Page 20 - Boca Exposure - March '23

Page 20, Boca Exposure
Dysfunctional Comedy, Marty’s Back In Town,

Coming To The Studio Theater In Mizner Park

Shake many a family tree reacts. That’s the fire under this play – his return.” the production, along with Chris Cooper. Harold Petion is
and you’ll likely find the “Those things could have happened over many, many the production’s stage manager.
same nuts! years, or many, many months, or many, many days,” Shabel Brooklyn-born, successful New Jersey class-action
Marty’s Back in Town, continues. “And what I’ve done is, I’ve compressed these attorney-turned-author Norman Shabel has been driven to
Playwright Norman characters – their actions and their issues, their attributes, write ever since he can remember. By the time he was in
Shabel’s comedic drama their good things, their bad things, their hatreds, their fears his 20s, he had written several novels that ended up stuffed
about the ups and downs of – into an hour and a half or two hours, so the playgoer will in drawers as he launched his legal career, married, and
a dysfunctional family and know, this is the character, this is what he’s all about, this had a family. To date, Shabel has written seven plays and
their relationships with each is his life. And the difficult part, of course, is putting a eight novels, some written in longhand, hunched over his
other, and with the “black lifetime into an hour and a half or two hours. And I think desk while waiting for a jury verdict to come in, and all
sheep” who is returning that’s what I’ve done in Marty’s Back in Town!” dealing with either crime, relatable family dynamics, or
home after 10 years, will Shabel has tasked Seth Trucks with directing the both. Three of his plays have been produced Off-Broadway
be on stage at The Studio in Mizner Park from March 24 production, and Trucks has convened a stellar cast to bring in New York, Philadelphia, and in several theatres in south
through April 2, weekends only. Marty and his family to life: Florida.
Shabel, whose well-received courtroom drama, A Class James A. Skiba will play Marty, Ben Prayz will play his Marty’s Back in Town! at the Studio at Mizner Park
Act, had a successful run in Boca in 2022, admits to drawing brother Ronald, Francine Silvers will play his sister, Susan, on weekends only from March 24 through April 2.
on his own “true life” experiences to fashion this story: and Christine Chavers will play the family matriarch. Also Performances: Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday
“Marty’s really done things the family didn’t like over cast are Leslie Kandel, Blaine DeBerry, Emma Mcavoy, at 3 p.m. For tickets: https://tinyurl.com/28as53yp. Ticket
the years,” Shabel explains. “And now he thinks he’s dying, and Peter Galman, who will play the family patriarch, Sam. prices range from $25 to $45.
so he arrives ‘home’ with his wife … and it’s how the family Galman will also take on the role of assistant director for
My Son The Waiter: A Jewish Tragedy & Still Not Famous

To Run At Boca Theater March 22 And 23

Brad Zimmerman’s newest show, My Son the Waiter: Rivers for eight years, as well as for Brad Garrett and
A Jewish Tragedy & Still Not Famous, will make its south George Carlin. His first show, My Son the Waiter: A Jewish
Florida debut March 22 and 23 at the Boca Black Box Tragedy, has played throughout the United States for over
Center for the Arts. 10 years.
The poignant comedy is universal in its message: If “I have been working on this new show for about six
you embark upon the journey to follow your dream, and years,” Zimmerman explains. “It is not a hybrid as the
demonstrate the grit and passion required to “make it” as first piece was–which means half standup/half theatre.
an artist, the rewards that come from never giving up are This is more of a play. As the first one does, it chronicles
very much worth the “blood, sweat, and tears.” my journey, starting when I was very young, and takes the
Zimmerman moved to New York and “temporarily” audience right up to the present. But it is done in more of
worked as a waiter – for 29 years – while pursuing a play format. There is lots of humor, but also poignancy.
his career as an actor. Eventually he got a role on The
Sopranos and work as a comedian, opening for Joan Brad Zimmerman My Son The Waiter on page 21

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