Tony n' Tina's Wedding (DVD Review)

by Rob Lester EDGE Contributor Yo, dearly beloved, we are gathered here today with youse to review Tony ’n’ Tina’s Wedding. You got a problem wit’ dat? We got whiny-voiced Queens/Long Island accents (pronounced Lawwng Oy-lind), big Italian families who are volatile, obnoxious, feisty, trigger-tempered, and sporadically funny. In real life, you’d not want to sit next to dese goombahs for hours at a wedding reception, let alone marry one. Punches and insults fly freely ("Sorry," they say to the priest). Will the couple even make it to what the groom’s cluelessly crass strip club-owner father (John Fiore) calls "your honeymoon or whatever"? This piece began twenty years ago as interactive event theatre (audiences become part of the action by being wedding guests). Without the raison d’être gimmick, writer/director/producer Roger... [read full story]