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The Art of the Oner and Mixing
by Mathew Price CAS
The
Marvelous
Mrs. Maisel
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, created
by Amy Sherman-Palladino (ASP) and
her husband Daniel Palladino, starts in
NYC in 1958. It follows the travails and
adventures of Miriam 'Midge' Maisel (the
extraordinary Rachel Brosnahan), a nice
Jewish housewife living a seemingly per-
fect life with her husband Joel (Michael
Zegen) and her two young children
in a fabulous pre-war six-bedroom
apartment on the Upper West Side
of Manhattan. After Joel confesses
to having an affair with his not-
so-bright secretary (on the eve of
Yom Kippur, no less), Midge, getting
drunker by the minute on super sweet
Manischewitz wine, finds herself back
at the Gaslight Café, the seedy down-
town comedy club where her soon-to-be
ex spectacularly bombed earlier in the
evening. There she delivers a profane and
hilarious confessional stand-up set and
catches the eye of Susie Myerson (Alex
Borstein, always hilarious) who realizes
she's seeing raw talent unlike any who's
played there before. A career is launched.
Hilarity ensues.
