“Tony & Tina's Wedding” at Turner Hall Ballroom on Select Dates, December 5–14 (Up to 88% Off)
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Celebrated off-Broadway performance of over-the-top nuptials encourages audience interaction
The Deal
- $45 for one ticket to Tony & Tina’s Wedding (up to an $87.74 value)
- When: select dates, December 5–14
- Where: Turner Hall Ballroom
- Door time: one hour before showtime
- Ticket values include all fees.
- Italian buffet-style dinner, wedding cake, and champagne toast included in ticket price<p>
Tony & Tina’s Wedding
When it premiered off-Broadway in 1988, Tony &Tina’s Wedding quickly gathered a following for its unconventional send-up of the Italian-American wedding between the Nunzio and Vitale families. The interactive performance has since been lauded by almost every major publication. Covert performers are placed at the tables of seated audience members, with each guest having a one-of-a-kind theatergoing experience based on seating, interactivity, and promising to not dig their own plot holes. A robust Italian dinner and slices of decadent wedding cake precede a rush onto the theater’s sprawling dance floor, where toe-tapping tunes bridge the gap between the feuding clans. Like jokes from a cigar-chomping uncle, the reception includes appearances from a pregnant bridesmaid, a stripper girlfriend, and a drunk priest, with all of them speeding the evening’s festivities to an unpredictable and sidesplitting finale.
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About Tony & Tina's Wedding
As vaudeville heaved its last breaths in the late 1920s, RKO’s Riverside Theater opened in 1928 and served as a performance hall for just a few years before Warner Brothers took it over to screen their films. Decades of neglect followed, reaching a nadir in 1966 when a carelessly tossed cigarette butt incinerated the proscenium’s drapery, prompting the cash-conscious owners to replace the opulent teal velour with workmanlike duvetyn. A slated demolition in 1982 nearly replaced the theater with a shopping mall before a coalition of citizens convinced philanthropist Joseph Zilber to save the space. In the subsequent renovations, craftsmen installed plush red drapery, overhauled the obsolete lighting, and repainted the faded French Baroque gilding of the auditorium, restoring the elegant space to its former glory and inspiring it to get back out on the theater dating scene.