Love! Valour! Compassion!

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Love! Valour! Compassion! (1994), a play by Terrence McNally. [City Center, 321 perf.; Tony, NYDCC Awards.] Gregory Mitchell ( Stephen Bogardus), a famous Manhattan choreographer, opens up his 1915 vintage summer home on a lake in upstate New York for three holiday weekends, inviting some of his closest gay friends to relax with him. But each guest brings so much emotional baggage with him that the weekends become fraught with subtle as well as overt tension. The colorful guests include the flamboyant costume designer Buzz ( Nathan Lane); the frustrated English composer John ( John Glover) and his twin brother, the gentle James (Glover also); and the blind Bobby ( Justin Kirk). There was little plot but a lot of Chekhov‐like meanderings punctuated by plenty of in‐jokes about the gay theatre world. Joe Mantello directed the Manhattan Theatre Club production, Loy Arcenas designed the atmospheric set that included a dollhouse version of the farmhouse, and the play was popular enough to transfer to Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre for a profitable run.

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