Anna Nicole invitation
Xoregos Performing Company cordially invites you to the reading of
Grace Cavalieri’s new play
ANNA NICOLE: BLONDE AMBITION
Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 2:00 PM at Roy Arias Theaters
300 West 43 Street/elevator to the Fifth Floor (West of 8 Avenue)
The reading is free and the building is wheelchair accessible. Ms. Cavalieri will be present
Please RSVP by March 24 to reserve a seat(s) as the theater is small.
MARY RILEY as Anna Nicole Smith *WILLIAM BECKWITH, DANIEL BROADHURST,
MICHAEL EISENSTEIN, REAGAN PORTER & AMANDA ELIZABETH SAWYER
*member AEA
Hair/makeup consultant: Sarah Hindsgaul:Portrait by Holly Picano
Directed by SHELA XOREGOS
ANNA NICOLE: BLONDE AMBITION by Grace Cavalieri will have its reading March 26, 2011 2:00 PM in Times Square area. Free. RSVP. 212-239-8405 or e-mail: xoregos@gmail.com
Summer: ANTIGONE by Sophocles various locals, indoor and al fresco July 23-August 14. Complete schedule in May.
Website: www.xoregos.com 212-239-8405
Tomato Pies, 25 Cents by Grace Cavalieri : American Life in Poetry
In Iowa in the 1950’s, when we at last heard about pizza, my mother decided to make one for us. She rolled out bread dough, put catsup on it, and baked it. Voila! Pizza! And inexpensive, too. Here’s Grace Cavalieri, a poet and playwright who lives in Maryland, serving something similar and undoubtedly better.
Tomato Pies, 25 Cents
Tomato pies are what we called them, those days,
before Pizza came in,
at my Grandmother’s restaurant,
in Trenton New Jersey.
My grandfather is rolling meatballs
in the back. He studied to be a priest in Sicily but
saved his sister Maggie from marrying a bad guy
by coming to America.
Uncle Joey is rolling dough and spooning sauce.
Uncle Joey, is always scrubbed clean,
sobered up, in a white starched shirt, after
cops delivered him home just hours before.
The waitresses are helping
themselves to handfuls of cash out of the drawer,
playing the numbers with Moon Mullin
and Shad, sent in from Broad Street. 1942,
tomato pies with cheese, 25 cents.
With anchovies, large, 50 cents.
A whole dinner is 60 cents (before 6 pm).
How the soldiers, bussed in from Fort Dix,
would stand outside all the way down Warren Street,
waiting for this new taste treat,
young guys in uniform,
lined up and laughing, learning Italian,
before being shipped out to fight the last great war.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2010 by Grace Cavalieri from her most recent book of poetry, Sounds Like Something I Would Say, Goss 183 Casa Menendez, 2010. Reprinted by permission of Grace Cavalieri and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2009 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
via Tomato Pies, 25 Cents by Grace Cavalieri : American Life in Poetry.
