I grew up in a household where both my parents were immigrants – my mother from Russia, father from Lithuania – and they spoke more Yiddish in my house than English, so it was just a [sic] completely a part of who I was.
[1] She got the idea to write about a woman "loosely based on 'the no holds barred outrageous person' that she found in Cher.
"[4] She wrote the book and lyrics for the 2009 stage musical, Laughing Matters, for the Pasadena Playhouse, California.
[5] Her next work was the Roundabout Theatre Broadway production of her new musical, The People in the Picture, which opened on April 28, 2011, and closed on June 19, 2011, and starred Donna Murphy.
[6] She was married to rock concert promoter Steve Wolf until they divorced in 1977 (less than half a year before he was murdered when robbers broke into his house).