Actress Antoinette LaVecchia Serves Up Love, Loss, and Spaghetti at George Street Playhouse

Mar 20, 2014 1194

By Iris Wiener

I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti gives new meaning to the term "dinner theater," as audiences at George Street Playhouse can now enjoy a comical, heartfelt, one-woman show while being served a meal made right in front of them — by the star herself. Antoinette LaVecchia (Broadway's recent A View From the Bridge) prepares a three-course Italian spread and serves it to lucky members of her audience while taking on the persona of Giulia Melucci, on whose memoir Spaghetti is based.

LaVecchia, who is reviving the role after having served up a success at Hartford's Theaterworks in 2012, gave TheaterMania a taste of the similarities between her and Melucci's love lives and Italian-American histories.

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