Overview
Character Name
Glad Hand
Show
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Role Size
Featured
Dramatic Function
Comic Relief, Authority Figure
Relationships
Dancing
Non Dancer
Voice
Non-singer
Time & Place
1950s, New York City's West Side
Analysis
Glad Hand is the awkward, overeager social worker who hosts the dance at the gym. His well-meaning but bumbling attempts to bring the Jets and Sharks together only highlight the ineffectiveness of adult authority. Played for comic relief, he offers a moment of levity before
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