Did you know that Tony was a dancer and an actor? For six weeks he took ballet classes with a very good teacher, auditioned and landed a role in a musical as a chorus boy in Houston Texas. it was a famous musical, but I forgot the title. He also was one of the woodcutters in Blood wedding by Garcia Lorca and understudy for the lead role. He had to replace the lead only once and in his own words 'I sucked'. He also followed the classes with Lee Strasberg in the Actors Studio while living in New York. He did some work for TV. The director of 'The Missing Melody' Bernard L. Kowalski has work by Tony Mafia.
He often painted dancers. He like the fluidity of the movements and the attitudes. This painting is called Throwing flowers at the misty mountains.
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