In 1969, more than fourdecades ago, the great happening was on a 600-acre dairy farm owned by MaxYasgur in the Catskill Mountains, near Bethel, New York when 500,000 flowerchildren celebrated Woodstock. Today, the festivities are much closer to home, on Wooster Street in NewHaven, and the locale is much smaller and more intimate, the garden patio ofConsiglio’s Restaurant, but the goal is the same: a festival of peace, music and fun: GarlicStock!
This summer you are onceagain invited to dine outdoors on Saturday evenings at 6 p.m., with a fewselect Sundays, until the weekend after Labor Day to welcome “The Return ofCount Fangula.” Penned by playwrightElizabeth Fuller, called the Queen of Spaghetti Musicals, the musical eveningis stuffed like manicotti with cheesy silliness.
Leave your inhibitions athome and sit back and simply enjoy the fun as Gary Cavello alternates personasas the devilishly sinister vampire Count Fangula, clad in black satin cape andtop hat, battles with his alter ego the purely heavenly Johnny Angel, completewith fluffy white wings.
The Aglio family, led byMama, is fighting the dastardly and dreaded garlic weevils that are threateningtheir crop of premiere garlic bulbs, their livelihood. Daughter Diana, thelovely Laura Papallo, is engaged to be married but is not certain Giovanni isthe right mate for her. When heradopted brother Tony Bob, a sincerely conflicted Michael Sayers, is knockedunconscious, he dreams he has forsaken his career as a hairdresser to pursuehis fantasy of being impresario of a three day Music Festivale calledGarlicStock.Don’t be worried if you’rehaving trouble following the plot as you’ll probably find yourself on stage aspart of the action, as a singing Frank Sinatra, a dancing weevil, a contestantin the beauty contest or Cupid with his hearts and arrows. The actors are so busy singing andhaving a hoot that you will too. Afew glasses of vino don’t hurt.
PJ Letersky provides all thegreat songs like “Diana,” “Stupid Cupid,” and “Volare” that you are invited tosing. Even the pizza makers atFrank Pepe’s next door get into the action. Gary Cavello directs this fun fest with fervor.
This is dinner theater andthe performance is preceded by a delicious feast of hot crusty garlic bread,Caesar salad, penne a la vodka, and chicken Francese on a bed of freshspinach. At intermission, the mealis completed with a sweet rum flavored tiramisu. All so good!
For reservations ($65), callConsiglio’s, 165 Wooster Street, New Haven at 203-865-4489 or online at www.consiglios.com.
Let Count Fangula and hisfriends welcome you to GarlicStock in Calabria, Italy where you can eat, sing,dance and laugh your way to a happily ever after ending. Mangia!
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