The cast of Lou Pallotta’s Italian-family dinner-theater comedies used to get so boisterous and familiar with one another, both on- and offstage, that audiences would check with them: “You’re all family for real, right?”
They actually weren’t, but they formed an honorary family, Pallotta said. Inspired by Portland’s long running “Tony and Tina’s Wedding” comedy, veteran actor Pallotta decided to spin stories about his own upbringing in Brooklyn, N.Y.,
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