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Grandma Sylvia's Funeral

  • Glenn Wein
  • Full Length Play, Comedy
  • 12M, 10F
  • ISBN: 9780573626357

Audiences flock to join the bereaved at this Jewish funeral, a long running interactive sensation Off-Broadway and in Los Angeles.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

Audiences flock to join the bereaved at this Jewish funeral, a long running interactive sensation Off-Broadway and in Los Angeles.

The mourners (i.e. the audience) at Grandma's funeral are treated to fond remembrances, biographical anecdotes, shameless bickering and vaudeville like turns with the dearly departed's friends and family. A light mitzvah meal provides a brief respite in the on going hilarity.
REVIEWS:

"A raucous comedy."

 The New York Times

"Puts the fun back in funeral...You'll die laughing."

 New York Daily News

"Wacky and engaging...Only the food is Kosher!"

 Jewish Week

"Life restoring."

 Newsday

"Sing with the Rabbi, schmooze with the family, or just sit back and enjoy. The festivities are hysterical!"

 WNBC TV

"Interactive theatre reaches new levels...in which the entire audience is swept into the frolic."

 The Los Angeles Times

Premiere Production: Grandma Sylvia's Funeral officially opened in Hollywood, California on September 15, 1992.

Characters

  • Casting: 12M, 10F

  • GARY GROSSMAN - Late 20s, nice Jewish boy, Broadway belt.
    NATALIE CHASEN - 40s, new age earth mother to Gary and Todd.
    TODD GROSSMAN - Late 20s, cite with a cocky attitude, sexually compulsive.
    JERRY GROSSMAN - 50s, tough ex-cop.
    AVA GERARD - Early 30s, dark, post-op transsexual.
    DORI GROSSMAN - Mid 20s, pretty, tough, Brooklyn street chic.
    skyBOY GOSSMAN - Early 30s, performance artists with no talent, out to lunch.
    MARK GROSSMAN - Early 30s, slow 'Lenny' type (Of Mice and Men)
    MARLENA WEISS-GROSSMAN - 40s, heavy-set 'bitch goddess.' Make-up artist.
    HARVEY GROSSMAN - 40s, nebbish 'whipped' husband. Born-again Jew.
    MELISSA FRANKLIN - 20s, ACLU attorney. Must play a musical instrument.
    DR. BYRON FRANKLIN - 30s. African-American doctor.
    ISA IANNUZZI - Late 20s, beautiful and pampered Jewish 'Princess'.
    FREDO IANNUZZI - Late 20s, tough, handsome Italian.
    DAVE SCHILDINER - 70s, rich, kvetchy, kibitzer.
    ELISE DUEY - Early 40s, alcoholic, flamboyant Martha Mitchell type.
    DR. RACHEL ROSENBAUM - Early 30s, strident, strong knowledge of psychoanalysis.
    HELEN KRANTZ - Early 70s, Vivacious yenta. Fluent Yiddish.
    RABBI MICHAEL WOLFE - Early 30s, mild-mannered, Hebrew literate.
    HELGA HELSENROTT - 50s, Eastern European, harried and overworked mortuary owner.
    VLAD HELSENROTT - Early 30s, Dracula type. Son of Helga.

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    Audiences flock to join the bereaved at this Jewish funeral, a long running interactive sensation Off-Broadway and in Los Angeles.

    The mourners (i.e. the audience) at Grandma's funeral are treated to fond remembrances, biographical anecdotes, shameless bickering and vaudeville like turns with the dearly departed's friends and family. A light mitzvah meal provides a brief respite in the on going hilarity.

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