By David J. Glenn
It definitely didn't happen March 25, but maybe it will April 22.
That's when Mitchell Glazer of Little Neck, “49 and 3/4” years old, presents another performance of his original one-man show, “It's Definitely Going to Happen – Maybe” at the New York Comedy Club in Manhattan – the venue where Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, and other now-stars got their feet wet in stand-up.
In the show, Glazer sums up his life in Queens and Manhattan as a divorced single in an hour of song, comedy, and woe.
What does he hope will definitely happen, maybe? “To sing in a tuxedo before an appreciative audience,” he declares. Although he never donned a tuxedo last Sunday, the audience – about 40 filling up the tiny theater space at the club on 24th Street between 2nd and 3rd avenues – was definitely, not maybe, appreciative. When Glazer, still recuperating from the divorce that his wife of 17 years demanded five years ago, described being interrogated by dates now that he's returned, hardly victorious, to the dating scene, several in the audience could be heard saying things like, “Now that's true,” or “Yeah, I've been there.”
Glazer is considering changing the billing of his show from “musical comedy” to something more like “musical comedy-drama,” since he spends a good portion of the show lamenting his divorce and relating how miserable he is as an almost-50 single. Many in the audience began to genuinely feel sorry for him, especially when he sang a few Sinatra ballads.
Will he eventually meet someone and get married again, as he very much wants to do?
Definitely – maybe.
Reach Qguide Editor David Glenn by e-mail at glenn@timesledger.com, or call 229-0300, Ext. 139.
