Meyer Lansky may be dead, but that isn’t preventing him from making an appearance on the Great White Way--sort of.
According to the AP, a one man show about the life and times of Lansky, a reputed mobster, who served as the inspiration for Hyman Roth in The Godfather: Part II, is set to premiere on Broadway.
The show features Mike Burstyn in the role of a middle-aged Lansky, chatting to the audience from a nondescript room in Tel Aviv as he waits for his application for Israeli citizenship to be approved. While he awaits his pending Israeli citizenship, Lansky discusses his friendships with Bugsy Siegel and Charles "Lucky" Luciano, the brains behind some of the Mafia's most legendary feats, including the famed--and bloody--Murder Inc., the murder for hire squad that Siegel headed from its inception in the 1920s to the group's disbandment in 1945.
Throughout the show, Burstyn--as Lansky--pleads for the audience's forgiveness, describing himself as being "Pro-American" and "Pro-Israel," and referring his many run-ins with America Firsters and Neo-Nazis during and after WWII.
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