{"product_id":"italian-american-reconciliation-9780822205791","title":"Italian American Reconciliation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE STORY:\u003c\/b\u003e Huey Maximilian Bonfigliano has a problem: While he is safely divorced from his shrewish first wife, Janice, who shot his dog and even took a bead on him, he feels he cannot regain his \"manhood\" until he woos and wins her one more time - if only to put his broken marriage behind him once and for all. He enlists the aid of his lifelong buddy, Aldo Scalicki, a confirmed bachelor who tries, without apparent success, to convince Huey that he would be better off sticking with his new lady friend, Teresa, a usually placid young waitress whose indignation flares when she learns what Huey is up to. In a moonlit balcony scene (hilariously reminiscent of Cyrano de Bergerac) Aldo pleads his lovesick friend's case and, to his astonishment, Janice capitulates - although not for long. However we do learn that her earlier abuse of Huey was intended to make him \"act like a man\" which, at last, he does. And, more than that, he (and the audience) become aware that, in the final essence, \"the greatest - and only - success is to be able to love\" - a truth which emerges delightfully from the heartwarming, wonderfully antic and always imaginatively conceived action of the play.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fanciful, lighthearted and zestfully comic exploration of male\/female relationships, and the sometimes unsettling (and very funny) complications that can ensue. An award-winning success in its initial production in Los Angeles, the play was subsequently presented by New York's famed Manhattan Theatre Club as well. \"He writes wonderful Runyonesque dialogue - a sort of gritty, downtown version of sparkling drawing-room comedy - and highly rhetorical speeches that are fun to hear, because actors love to perform them.\"  - The New Yorker. \"Ultimately Shanley is telling us a tall tale but he does it with so much humor, so much winsome charm that it is almost irresistible.\"  - NY Daily News. \"bathed in the same moonlit madness that gave his \u003ci\u003eMoonstruck\u003c\/i\u003e screenplay its savor and flavorA lovely play.\"  - NY Post.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003ePublisher\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eDramatists Play Service Inc.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eFormat\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003ePlay\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eBinding\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eSoftcover\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eISBN\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003e9780822205791\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eStock code\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003e9780822205791\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn-store pickup available. Please allow 2–5 business days. We’ll notify you when your order is ready to collect.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dramatists Play Service Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46352327704620,"sku":"PRINT-9780822205791","price":22.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2970\/9956\/files\/italian-american-reconciliation-9780822205791.jpg?v=1791503716","url":"https:\/\/roycemusic.com.au\/products\/italian-american-reconciliation-9780822205791","provider":"roycemusic","version":"1.0","type":"link"}