THE KING OF SECOND AVENUE
based on "THE KING OF SCHNORRERS" by Israel Zangwill
book & lyrics by Robert Brustein
music by Hankus Netsky
directed by Matthew 'Motl' Didner
choreographed by Merete Muenter

Charles Mosesian Theater
Now through March 8!
Check www.newrep.org for show dates and times.

Robert Brustein’s THE KING OF SECOND AVENUE is a new musical with a lively klezmer score by composer Hankus Netsky. This world premiere comedy features a Romeo and Juliet love story set against the background of antagonistic Jewish sects in the Lower East Side of 1960s Manhattan. A wily Sephardic actor named Da Costa, now down on his luck, dupes Joseph E. Lapidus, a wealthy Hollywood producer, out of his clothes, money, groceries, and self-respect. All the while Da Costa’s lovely daughter Dolores is courted by both one of her father’s beggar companions and Lapidus’ ill-mannered son. THE KING OF SECOND AVENUE is a hilarious sequence of con-games, swindlings, and the search for true love.