REVIEW: Mike Tyson’s one-man show packs no punch
There is apparently a threat by someone on Twitter to execute a shooting rampage at the Broadway theater that’s playing “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth.” This has added something sadly lacking in Tyson’s one-man show: any sense of drama.
The former champion boxer and convicted rapist promises at the beginning of his odd and pathetic show, which mercifully ends its run Sunday at the Longacre Theatre, that he’ll offer the unvarnished truth of his tortured life. What actually comes out sounds more like a press release written by someone else.
“I know many of you are probably wondering, ‘What the hell is Mike Tyson going to do up here onstage tonight?'” he asks. “Well, frankly, I’m wondering the same thing, too.”