Cemetery Club

Title: Cemetery Club
Author: Menchell, Ivan
Price: $25.95

Three Jewish widows meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husband's graves. Ida is sweet tempered and ready to begin a new life, Lucille is a feisty embodiment of the girl who just wants to have fun, and Doris is priggish and judgmental, particularly when Sam the butcher enters the scene. He meets the widows while visiting his wife's grave. Doris and Lucille squash the budding romance between Sam and Ida. They are guilt stricken when this nearly breaks Ida's heart.

The Broadway production starred Eileen Heckart as Lucille. It was made into a film, starring Ellen Burstyn, Dianne Ladd, Olympia Dukkakis.

\"Funny, sweet tempered, moving.\" - Boston Globe
\"Very touching and humorous. An evening of pure pleasure that will make you glad you went to the theatre.\" -Washington Journal Newspapers

The Cemetery Club opened on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York City on May 12, 1990. This production was originally presented by Howard Hurst, Philip Rose, Sophie Hurst, and David Brown at the Kennedy Center for the Perfroming Arts in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 1990. It was directed by Pamela Berlin.


Full Length Play
Dramatic Comedy
Romantic Comedy
120 minutes (2 hours)
Time Period - Contemporary, Present Day
Settings Of Play - Mid-Autumn, the present. The living room of Ida's house and a cemetery in Forest Hills, Queens.

FEATURES / CONTAINS: Physical Comedy, Interior Set, Exterior Set, Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
TAGS: Aging, Death, Friendship, Jewish/Yiddish issues, Love, Marriage

CASTING: 1m, 4f
IDA
LUCILLE
DORIS
SAM
MILDRED

Ensemble cast, Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Parts for Senior Actors

All characters are in their late fifties to early sixties.

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780573692048
Publishing status: AU In Distributor In BN