"The Faithful Remnant on Earth, in Purgatory, in Heaven" Six lifelong friends, now in their 60's, meet in the basement of Mulcahy's Funeral Parlor in the Savin Hill section of Dorchester, an inner city suburb of Boston. They have just attended the wake upstairs of their boyhood friend, Arthur "AW" O'Malley. "AW" had cerebral palsy all his life. The six men are: Peter "Quarter To Two" Fignatti - a retired "bookie" or numerologist. Mike "Mucka" Lydon - a retired line worker from Boston Edison. Charles "Three Balls" Cahill - a state senator, still active. George "Giraffe" Geoghan - a retired...
"The Faithful Remnant on Earth, in Purgatory, in Heaven" Six lifelong friends, now in their 60's, meet in the basement of Mulcahy's Funeral Parlor in ...
A warm, witty tell-all and history of American regional theater, from one of our best-loved directors
For Jack O'Brien, there's nothing like a first encounter with a great performer, nothing like the sound of an audience bursting into applause. In short, there's nothing like the theater. Following a fairly normal Midwestern childhood, O'Brien hoped to make his mark by writing lyrics for Broadway but was instead pulled into the growing American regional theater movement by the likes of John Houseman, Helen Hayes, Ellis Rabb, and Eva Le Gallienne. He didn't...
A warm, witty tell-all and history of American regional theater, from one of our best-loved directors
