THEATRE + COMEDY

The Grand 1894 Opera House presents Steve Solomon:  My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish & I'm STILL in Therapy, Saturday, October 16, 2010, at 8pm.

From Steve Solomon, star and creator of the hit Broadway smash: My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m in Therapy,  the chaos continues in: My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m STILL in Therapy. Steve Solomon explores the wacky side of the human condition with the latest chapter of his family saga. Return with Steve and his twin sister to their baby days, filled with a collection of unforgettable uncles (including his new therapist, Cousin Sal!) and other astounding characters, brought to life by Steve’s gift for creating voice dialects and wacky sound effects.

Variety says “Steve is Alan King, Billy Crystal, a smidgen of Don Rickles and George Carlin all thrown in;” while WOR Radio calls the show “an hour and a half of laughter, hysterically funny!”

In this hysterical prequel, we go back with Steve from his baby years with his twin sister right up to the present. We’ll meet: Uncle Willie, Stuttering Cousin Bob, Demented Cousin Kenny, Steve’s new therapist, Cousin Sal (and Sal’s parole officer) and a myriad of astounding characters we know, love and tolerate from our own families; each one brought to life on stage by Steve using his gift that only adds to the hilarity of each story.

Steve has taken the art of impersonation and honed it into a science. He masterfully weaves different dialects, crazy characters, and wacky sound effects into his stories. Also included in the show are musical interludes that showcase even more of Steve’s talents. The tales take on a life of their own as Steve recounts memorable moments from his past and makes hysterical observations on timely topics.

A native of Brooklyn, Steve grew up in the multi-ethnic neighborhood of Sheepshead Bay. This was the perfect training ground for a dialectician. As the class clown and as a very authentic sounding Chinese restaurant delivery boy, Steve learned at an early age how to use his gift for imitating accents to his advantage.

In college, Steve dabbled in entertaining by emceeing events, but it was not until years later that he would pursue that ambition. Instead, he earned a doctorate in education and taught high school physics.

Using humor, dialects and sound effects in teaching, Steve was a real life version of Gabe Kaplan’s “Welcome Back Kotter.” Eventually, Steve became Assistant to the Superintendent of Schools on Long Island, New York. He also discovered he had an incredible aptitude for business.

He left this tremendous academic and business success behind and turned his attention to his latent love of making people laugh. As Steve puts it, “I was sick and tired of the regular pay-checks, the prestige and the educational glamour of an Administrator’s life so I decided to get on the road and make 30 dollars a show.”

Steve’s rise in the entertainment industry has been just as meteoric as his success in the business world. He has broken booking records by appearing at more locations, by popular demand, in a shorter period of time than any other comic.

“Still in Therapy” is his next hilarious installment in his quest to defend himself against those people whose sole purpose in life is to add chaos to his. It’s a laugh-filled fest of everybody you know, have known and some you’d want to forget but can’t; all brought to life on stage by the comic magic of Steve Solomon. Just when you thought it was safe to go back home for the Holidays....Steve brings us this new masterpiece of family dysfunction. So prepare to laugh, prepare to cry and prepare to be delighted with “My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m STILL in Therapy.”