This became “Talking Sopranos,” which debuted in April 2020. It was also around this time that Imperioli and Schirripa started to be approached by podcast producers, who told them they could take their stage show and bring it to the masses. Just over that last week in August, he told me, he saw three people with “Sopranos” tattoos. He also noticed that people in their 20s and 30s were coming up to him asking for selfies. Around 2019, Imperioli joined Instagram and discovered “all these fan sites and meme sites” dedicated to the show, and all these young people who’d made their avatar image a picture of Christopher in a neck brace.
They had, you know, pasta and pizza parties on Sunday night, and they grew older with us.” The die-hards within this group were the sorts of guys you might have met at the Silver Legacy in Reno: guys who love mob movies and think mobsters are cool, guys who know the manager at the casino. “We always had our audience that grew up with us,” Imperioli said. “ ‘The Sopranos’ was a perfect casino draw.” These were “high roller events” and “very Rat Pack” - and fun, he says. They’d be the entertainment for the night, telling stories from behind the scenes of the legendary show. “We’d go to Atlantic City, we’d go to Foxwoods,” and on down to “Tahoe and Reno,” stuff like that. In the years after its finale, he would still travel around with a handful of cast members to do spots at casinos: James Gandolfini (Tony), Steve Schirripa (Bobby Baccalieri), Tony Sirico (Paulie Walnuts) and Steven Van Zandt (Silvio Dante). Imperioli’s post-“Sopranos” career has been a successful one, but he has never fully escaped the show’s gravity. But then “The Sopranos” happened, and for the next decade he portrayed Christopher, the troubled, moody and impatient heir apparent to Tony Soprano’s crime family. When he took the job, he was a successful character actor - he played Spider in “Goodfellas,” the gofer kid Joe Pesci’s character kills for no good reason - and was in the process of writing the screenplay for “Summer of Sam,” which he went on to make with Spike Lee. Imperioli, like just about everyone with a significant role on “The Sopranos,” had his life completely upended by it. The concert had nothing to do with “ The Sopranos” it was a benefit for the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a trans rights organization. “I don’t know what they were expecting,” Imperioli told me later. Some were even dressed up like Christopher’s girlfriend, Adriana La Cerva, who favored form-fitting cheetah and tiger prints.
Looking over the crowd, Imperioli - the actor best known for playing Christopher Moltisanti on “The Sopranos” - saw a sea of youngish Sopranos fans. It was a Saturday night, and the concert was sold out. In August, Michael Imperioli and his band, Zopa, played a show at the Mercury Lounge in Lower Manhattan.
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