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ASTORIA,
QUEENS –
a powerless new musical
Opening
night: August 4, 2006
Featuring the hit song:
"Stop the Heat"
BLACKOUT.
Things are heating up in Astoria, Queens. In a neighborhood full of different
cultures (50% Italian, 50% Greek, and 50% everyone else) it sometimes
takes a power outage to bring people out of their homes and into each
other's lives.
Pederino and Consuelito, his Italian Mama, do their part to keep things
cool in the neighborhood. But Consuelito wants her son to find a wife
and move out of the house once and for all... someone prettier and younger
than she. With so many of the women in the neighborhood already preheated,
finding a wife should be easy.
Unfortunately, Mr. Pedro Roccoco controls the power that feeds Queens,
and demands that Pederino use his charm to make sure that the residents
of Astoria "pay the price".
The pressure from his Mama and Mr. Roccoco drives Pederino into the arms
of a much older woman – Marybeth Strunk, the neighborhood's resident
octogenarian. A routine check of her 'broken' transformer really gets
Marybeth heated up – Pederino has found his wife.
Will Consuelito be happy with her son's choice? Will Mr. Roccoco use his
power wisely? Will his wife Trish pull the plug on his plans? Will Marybeth
ever need her walker again?
In the end we learn that "even in the dark, love lights the way."
LIGHTS UP.
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