The Marriage of Tony Figs
By C.J. Spataro
At her own engagement party, Susanna is cornered by her handsy boss Sal, owner of the Café Momus, a singing waiter restaurant in South Philadelphia. Its bartender, her fiancé Tony Figs, would rather keep the peace. But Susanna and Sal’s long-suffering wife Regina have other ideas, and by wedding day the whole crew of aria-belting waiters has been swept into a scheme to teach Sal a lesson once and for all.
The Marriage of Tony Figs, a contemporary adaptation of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, is an effervescent celebration of the joys and tribulations of opera and song, of Philadelphia, and especially of the often abused but ultimately triumphant power of love.
C.J. Spataro is an award-winning short fiction writer whose work has appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies, including Taboos & Transgressions, Iron Horse Literary Review, december, Phantom Drift, and Exacting Clam. She lives in Philadelphia, where she directs the MFA in Creative Writing and the MA in Publishing programs at Rosemont College and is a founding partner of Philadelphia Stories. More at cjspataro.com.