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Not an 'Affair' to Remember

Based on a 1956 film with Bette Davis and Ernst Borgnine, "A Catered Affair" centers on an Irish-American Bronx family that must decide whether to spend its savings on a new family business or to launch their only daughter's marriage with an expensive, lavish catered affair.

It will obviously be compared with "The Light in the Piazza," another romantic chamber piece about a frustrated mother...

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