Ninth-grade Rudy has asked eleventh-grade Patricia out on a date, and to his amazement she has agreed.Now Rudy has to come up with the money, the poise, and the conversation to carry it off.This one-act play, by turns heartwarming and heart-wrenching, follows Rudy from his desperate search for guidance from family and friends through the hilarities of the date itself, all the way to its successful conclusion.'To present a new kind of coming-of-age story, a play is the way.'--American Bookseller
