STAGE TUBE: Union Theatre Premieres THE SPITFIRE GRILL

The musical, which has music by James Valcq and lyrics by Fred Alley and a book by both of them, based on the film by Lee David Zlotoff, follows the story of recently paroled convict Percy Talbott, who is looking for somewhere to start over, and rural Gilead, WI, seems just the place. She takes a job at the Spitfire Grill, a crumbling diner where the townsfolk congregate and gossip, run by a feisty widow named Hannah. Hannah has been trying to sell the diner to escape from the painful memories it holds, but the property has been on the market for a decade with no takers.