{"product_id":"avec-schmaltz-mart-crowley-9780573600760","title":"Avec Schmaltz","description":"ComedyCharacters: 4 male 3 femaleThis two-act comedic collision seems at first like a straightforward romp about marital grumblings. But there are all sorts of surprising complexities in the failed marriage of Kit the WASP flame-haired rich girl and Manny the wry wise-cracking Jewish TV composer which has produced two precocious sassy children and a situation in which the ex-wife and the ex-husband can't seem to live with each other or without each other.'Avec Schmaltz' (a phrase European musicians would ironically use to instruct violinists how to emotionally heat-up their romantic string passages) is about this devoted divorced couple their new partners and their two glib offspring at holiday time. It moves from a Currier and Ives winter wonderland of Christmas Eve in Connecticut to a New Year's Eve in sun-drenched Beverly Hills California. It concerns the ex-marital couple their lovers and would-be-lovers entering and exiting in a farcical light-hearted but dead-serious comedy in two acts. There is no facile resolution to the question of \"will-they-or-won't-they?\" get back together. Rather there is the emotional vitality of people clinging to what relational lifeboats they are tossed in the buoyant excursion called life!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mart Crowley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0573600767\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780573600760\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Concord Theatricals\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.21d","brand":"Mart Crowley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46052176363775,"sku":"9780573600760","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9c2eb105-675f-4cd8-84b5-64ecd2a18b73.jpg?v=1723555559","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/avec-schmaltz-mart-crowley-9780573600760","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}