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directed by Matthew 'Motl' Didner
choreographed by Merete Muenter
Robert Brustein’s THE KING OF SECOND AVENUE is a new musical with a lively klezmer score by composer Hankus Netsky. This world premiere comedy features a Romeo and Juliet love story set against the background of antagonistic Jewish sects in the Lower East Side of 1960s Manhattan. A wily Sephardic actor named Da Costa, now down on his luck, dupes Joseph E. Lapidus, a wealthy Hollywood producer, out of his clothes, money, groceries, and self-respect. All the while Da Costa’s lovely daughter Dolores is courted by both one of her father’s beggar companions and Lapidus’ ill-mannered son. THE KING OF SECOND AVENUE is a hilarious sequence of con-games, swindlings, and the search for true love.
New Repertory Theatre’s production of THE KING OF SECOND AVENUE wishes to thank the following donors:
Lucy Beldock
Paul & Kate Buttenwieser
Greg Carr
Ted Cutler
Robert Davoli & Eileen MacDonough
Bill & Lydia Edison
Jon Flint
Alan Friedberg
George & Liz Krupp
Pearl & Paul Levey
Doug Liman
Steve Martin Charitable Foundation
Charlie Marz
The Sholley Foundation
Jerry Slavet
Ted & Mary Wendell
Co-sponsored by Lillian Sober Ain.
This production is dedicated to the memory of George Flint.