Plays by Terrence McNally (Study Guide) - Love! Valour! Compassion!, Deuce, Corpus Christi, the Ritz, Master Class, Bad Habits (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Love Valour Compassion , Deuce, Corpus Christi, the Ritz, Master Class, Bad Habits, the Lisbon Traviata, Sweet Eros, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Some Men, Next, by the Sea, by the Sea, by the Beautiful Sea. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Love Valour Compassion is a 1994 play by Terrence McNally, directed by Joe Mantello. Its off-Broadway premiere was at the Manhattan Theatre Club on October 11, 1994 where it staged 72 performances. The production then transferred to the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway where, after 28 previews, it opened on 14 February 1995, closing on 17 September 1995 after an additional 248 performances. The setting is at a lakeside summer vacation house in Dutchess County, two hours north of New York City where eight gay friends spend the three major holiday weekends of one summer together for Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, and Labor Day. The house belongs to Gregory, a successful Broadway choreographer now approaching middle age, who fears he is losing his creativity; and his twenty-something lover, Bobby, a legal assistant who happens to be blind. Each of the guests at their house is connected to Gregorys work in one way or another - Arthur and longtime partner Perry are business consultants; John Jeckyll, a sour Englishman, is a dance accompanist; die-hard musical theater fanatic Buzz Hauser is a costume designer and the most stereotypically gay man in the group. Only John's summer lover, Ramon, and John's twin brother James are outside the circle of friends. But Ramon is outgoing and eventually makes a place for himself in the group, and James is such a gentle soul that he is quickly welcomed. Infidelity, flirtations, soul-searching, AIDS, tr...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=158090