Don’t stop believing.
Thirteen years after the fade-to-black series finale talked about around the world, “The Sopranos” is back. On Friday, the cast will reunite to raise money for New York firefighters.
The live event will raise funds for Friends of Firefighters, a nonprofit founded in the wake of 9/11 that provides counseling and support to retired firefighters and their families.
Tragically, the virtual event can’t include James Gandolfini, who died in 2013 of a heart attack at 51, but a slew of cast and creators will participate, including Lorraine Bracco, Steve Buscemi, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Robert Iler, Drea de Matteo, Tim Van Patten, Steve Schirripa, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Maureen Van Zandt, Steven Van Zandt and creator David Chase, along with writer Terence Winter.
There will also be a reading of a new sketch penned by Chase and Winter.
The pioneering mob drama aired on HBO between 1999 and 2007, raking in a whopping 21 Emmys and ushering in a new age of antiheroes and a golden age of TV.
The world of “The Sopranos” will be revisited in the prequel film “The Many Saints of Newark,” starring Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., Jon Bernthal, Ray Liotta and Gandolfini’s son, Michael Gandolfini. After being delayed by the pandemic, “The Many Saints of Newark” is slated for release in March.
The two-hour reunion event will air at 7 p.m. Friday on the fundraising platform Tiltify.