This is a warm and gentle story about a Jewish widow from Brooklyn who goes to Tokyo with her daughter and diplomat son-in-law, where she meets a Japanese widower who courts her with the manners and sensitivity of his traditional ways.  You'll have to see the play to find out how it ends!

Far away places
With strange sounding names
Going to China or maybe Siam
I want to see for myself those faraway places I've been reading about

Those lines from a long ago song introduces us to the endearing heroine of the 1959 comedy drama

A Majority of One,

which had a 551-performance run at the Shubert and won a Tony for Gertrude Berg. The far away place to which its unlikely romantic heroine, a Brooklyn widow, journeys is Japan where her daughter and foreign service officer son-in-law have been posted. It is a country Mrs. Jacoby doesn't exactly dream about but still thinks of as the enemy responsible for the death of her son during World War II. But surprise, surprise. Just a few days into the two-week steamship voyage to Japan, Mrs. Jacoby's bitterness begins to melt as she strikes up a friendship with a decided romantic edge with Mr. Asano, a millionaire Japanese widower.