Ballroom


Event Details

This event finished on 11 May 2019


by Jerome Kass

Directed by Duncan Morrison

May 3-5 & 8-12, 2019

Fri & Sat @ 8:00 PM / Wed & Thu @ 7:30 PM / Sun @ 2:30 PM

Based on the CBS television movie The Queen of the Stardust Ballroom which starred Maureen Stapleton as aging widow Bea Asher who, having lost her beloved Morrie, begins life anew at the Stardust Ballroom, an old school Brooklyn dance palace. There she meets middle-aged mailman Al and falls in love again. He’s married. Bea’s children and friends advise her against starting up a romance with a married man who refuses to leave his wife but Bea, having found a new life and love decides that “fifty percent” of someone you love is better than “all of anybody else”.