John Patrick Shanley’s
popular concert-play about life and love among New York City’s
working class.
On the defining night
of their lives, at the lackluster Scales bar in the Bronx, fate
has rear-ended Denise Savage and Linda Rotunda. Denise, a turbulent
social outcast, is desperate to escape her television, her mother,
and herself. Linda, bereft over a boyfriend who has dumped her
to date “Ugly Women,” has stumbled in to sob into
a cocktail. The two become fast friends, until boyfriend, Tony
Aronica, appears and the women turn nasty. As all hell breaks
loose, the fire is fanned by the humorless bartender Murk and
April White, the resident lush.
