Rita Lakin

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13-Jul-2005

If you loved Gladdy in GETTING OLD IS MURDER, then you'll also love Jennie.

Jennie appears in a comedy-musical called SATURDAY NIGHT AT GROSSINGERS.

It's the story of the famous hotel maven, Jennie Grossinger, who changed the course of history with her famous hotel in the Catskills.

This show has just finished a long, very successful run at Theater West in Los Angeles and is now about to go south and entertain the denizens of the Ft.Lauderdale area.

Starring Barbara Minkus and Barry Pearl.

Conceived by Rita Lakin & Doris Silverton
Composer: Claibe Richardson
Book & Lyrics Stephen Cole
Lyrics also by Ronny Graham

TRY IT YOU'LL LIKE IT!!!

STAGE DOOR'S 26TH STREET THEATRE
FT. LAUDERDALE (WILTON MANORS)
OPENING DECEMBER 7TH.

TEACHING NEWS:

I will mostlikely teach my Screenwriting Course at Book Passage, once again, in the spring. Look for it. All you ever wanted to know about writing and maybe selling a script.

Selected Works

The 5th in the Gladdy Gold Comedy Mysteries

Getting Old Is A Disaster
A hurricane hits Ft. Lauderdale and a dead body shows up from the past.

Fiction

Getting Old Is To Die For
Gladdy, Jack, and the girls all go to NY

Getting Old Is Criminal
Jack goes missing and Gladdy has to deal with her true feelings. Through tears and all Gladdy and her girls go on a brand new adventure, going undercover to find a killer at one of the richest retirement complexes of them all.

Getting Old Is The Best Revenge
The Further Adventures of the Oldest Living Private Eye in Florida, Gladdy Gold, and her Indomitable Girls.

Getting Old Is Murder
Meet Gladdy Gold, Florida’s Oldest Private Eye and her Merry Band of Octogenarians

Short Story collection

The Woman Who Hated The Bronx: A Short Story in "Bronx Noir"
One of the short stories in this new collection from Akashic Books publishing.