Lou Ann K. Behan, a lawyer-turned-composer-playwright who grew up at the Jersey Shore, has a new musical comedy, "Over the Boardwalk," premiering tonight in Reston, Va., the Washington Post reports. The play is set in 1963 but highlights what Behan describes as widespread current efforts to "gentrify the boardwalk scene at shore towns from Atlantic City to Ocean City and down the coast."
The boardwalk-on-the-beach culture, with the attendant images of cotton candy, honky-tonk music and inexpensive, family-style entertainment, may soon be a thing of the past, she tells the Post, if developers continue to remove the old piers. "If we gentrify all of these vacation spots, where will the working-class families go?"
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Pier pressure: Va. play targets gentrification of boardwalk towns
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