Paradise Beach:

A Musical

Life is good at last for Nicolai (Nick), hard-working and hard-drinking house painter from Romania. It would be perfect if he could find a woman — not easy if you look rather bizarre and lose all gift of speech in female company. But his new-found friend Carlos, a smooth ladies’ man, knows a place where magic happens: Paradise Beach, a summer-long Latin street fair on an industrial avenue in the Bronx…. Life is precarious and scary for Anna, fresh out of jail and rehab, reunited with her 8-year-old daughter Kristina and her Brazilian friend and ex-jail mate Mona. How can she manage to stay straight … get a job … heal the wounds inflicted on herself and Kristina by drug addiction? The last thing she needs in her life is a drinking man…. At paradise Beach, these two needy people, Nick and Anna, meet — and fall in love, over the protests of their friends Mona and Carlos, and Anna’s little daughter Kristina. And other troubles and challenges are waiting for them. . . .