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'Breaking Up Is Hard to Do' in Port Jeff

Published: February 14, 2012 5:37 PM
By STEVE PARKS  steve.parks@newsday.com

Photo credit: Theatre Three / Peter Lanscombe/ | Phyllis March and Stephen Doone star in "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" at Theatre Three, through March 17, 2012.

As a 19-year-old, Neil Sedaka earned $86.50 a week accompanying cha-cha lessons on piano by day and playing ballroom music by night at Esther's Catskills resort. That summer, he fell in love with the owner's 16-year-old daughter, now his wife of nearly 50 years.

So we know where the creators of the 2005 jukebox musical "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" got their story line inspiration -- if you...