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...that is all the setup that accompanies Joey and Maria’s Comedy Italian Wedding, the long running dinner-theater spectacle which reopened last month at downtown Boston’s Tremont Playhouse. And although its sister production, The Soprano’s Last Supper, mines much the same material for laughs, each show manages to stand on its own and win laughs as a thorough and tremendously funny send-up of, and tribute to, the absurd pop culture depiction of Italian-Americans...
With a cast of characters whose last names are all some variety of pasta, Joey and Maria’s cannot boast subtlety as its strong suit. The various grandmothers are overbearing figures; both bride and groom have ties to the mob; the bridesmaids smoke and wheeze while delivering speeches that tastelessly explore the bride’s purity...
...wedding itself is a brief procedure, with vows short and to the point. (“Maria, I love you’s, I adoh-wa you’s,” Joey intones vacantly, at which point his funereally-clad mother-in-law bitterly screams, “And you believe him?”) The show breaks briefly while the audience joins a buffet line near the edge of the bar, but even there, no one is safe from harassment. An audience member who declined to eat ziti noodles topped with meat sauce instantly drew...
...Joey really just passed a great ball,” Moore said. “It was just me and the goalie. I was really just thinking ‘Don’t blow...
After striking just three minutes into the game, the Terrier defense slowed Harvard for over half the period, but with 16:45 remaining in the first half, junior forward Joey Yenne scored on an pass from junior midfielder Orly Ripmaster to give Harvard a 2-0 advantage...