Isaiah Sheffer

After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.

A tender showbiz saga about an aging Borscht Belter who passes the mantle to a younger comic who is about to get his big break. Offbeat and kitsch, with a striking six-foot blond chanteuse and a great stand-up sequence in The Persian Room at The Pines. Existentialism lives in the Catskills!

There are people who think it is more important to choose a philosophical side or team and to stick to its fundamentals, rather than allow free thinking and debate.