“On the boardwalk everything is small talk - Sarsaparilla, sex and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Coney Island.”
“Coney Island” is a nostalgic look at postwar America: where dreams are cheap, sauce is sacred, and a young man with a song can win the girl’s heart. It’s a love letter to Brooklyn, wrapped in dance and laced with danger.
Summer, 1946.
The war is over.
Boys are coming home. Coney Island is alive with possibility.
But beneath the sunshine and sideshow lights, a family-owned café is at the center of a changing neighborhood. Coney Island follows Frankie Renzi, a returning GI with a velvet voice, his streetwise younger brother Junior, and the women who shape them—each chasing love, ambition, and a place to belong.
From burlesque back rooms to the booming Boardwalk, the show blends romance, humor, trauma, and temptation with a big-hearted score and snappy period detail.
Songs woven through a hybrid of Jazz, Swing, Country, and Pop.
Book and Lyrics by Frank Cuthbert
Music by Frank Cuthbert and Manny Focarazzo