Directed by the playwright, the cast will feature Ralph Macchio and Mario Cantone with Colin Critchley, Gina Ferranti, Kendra Jain and Johnny Tammaro.

Messina’s semi-autobiographical comedy, according to press notes, "revolves around a writer’s story of growing up in his wacky Italian-American family living in a small tenement apartment in late 1970s Greenwich Village. Following in the grand tradition of playwrights like Neil Simon, who used their own early family lives as inspiration to create indelible and uniquely American Broadway hits, Messina has crafted a feel-good, warm-hearted adult comedy with huge laughs and a big heart."

Producers Bruce Robert Harris and Jack W. Batman have assembled a creative team — including Michael Hotopp (set), Amy Jacobs (general manager, Bespoke Theatricals) and Michael Cassara (Cassara Casting) — to begin the process of bringing the play to Broadway in the near future.