Robert De Niro and Jerry Zaks co-direct 'A Bronx Tale,' a musical version of Chazz Palminteri's one-man play about growing up in an Italian-American neighborhood, also turned into a 1993 film.

The less Chazz Palminteri appears in “A Bronx Tale” the softer his show grows. What began as a tough one-man play written and performed by Palminteri, in 1990, soon spawned a film in which the ...