With different characters, plot and sub-plots, this play, once called TooTooTootsie, makes extended and more serious fun of the 1982 movie TOOTSIE.
The main plot concerns a wildly ambitious stage actor who, due to a nomination for best supporting actor in his only movie role, confronts stardom in a movie business, which may not be big enough for his very own self.
Uncle Sammy establishes a genre of its own by artfully combining a variety of expressive styles and techniques. It is positively purposeful. Consider the odd English language expression used to express an optimistic attitude: "I see the glass as half-full." Uncle Sammy's scope sees the bigger picture. To use the glass or cup or container imagery: Uncle Sammy sees the glass as a cup that overflows and wants to keep overflowing.
It is intended to have educational value and make good first impressions -one way or another or others- as well as to be fun, harmless glimpses at some aspects of human nature; we are all such interesting and varied characters with the divine light of The Ineffable in common to help us accomplish work that benefits others, beyond our individual quirks and selfish-interests. That's life. And, Theater.
