Francine Nemeroff doesn't look like someone who'd produce a musical with simulated sex acts and dialogue that would be censored from "Saturday Night Live." No, "Frantic Fran," which is also the name of her East Meadow-based theater company, looks more like the Jewish-mother producer who got into the theater business because her daughter Lara's grade school didn't have a drama department. In 2001, Nemeroff launched Frantic Fran's Theatre and produced "Bye Bye Birdie" at a local temple. Later, she directed and produced children's shows at the Nassau Cultural Center. "How I got from 'Bye Bye...
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