The Ritz / by Terrence McNally.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McNally, Terrence.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay bathhouses--New York (State)--New York--Drama.

Gay bathhouses.

Entertainers--New York (State)--New York--Drama.

Entertainers.

American drama.

Drama--20th century.

Drama.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Drama.

Black humor (Literature)

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

61 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

[Book Club edition].

Place of Publication:

Garden City, N.Y. : Nelson Doubleday, [1976]

Summary:

"Gaetano Proclo, a minor mob flunky who's been targeted for elimination by his brother-in-law, Carmine Vespucci. Gaetano takes refuge in what he thinks is a Turkish bath. Actually, it's a gay bathhouse (this is the pre-AIDS era), where the exquisitely awful Googie Gomez entertains the homosexual patrons with her ear-splitting renditions of such show tunes as "Everything's Coming Up Roses." Hoping to save his neck by pretending to be gay, Gaetano effusively praises Googie. Assuming that he is a big-time Broadway producer, she plays up to him. Everything would be hunky-dory, except that the bathhouse is owned by the very mob that has put a contract on Gaetano. What follows is an old-fashioned door-slamming farce, except that there are no doors to slam."--Www.allmovie.com.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

OCLC:

2617355