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ISBN 978-0-573-60076-0
Mart CrowleyComedy4m, 3fThis two-act comedic collision seems, at first, like a straightforward romp about marital grumblings. But there are all sorts of surprising complexities in the failed marriage of Kit, the WASP flame-haired rich girl, and Manny, the wry, wise-cracking Jewish TV composer, which has produced two precocious, sassy children and a situation in which the ex-wife and the ex-husband can’t seem to live with each other or without each other.‘Avec Schmaltz’ (a phrase European musicians would ironically use to instruct violinists how to emotionally heat-up their romantic string passages) is about this devoted divorced couple, their new partners, and their two glib offspring at holiday time. It moves from a Currier and Ives winter wonderland of Christmas Eve in Connecticut to a New Year’s Eve in sun-drenched Beverly Hills, California. It concerns the ex-marital couple, their lovers, and would-be-lovers entering and exiting in a farcical, light-hearted, but dead-serious comedy in two acts. There is no facile resolution to the question of “will-they-or-won’t-they?” get back together. Rather, there is the emotional vitality of people clinging to what relational lifeboats they are tossed in the buoyant excursion called life!FEE: $100 per performanceCharacter Descriptions: KIT – Mid-30s, beautiful, flame-haired, “well-finished” private school girl, divorced mother of a young daughter and teenage son. NELLIE – 7 year-old freckled miniature of her mother, feisty, glib. JOSH – 15 year-old, dark-eyed, dark-haired, smart, sensitive, droll. NICK – Mid-30s, handsome, polished, divorced WASP “rich-boy.” MANNY – Mid-30s, attractive, jokey, Jewish ex-rock musician turned television composer, ex-husband of Kit and father of Nellie and Josh. WENDY – Late-20s, sexy, savvy TV producer. COLIN – Mid-30s, nice-looking, well-educated, sophisticated professional violinist.
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