RAISE ME UP

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Do you believe in love at first sight?    Soul mates?   Eternal love? 
​When the final curtain falls, you'll believe.

 

This is a true story about a “moonstruck” couple’s forbidden love, the hilarity and drama from their deeply passionate Italian-Greek families, and how they spent their last day on Earth together. 

 

It’s the limited return engagement of RAISE ME UP, Lisa Phillips Visca’s joyful and touching tribute to her parents, Louis and Daphne Padula, capturing their eternal passion and the surreal ending to their classic love story. RAISE ME UP will lift your spirits and touch your soul. 

 


Come to Staten Island circa 1950, where Daphne Theofanous and Louis Padula meet, fall in love, and struggle to balance their love of family, and each other, fighting against the older generation and parents still anchored in traditional ethnic, nationalistic, economic and religious divisions, and to share their lives with a partner of their own choosing.


 


Featuring:



  • Marla Adams(The Young and the Restless; The President’s Man; Jerry Mayer’s You Haven’t Changed A Bit and Other Lies)

  • George Eddington III (Fleece, Climax, The Gift)

  • Albina Katsman (Innocent, Cheaters, Piper the Movie)

  • Barbara Keegan* (NCIS: Los Angeles, Saving Mr. Banks, Almost Perfect, Emmy-award winner)

  • Mike C. Manning (Disney’s Cloud 9, I Do, Major Crimes, Climax)

  • Dennis Michael* (Raid on Entebbe, Two Minute Warning, Turning Thirty)

  • Stuart Pankin* (Not Necessarily the News; Fatal Attraction; The Artist; Desperate Housewives; Tartuffe; Sly Fox)

  • Evelyn Rudie* (Audition: The Musical; Funny, You Don’t Look Like A Grandmother; Author! Author! – an evening with Sholom Aleichem)




 



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Santa Monica Playhouse® 1211 4th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90401
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