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Meet aspiring playwright Leonardo, twenty-four years old and fresh out of graduate school, arrives in New York City in the 1990s dreaming of Broadway. He also wants a husband and a family-which is not yet legal. He flops as a cater-waiter and a student throws a desk at him when he tries substitute teaching. His friend Julia helps him land a job at Bar Plato in the East Village. People-pleaser Leonardo can hardly contain his enthusiasm. Bar Plato is owned by the popular, fabulously hip film star, Jack Fresh, and his wife, Mara, only to discover they are cocaine addicts and abusive in every way imaginable. "Dark, funny, sharp, intelligent and real-unpretentious, with a big heart and deep soul,...
Oliver Pepper leads a simple life. Each night he can be found sitting alone, taking nips from his flask, in a cluttered study he alone finds appealing. His contemplation ends abruptly when his wife reveals an extended cyber-affair and he is fired from his job teaching Art History at a girls’ prep school. Crushed by his wife’s infidelity, suffocated by his sister and her new-age boyfriend, and harassed by all the friends and strangers who think his salvation depends on a crazy self-help book--The Castration of the 20th Century Man: How to Grow a New Set for the 21st Century--Oliver Pepper’s life is in comic disarray. Then, at an AA meeting, he meets Rosa, a sexy public school principal. Hoping to date her, he agrees to teach a riotous middle-school class. At Rosa’s school, Oliver meets two troubled boys. By helping them, he comes to terms with the traumatic death of his father and discovers a capacity for bringing unadulterated goodness--even beauty--into his world.
Bella, Mary and Dotty have been friends and next door neighbors in Boston's North End Italian neighborhood since childhood. Husbands and sons are away fighting and World War II impacts the neighborhood, exerting unsettling pressure to assimilate and change with the times on those who cherish traditions, values and cultural heritage. Against this backdrop, Bella's son is about to marry into an affluent Italian American family with connections to Beacon Hill. Secrets are revealed, lies are bared and truths are told as the war winds down and powerful emotions strain life long friendships.
Love, lust, opera and art occupy the Padroni family, Italian immigrants living on a vegetable farm near Boston in the 1930s. Widower Enio is the proud father of three children: Peter, the backbone of the family, Lawrence, the young idealist, and daughter Julia, whose simpleminded longing is for love. A meddling neighbor and a stranger selling rabbits trigger emotional upheavals that uncover secrets and alter lives. Seven Rabbits on a Pole played to sold out houses in New York City.
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Contains a collection of essays, facts and figures for Broadway and off- Broadway productions and synopses of the ten best plays of the year.
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