When it comes to connecting with local audiences, what could be better than a story about doting New Jersey Italian-American grandparents and their loving, but ambitious grandson who is ready to get on with his life, even if it means moving from New York City to Seattle for a better job, thus ending his regular Sunday visits with them?

It gets even more pertinent when it's revealed that the young man's parents have moved to Florida, leaving both sets of his grandparents in Hoboken with only Nick left behind for them to pamper and adore. That's the setup for Over the River and Through the Woods, the comedy playing Feb. 9 to 19 at the Forum at Stage West Community Playhouse. It's a reprise for the 1994 show, which was first produced at Stage West in 2003.