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An Italian Christmas Eve Feast, written, directed, and produced by Anna Maria Trusky of Mystic, is a hilarious, heartwarming, at-times-zany comedy that can probably best be described as "Neil Simon meets Federico Fellini"! And the audience gets to be part of the fun, with moments of interaction interspersed throughout the show!Synopsis
The Pescatores, an Italian-American family headed by Neapolitan immigrants, who run a small mom-and-pop grocery store in New London, prepare to celebrate Christmas Eve with the traditional Feast of the Seven Fishes. Mamma Lucia pines for Italy while planning an elaborate menu that will make everyone happy with the help of Angelina, eldest son Mario's ex-girlfriend and the daughter Mamma always wanted. Mario, a famous singer who hasn't been home for Christmas in 26 years, has texted that he will be home for the feast but nobody knows why! Middle son Pasquale, an aspiring stand-up comic, is planning to sneak out after dinner to do an open mic, while youngest son Dante dreams of leaving the family business and opening his own restaurant. Only daughter, the free-spirited Rosanna, can't be bothered with holiday preparations, much to Mamma's chagrin, and is out doing magic tricks with Pappa's older brother Peppino, a Neapolitan magician with a fondness for grappa. Cousins are on their way from Italy to visit the family in America for the first time ever!
Everyone is waiting for Pappa Francesco to come home with the fish. Suddenly, things get more than a little zany, as Italian holiday celebrations often do! Will the family have a happy reunion with Mario? Will everything be "tutto bene" with Mamma and Pappa? Will the cousins from Italy ever make it? And most important of all, will there actually BE an Italian Christmas Eve feast?
Dates and Time
The dinner theater production will be Friday, December 20 and Saturday, December 21 ONLY. The evening will begin at 6:00 with a delicious buffet prepared by La Luna Ristorante, accompanied by traditional Neapolitan and Italian songs played by accordion virtuoso Rimas Polikaitis of Manchester, CT!
Cast
The talented cast is as follows (in order of appearance):
ANGELINA DIGIOIA . . . Tina Falivene
MAMMA LUCIA PESCATORE . . . Christine Reynolds
PASQUALE PESCATORE . . . Evan Brown
DANTE PESCATORE . . . Nathan Rumney
ROSANNA PESCATORE . . . Marilyn Lowney
ZIO PEPPINO PESCATORE . . . Keith Eugene Brayne
MARIO PESCATORE . . . Christopher Currier
PAPPA FRANCESCO PESCATORE . . . Marc Cerrone
About the Playwright/Director
Anna Maria's plays have been seen in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York--including the annual Mayfly Playhouse, part of the Hygienic Art Festival; Mystic Seaport Museum's Lantern Light Tours; the Thames Club in New London; the Burton Leavitt Theater in Willimantic; the Donald L. Oat Theatre in Norwich; the Dina Merrill Theatre at the Eugene O'Neill Center in Waterford; the Chestnut Street Playhouse in Norwich; the Shaw Mansion in New London; the KNOW Theatre in Binghamton, NY; and the United Theatre in Westerly, RI. Her spooky play The Ledge, inspired by a visit to the Ledge Light Lighthouse, was adapted into a radio play and performed by Prometheus Theatre of the Air, an award-winning radio theater troupe operating out of Eastern CT, for its "Tales of Terror" Halloween show. She wrote skits for many years for The Second Step Players, a theater troupe that performs under Artreach Inc., an Arts and Health Agency supporting mental health and wellness through the creative and performing arts. Her site-specific murder mystery plays were performed on the Essex Steam Train and produced by the award-winning Riverway Studio in East Haddam. Anna wrote episodes of the Emmy-nominated children's web series Kidsploration with Steve Elci and Friends, produced by The Day. Anna is a Spolin-trained improvisational comedy professional and co-founder of the long-running improv troupe Comedy on Demand. She has studied stand-up comedy with New London's David Iscoe and hopes to do more.
Tickets are only $55 for music, dinner, and the show. For reservations, please call 475-301-3148, email
[email protected], or go to
www.lalunaristorante-nl.com.
With only two performances, the seats will go fast! Make your reservations today for "a dinner theater whose main ingredient is love"!
Rated G
Buon Natale!!!
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Holiday Inn New London, 35 Governor Winthrop Blvd, New London, CT 06320-6615, United States,New London, Connecticut
