Mulberry Street
Production Team:
Producer: Lou Ursone
Director: Albert Pia
Production Design: Peter Barbieri, Jr.
Stage Manager: Carole Claps
Assistant Stage Manager: Karen Manion
Costumes: Helen Adams
Costume Assistant- Karen Manion
Assistant Stage Manager/ Light Operator- Rhegie Herring
Props Mistress- Betty West
Written in 1927 by Nicholas Cosentino, the earliest Stamford production (we know of) was in 1939. Since then, the play has been adapted by former Kweskin Theatre Artistic Director, Albert Pia, and was produced every five years, in various locations throughout Stamford, until finding its home at The Sterling Farms Theatre Complex, in the early 1970’s. One production of it even transferred to an off-off Broadway theatre in the early 1980’s, where it played for a summer.
The story revolves around an immigrant family, living in a basement apartment on Mulberry Street, Little Italy, New York, in the 1930’s and features a son, trying to woo a “Park Avenue” girl, a daughter looking for a husband, a bunch of crazy neighbors and a mother & father trying to hold it all together in their own dysfunctional way! Full of laughs and a few poignant moments as well, Mulberry Street is great for the whole family.
Cast:
Names in red denote Curtain Call debut/
Lucia Morello- Vincenza Salvatore
Piccino Morello- Lou Ursone
Katrinka von Kukla- Teressa Bur
Tony Spumonzi- Steven Michael Joseph Kelly
Nina Baccolini- Dana DiCerto
Marie Morello- Darcy Lyons
Filippo Morello- David Harris
Carmella Baccolini- Virginia Lity
Giovanna Baccolini- Aimee Cook
Angelo Baccolini- Randy Bucknoff
Helen Richards- Linda Gilmore
George Callahan- Anthony Scire