A man in blue, a man with a yellow cab, and a man who got married in kilt walk into a bar and…
Find the punchline and many more jokes during A Cop, A Cabbie, and A Crusader at the Greek Cultural Center on Saturday, April 12, at 5 pm.
This play, which mixes comedy with camaraderie, tragedy, and unique views on life, stars Al Gonzalez, a retired NYPD officer, John McDonagh, who drove a taxi for 40 years, and Brendan Fay, an Irish lad who helped found Sunnyside’s St. Pat’s For All Parade.
General admission is $20.
The crowd can expect storytelling. Lot’s of storytelling. Gonzales spent much of his career in the 40th Precinct in the Bronx. Plus, he worked as a bodyguard for Frank Sinatra. And he’s a bagpiper extraordinaire who once performed for Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
McDonagh, who’s known as the “Bard of Gridlock,” is no stranger to the stage. He has a radio show on WBAI. He does stand-up. And he’s already performed his one-man biographical play Off the Meter, On the Record at the Greek Cultural Center.
Then there’s Fay, who makes films, officiates weddings, and advocates for the LGBTQ community and other causes. His marriage to Dr. Tom Moulton in Canada in 2003 was one of the first bi-national gay weddings and the subject of a documentary that ran on Irish television. (Same sex marriages were illegal in the United States and the Emerald Isle then.)
Located at 26-80 30th St. in Astoria, the Greek Cultural Center presents dance, film, music, theater, and workshops to promote and preserve Helenic culture and language. The nonprofit, which launched in 1974, also breaks from that tradition with works about NYC’s fabric like A Cap, A Cabbie, and A Crusader.
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