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About The Show

Palisades Park is a coming of age story and an “ensemble” piece.

The story line follows numerous characters working together in Palisades Park during the summer of 1971 where they have spent many summers enjoying the park, friendship and care free days growing up.

Six of them are recent high school graduates facing their future in the real world.

They have entered a new decade. Vietnam rages on, the Beatles have disbanded and the innocence of youth has begun to fade away quickly.

Palisades Park, although set in the past musically and nostalgically, has a story that draws the modern audience into the various relationships that are fluid and timeless among all the characters in the show.

The foundation of the show is rooted in two main characters, Barbara Ellen and Mark Mason, who eventually find love despite their personal skepticism toward romance.

Barbara Ellen who is introduced in scene one as the sweet 8 year old winner of the 1961 “Little Miss America Contest” at Palisades Amusement Park, seamlessly becomes 18 years old in scene two.

Barbara Ellen fears love due to the strained marriage of her parents and the recent break up of her older sister and her fiancé.

Mark Mason, an older graduate of her high school is pursuing success as a pop star.
He avoids anything that will take his focus away from his music.

“Cousin” Brucie, New York’s favorite radio DJ is a constant presence in the show even singing a duet with the park’s boisterous owner “Uncle” Irving.

Brucie brought exceptional talent onto “The Great Stage” at Palisades Park from Frankie Avalon and Tony Orlando, to Diana Ross, Tony Bennett, Michael Jackson, and even a young Billy Joel.

Due to the efforts of Barbara Ellen, “Cousin” Brucie allows Mark Mason to be the closing act of the Labor Day Weekend Show and he gets his big break.

Unknown to anyone, Palisades Park closed it’s gates for the last time that September after 73 years and was sold for it’s 38 acres where condominiums would be built.

On Thanksgiving break from college all the kids reunite in front of the demolished “Cyclone” roller coaster and sing a final goodbye to each other and the park that felt like home for so many years.

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