A Comedy of Dreams

Everyone has a dream. For Giacomo Pasquale, the new don of a Brooklyn mob, it is to restore the financial glory of his gang by going into new businesses. For Pasquale’s disinherited gay son, Angel, it is to see his lover, Brice, starring on Broadway. For Mort Apple, a down-on-his luck theater producer, it is to have a shot at making enough money that he won’t starve to death in his old age. For Pasquale’s wife, Carmina, and mother-in-law, Nonni, it is to save the blighted church where they have been parishioners for decades. For Father Paulie, it is to show his uncle, Bishop Bigotti, just how much a can-do priest can accomplish. For the beautiful but embittered Immaculata it is to be the first female in Pasquale’s mob. Toss in a shrink who won’t stop talking, a 400 pound self-smitten mobster wannabe, a rabbi looking for a convert and a gang that is dead set against letting go of their old ways and it will take a miracle to make these dreams come true. A miracle which just might be on its way