It would have been a boss move.<\/p>\n
Tony Danza was champing at the bit to dust off his apron and reprise his iconic \u201cWho\u2019s the Boss\u201d role opposite TV daughter Alyssa Milano in a spinoff about the pair living in a woke world.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a shot at it. I thought it might happen,\u201d Danza, 74, told The Post.<\/p>\n
Tony Danza told The Post that his TV daughter Alyssa Milano is \u201cone of the people in the world who wants to leave it a little better than she found it.\u201d Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought we had a real opportunity because of the timing of it, to address what was happening in the culture. Because you have Alyssa, who knows what\u2019s going on, and me, mixed up.\u201d<\/p>\n
The proposed series, which the on-screen daddy-daughter duo announced<\/a> in 2020, would have featured Danza\u2019s character, housekeeper Tony Micelli, as a retiree, and Milano\u2019s Samantha as a single mom, living in the original home from the hit sitcom, which ended its eight-season run in 1992.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had a real good script,\u201d Danza added of the show, which was in development at Amazon Freevee. No reasons were given when news that the project was dropped<\/a> came in 2024.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it would have been funny,\u201d Danza said. <\/p>\n The East New York, Brooklyn native, who now lives on the Upper West Side, also filmed a never-aired pilot for NBC with Sebastian Maniscalco, where he played the comedian\u2019s dad.<\/p>\n \u201cLet me tell you, It was funny,\u201d Danza said of the pitched series, dubbed \u201cSebastian Says<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n The Brooklyn native filmed a pilot with comedian Sebastian Maniscalco that never aired. Sebastian Maniscalco\/Facebook<\/p>\n \u201cAfter [Maniscalco] sold out four nights at Madison Square Garden. I thought there might be [potential]. But I think you get one shot at those things \u2026 It\u2019s too bad. The vagaries of TV, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n Although he may not be starring in any sitcoms, Danza is keeping busy with the nonprofit he co-founded, The\u00a0Stars of Tomorrow Project<\/a>, a free, year-round acting, voice and dance program for 14 to 25-year-olds from low-income communities\u00a0in the five boroughs.<\/p>\n Danza, a former professional boxer who was discovered by a TV producer at Gleason\u2019s Gym on West 30th Street and Eighth Avenue, said the Murray Hill-based nonprofit, which he launched in 2012 with actor Brian D. Hills, is inspired by his past.<\/p>\n A former professional boxer, Danza was discovered at a Manhattan gym and made his TV debut in the show \u201cTaxi.\u201d \u00a9Paramount Television\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n \u201cSo much of this comes from my background. I was a fighter in New York and I ended up in \u2018Taxi.\u2019 And I needed development,\u201d said Danza, who starred alongside Danny DeVito, Marilu Henner, Christopher Lloyd, and Andy Kaufman in the Emmy-winning sitcom, which ended in 1983.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt was one of the best acting schools you could go to because of who I was surrounded with.\u201d<\/p>\n His program\u2019s motto is: \u201cWhen you teach a kid how to act, you teach a kid how to act.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo much you have to do as an actor has to do with life in general. You have to be part of something bigger than yourself. You have to look people in the eye. You have to speak clearly. You have to be disciplined. You have to be on time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Danza co-founded The\u00a0Stars of Tomorrow Project, a free, year-round acting, voice and dance program for 14 to 25-year-olds from low-income communities\u00a0in the five boroughs. Courtesy of The Stars of Tomorrow Project<\/p>\n Danza recalled the story of one of the 1,105 students who have gone through his program \u2014 who told him he had zero interest in actually acting.<\/p>\n \u201cI said, \u2018Well, what\u2019d you come for?\u2019 He says, \u2018Because it\u2019s free and I figured there might be girls \u2026 And I\u2019m not interested in going to college because my father made a life for our family and me without going.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n That teen, Daniel Bravo Hernandez, not only went on to graduate from SUNY Purchase, but starred on Broadway in \u201cRomeo + Juliet.\u201d<\/p>\n His students will be performing in a variety show at the Triad Theater on Feb. 26. Courtesy of The Stars of Tomorrow Project<\/p>\n Many of Danza\u2019s students \u2014 who will be performing in a variety show<\/a> at the Triad Theater<\/a> on the Upper West Side on Feb. 26 \u2014 had never seen their mentor in \u201cTaxi\u201d or \u201cWho\u2019s the Boss.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re a little young for that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cI have a recognition quotient \u2026 when I go to a restaurant, if a 40-year-old guy is seating people, I\u2019m getting a table. If it\u2019s a 22-year-old, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t