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Crossing Delancey

  • Susan Sandler
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Contemporary
  • 2M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573619885

"An amusing romance that tells its unpretentious story believably, rarely trying to make its gag line, of which there are many, upstage its narration or outshine its heart."

The New York Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

  • Time Period: Contemporary
Isabelle is a modern young woman who lives alone and works in a book shop. When she is not pining after a handsome author, she is visiting her grandmother (Bubbie) in Manhattan's Lower East Side.

This irascible granny and her friend the matchmaker have found a "good catch" for Isabel, whose initial reluctance gives way to a blossoming romance when she finally meets Sam, the pickle vendor as the end of the play offers a new beginning.
REVIEWS:

"An amusing romance that tells its unpretentious story believably, rarely trying to make its gag lines, of which there are many, upstage its narration or outshine its heart."

 The New York Times

"A warm and loving addition to the growing body of Jewish dramatic work in this country."

 Jewish Post and Opinion

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 3F

  • BUBBIE - A feisty, sharp-witted woman in her eighties, who immigrated to the United States as a young girl and has lived ever since in the shrinking community of New York City known as the lower east side.

  • ISABELLE - "Izzy" Grossman, her granddaughter, in her late twenties, a bookish dreamer.

  • HANNAH - A very large woman in her fifties, a professional matchmaker, a wheeler-dealer.

  • TYLER - A well-known writer of fiction, handsome, exceedingly charming and self-involved, in his early forties.

  • SAM - A pickleman and a poet, an inhabitant of the lower east side, in his early thirties, gentle, intuitive, appealing, and very wise for his years.

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    Isabelle is a modern young woman who lives alone and works in a book shop. When she is not pining after a handsome author, she is visiting her grandmother (Bubbie) in Manhattan's Lower East Side.

    This irascible granny and her friend the matchmaker have found a "good catch" for Isabel, whose initial reluctance gives way to a blossoming romance when she finally meets Sam, the pickle vendor as the end of the play offers a new beginning.

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