Mobster's Gay Son Has No "Swish Factor" In Arlene Violet's The Family

There's singing, there's dancing, there's murder . . . it must be a mob musical.

Former Rhode Island attorney general Arlene Violet has written The Family based on her experience during the 1980s in prosecuting the boys from LCN Patriarca, and it opens this week "for a month-long run at the Lederer Theater Center in Providence" as reported by Channing Gray for The Providence Jorunal:

"The Family" follows the exploits of a certain crime boss named Don Marco, who bears a striking resemblance to Patriarca. Don Marco wants his son, Renaldo, to take over the family business. But the sensitive Renaldo, who is into opera and other guys, wants no part of that life.

Even though Renaldo is gay, he has no "swish factor" says Violet; after all, he is a mobster's son.