Dollface January 8, 2011

The tale is set near Utopia Parkway, Queens on Christmas, 1956. Dolores "Dollface" Zuckerman, has enrolled in a matchbook cover television comedy correspondence course. The best jobs she can get are an old age home and the local nightspot Club Rub a Dub Dub. All she wants from life is to tell her funny jokes on TV and to wed her boyfriend (a handsome gentile gym instructor, never mind that he's a bit of a mama's boy). Instead, she becomes an unwitting tool of a jeweler's plot to rob his own store. By luck, pluck and a well-timed you-know-what, Dolores manages to outsmart the double-crossing jewel thieves and even gets her man. It's a traditional book musical, slightly ribald by the standards of the period in which it's set, and filled with authentic outer-borough types. Its music ranges from authentic Rock 'n' Roll to Samba, Mambo, Pop Ballads, Rhythm & Blues and Patter.