{"id":258070,"date":"2026-06-07T11:14:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258070\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T11:14:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:14:48","slug":"how-tony-danza-spends-a-day-playing-a-villain-and-frank-sinatra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258070\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tony Danza Spends a Day Playing a Villain and Frank Sinatra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"g-text  svelte-i5c8kc\">Tony Danza is making up for lost time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-i5c8kc\">\u201cOne of the things I most regret about my life is that I didn\u2019t take advantage of my youth,\u201d said Mr. Danza, 75. \u201cI had a great time, but nobody handed me an instrument and said, \u2018Try this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-i5c8kc\">Now he is learning how to speak Spanish, play the piano and a cornet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-i5c8kc\">Mr. Danza, best known for his leading roles in the television series \u201cWho\u2019s the Boss?\u201d and \u201cTaxi,\u201d has been entertainment\u2019s jack-of-all-trades for decades. Yet he\u2019s still striving to be the best singer, dancer and actor he can be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-i5c8kc\">\u201cWhat I am is a guy with finite time who wants to get in as much as he can while he can,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text  svelte-i5c8kc\">Mr. Danza spent a Friday with The New York Times as he got ready for two performances, including a one-man show at Caf\u00e9 Carlyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Danza is making up for lost time. \u201cOne of the things I most regret about my life&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1591,4629,100598,81657,64418,174,100596,100604,87200,9014,100600,100601,100599,9,11,10,56,85502,100597,2556,100602,85128,100603,96846,3467],"class_list":["post-258070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-actors-and-actresses","tag-boxing","tag-cafe-carlyle-manhattan","tag-carlyle-hotel-manhattan","tag-comedy-and-humor","tag-content-type-personal-profile","tag-danza","tag-dave-shoup","tag-frank","tag-hotel","tag-longfellow","tag-michael-1994","tag-musical-instruments","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-ny","tag-shakespeare-in-the-park","tag-sinatra","tag-television","tag-the-stars-of-tomorrow-project","tag-theater-broadway","tag-tom-cavanagh","tag-tony","tag-vis-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}