Overview
The runaway hit, based on Moliere's 17th century French comedy that
originally took place in Naples, Italy has been rewritten and
re-imagined by Broadway veteran Jeffrey Binder as a mafia comedy now set
in the "dangerous streets" of sunny Naples, Fla. This physical comedy
is a blend of slapstick and doubletalk, combined with a hysterical mix
of political comedy and all-around satire. In this modern take, the dons
of two notorious mob families agree to avert a war between their
families by marrying off their children. Except (whoops!) one of their
kids has already secretly married the woman of his dreams and enlists
the mob's crafty but disgraced consigliere, Scapino, to get them out of
this deadly jam and reconcile the two families before they all whack
each other. Hilarity ensues.