The Queen of Steeplechase Park is the absolutely positively practically almosttrue story of infamous burlesque queen and magic meatball maker Belladonna Marie Donato.ampampamp160Pregnant at fifteen after gleefully losing her virginity to pansexual neighborhood strongman Francis Anthony Mozzarelli Bella is robbed of her baby by a pack of nefarious nuns and her embittered papa has her sterilized without her consent legal in 1935. With the help of a besotted Francis her newfound family of queercentric outcasts and a topsecret meatball recipe a devastated Bella embarks on a riotous quest through Depressionera Coney Island sideshows the tawdry world of peekaboo striptease routines a doomed mob marriage and a tasty collection of wisdomfilled recipes to find her lost child herself and maybe even true love. It all leads Bella back home to the scene of her original sin where she boldly faces matters of life and death questions of forgiveness and a holy mess only the healing properties of great Italian cooking can fix.