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By John Patrick Shanley

Directed by Maurizio Giammarco

Huey Maximillian Bonfigliano has a problem: While he is safely divorced from his volatile first wife, Janice, he feels he cannot regain his identity as a man until he courts and wins her one more time—if only to put his broken marriage behind him once and for all. He enlists the aid of a lifelong friend, Aldo Scalicki, a confirmed bachelor who tries, without apparent success, to convince Huey that he would be better off staying with his new girlfriend, Teresa, a waitress whose indignation flares when she leans what Huey is up to. In a moonlit balcony scene (hilariously reminiscent of Cyrano de Bergerac), Aldo pleads his lovesick friend’s case and, to his astonishment, Janice succumbs—although not for long. What follows is a series of comic, surprising, and poignant developments in which characters come to learn, in the words of one of them, “the greatest—and only—success is to be able to love”--a truth which emerges from this heartwarming, funny play.