Frizzi Lazzi Italian Funerals

IItalian Funerals and Other Festive Occasions

Emelise gives life to the character of Aunt Mary Masiello, a Sicilian-American who enjoys the best that life has to offer, possesses a gtreat sense of humor and loves her family and her jewelry, in that order. John Miranda's comedy-drama, Italian Funerals and Other Festive Occasions, played at the prestigious Walnut Street Theatre Mainstage in Philadelphia, America's oldest theatre and a National landmark. This life affirming play explores the colorful experiences of a large Italian-American family. The picture shows Aunt Mary regaling her young nephew with a particularly grisly episode from The Lives of the Saints.