Italian Stallion Face-Off! Watch Rocky's Andy Karl Do His Best Sylvester Stallone Impression on Show People

Andy Karl is about to put on a pair of shiny satin shorts and step into the Broadway ring as the Italian Stallion in the new musical Rocky, based on the 1976 boxing blockbuster of the same name. Does Karl have what it takes to battle heavyweight champion Apollo Creed? Find out in this Show People flashback from January 2013, where Karl chats about standing a mere “five feet away” from Sylvester Stallone during an early reading of the musical, and actually doing an impression of Stallone…in front of Stallone! Click below to see Karl’s silly story about sparring with the screen icon, then see his boxing skills in Rocky, beginning February 11, 2014 at the Winter Garden Theatre!