{"product_id":"9780573600760","title":"Avec Schmaltz","description":"Comedy\u003cp\u003eCharacters: 4 male, 3 female\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis two-act comedic collision seems, at first, like a straightforward romp about marital grumblings. But there are all sorts of surprising complexities in the failed marriage of Kit, the WASP flame-haired rich girl, and Manny, the wry, wise-cracking Jewish TV composer, which has produced two precocious, sassy children and a situation in which the ex-wife and the ex-husband can't seem to live with each other or without each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Avec Schmaltz' (a phrase European musicians would ironically use to instruct violinists how to emotionally heat-up their romantic string passages) is about this devoted divorced couple, their new partners, and their two glib offspring at holiday time. It moves from a Currier and Ives winter wonderland of Christmas Eve in Connecticut to a New Year's Eve in sun-drenched Beverly Hills, California. It concerns the ex-marital couple, their lovers, and would-be-lovers entering and exiting in a farcical, light-hearted, but dead-serious comedy in two acts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no facile resolution to the question of \"will-they-or-won't-they?\" get back together. Rather, there is the emotional vitality of people clinging to what relational lifeboats they are tossed in the buoyant excursion called life!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Samuel French, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063367287024,"sku":"9780573600760","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780573600760_p0.jpg?v=1763719809","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780573600760","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}