Second Summer
by Gary Richards

Second Summer Book Cover
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Highlights

105 minsPresent DayStrong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)Interior SetContemporary Costumes/Street ClothesAmericanComedy

Synopsis

A good natured, affable man embittered by the death of his beloved wife reluctantly sells his business and home in Brooklyn and moves to Florida.

In what he thought would be "God's waiting room," he finds a world of new possibilities as single women his age flock to charm the new, available man.

This play by the author of Dividends is about the rebirth of an elderly man who finds that the long dormant teenager in himself still exists.

It celebrates the richness of the mature life experience in a warmhearted comedy that clearly demonstrates it's not how old you are, it's how you are old!

Press Reviews

"Gary Richards' 2002 comedy/drama gives us Reginald, a Brooklyn widower who tries to pull his life together by moving to a Florida condo complex for senior citizens. Smart move. It seems most of the residents there are widows eager for male companionship. The script is chock-full of interesting insights. This is a play about learning to reshape dreams, and it's difficult to not respond on some level."

— Las Vegas Review-Journal

Characters

Character
Dorris Cabella

60s-70s.

Ernie Cabella

60s-70s.

Sheila Haskett

60s-70s.

Bev Perkins

60s-70s.

Reginald Herring

60s-70s.

Publication

PublisherSamuel French
Year2002
BindingPaperback
Pages53
PlaceNew York
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-139780573629402
ISBN-100573629404
LCCN2007407517
LCCPS3568.I31527 S43 2002
DCC812/.54

Second Summer is a American comedy play written by Gary Richards and published by Samuel French in New York (2002).

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Samuel French · 2002 · 53 pp

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