Lisa Phillips Visca’s RAISE ME UP – a true story about a “moonstruck†couple’s forbidden love, the hilarity and drama from their deeply passionate Italian-Greek families, and how they spent their last day on Earth together.
Set in Staten Island in the early 1950’s, RAISE ME UP reflects the post-war optimism of the generation’s youth, and how two of its members, the author’s parents, Louis and Daphne Padula, overcame the older generation’s traditional ethnic, nationalistic, economic, and religious divisions when they fell in love at first sight.
Do you believe in love at first sight? Do you believe in soul mates? Do you believe in eternal love? By the time the final curtain falls, you’ll believe even if you don’t already.
RAISE ME UP features stage and screen personalitie
s Marla Adams (The Young and the Restless; The President’s Man; A Little Night Music), John Del Regno (Born on the 4th of July; Joan of Arcadia, Without a Trace), Serena Dolinsky (Moliere’s The Fools; Moonlight Madness; Love in Bloom), Ben Feuer (All God’s Creatures; Murder by the Book; Of Mice and Men), Mitch Lerner (40 Days and Nights; Super Cyclone; The Big Douche Chill), and others.
Santa Monica Playhouse is supported in part by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and by the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission and by the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission.
For tickets: [$25 general admission; $22.50 students, teachers, seniors, members of the military; $17.50 for groups of 8 or more;
$15 for under 12’s. Previews March 1 thru 22 – all seats $15 – no further discounts}: www.santamonicaplayhouse.com
