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Crossing Delancey

Isabelle works for a New York bookstore which supports authors through public readings. When the author Tyler comes to the bookstore to give such a reading, he shows an interest in Isabelle who is enamored with the intellectual world that is very different from her traditional Jewish upbringing.

Isabelle pays frequent visits to her Bubbie, (grandmother) who lives on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Anxious for her granddaughter to settle down, she turns to the local marriage broker Hannah. Although shocked and annoyed, Isabelle allows the matchmaker to introduce her to Sam, who owns the pickle shop on Essex, below Delancey Street.

At first Isabelle is not interested in Sam, believing that he is too working-class for her. Instead, she sets her sights on Tyler and the New York intelligentsia. She learns in the meantime that Sam did not hire a matchmaker out of desperation and in fact has admired Isabelle from afar for several years. Deeply touched, Isabelle agrees to meet him at her grandmother's house. After work, however, she is sidelined by Tyler and, believing that he is romantically interested in her, goes to his apartment. She discovers instead that Tyler wants the convenience of an assistant, not a true partner. Finally seeing through him, the disgusted Isabelle races to her grandmother's apartment, finding it empty with Bubby sleeping on the couch. Heartbroken, she believes she has ruined her chances with the honest and caring Sam. You will have to come and see the show to learn the ending.