikers come into the bar and create trouble and say, “We’re not leaving.” Then the door closes and they’re told, “Now you can’t leave.” When you open a show, it feels a little like that.

Untold Stories of Broadway Volume 2 Part 1 the Jennifer Tepper, p. 56

“One of the Great Ones” (A Bronx Tale). Alan Menken, whose heart is more on Broadway than in Hollywood, deserves more Tonys.

The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 207

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