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Don Imbroglio is a side-splitting music-theatre experience not to be missed. Laughter and singing, opera and family, love and pastry, and a requiem for a dead cat... all together in this user-friendly musical farce.
Peter Hilliard, composer Matt Boresi, librettist
Synopsis Don Imbroglio is a mafia don with problems. The FBI and IRS have cracked down on his front organization, the non-existent Staten Island Grand Opera, and if he doesn't produce an opera quickly, the entire family will go to jail. Meanwhile, the Don's collegiate soprano daughter Angelica brings her hapless tenor boyfriend home for the first time to attend the wedding of the Don's temperamental son, Dante, who himself has his hands full with his hot-blooded wife, Donna, and his broken-hearted mistress, Chastity, as the lecherous family consiglieri, Lascivo, guns for a piece of the action any way he can get it. All this while an anti-defamation league protests the family for being a poor representation of Italian-Americans.
After an evening of gun-play, word-play, poisoned cannoli, slammed doors, and whacked cats, the Imbroglio crew decides to produce an opera buffa, Pietro Fiasco's "La Cosa Nostra", performed in Italian with super-titles written by a "friend of the family"... but will they off this one last job? What about their enemies? What about the press? The tax men, the feds, the State's Attorney, Opera News, and PBS?
Personaggi Don Imbroglio - mob boss, opera impresario Baritone Angelica Imbroglio - his daughter Soprano Donna - the new bride of... Soprano Dante - licentious son of the don Tenore Cesar - hapless tenor Tenore Chastity - Dante's goumada Mezzo Soprano Lascivo - the family consigliere Baritono Joey "No Name" Nero - button man Basso Profundo Figaro - a cat Muto
Protestors, Federal Agents Coro
Running time: 2 hours, 15 minutes (with intermission)
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