EASTERN STANDARD Patricia Clarkson Dylan Baker Peter Frechette Anne Meara 1988

Description: EASTERN STANDARD Playbill Patricia Clarkson Dylan Baker Peter Frechette Anne Meara 1988 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eastern Standard is a play by Richard Greenberg. Set in 1987, it focuses on yuppies, AIDS, the stock market and insider trading scandals, homelessness, and urban malaise. In the first act, very successful but disenchanted architect Stephen Wheeler is lunching with his best friend from their days at Dartmouth College, rising avant-garde gay artist Drew Paley, in a trendy restaurant on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Seated at the adjoining table are Wall Street investment counselor Phoebe Kidde and her television producer brother Peter, who has just revealed he has AIDS to her. When boisterous homeless woman May Logan enters the restaurant and creates a scene, the four diners and their frazzled waitress Ellen find themselves thrown together, and they eventually strike up an unlikely alliance. In the second act, six months have elapsed, and the sextet are spending the weekend at Stephen's summer house in The Hamptons. Stephen and Phoebe find they share a mutual attraction, while Peter, unprepared to discuss his recent diagnosis, is trying to discourage Drew's amorous advances. Representing the lower class are Ellen and May, whose presence forces everyone to reexamine their lives and reevaluate their priorities. The Manhattan Theatre Club presented the play at the Off-Broadway New York City Center, opening on October 27, 1988, and closing on December 4, 1988. Again directed by Michael Engler, the cast included Dylan Baker as Stephen, Peter Frechette as Drew, Patricia Clarkson as Phoebe, Kevin Conroy as Peter, Barbara Garrick as Ellen, and Anne Meara as May. A critical success, the production transferred to Broadway at the John Golden Theatre, where it began previews on December 19, 1988 and officially opened on January 5, 1989. It closed on March 25 after 92 performances. Both Baker and Frechette won the Theatre World Award, and Frechette won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play. Eastern Standard was the first of Greenberg's plays to run on Broadway. The New York Times noted that the play "was ensconsed on Broadway... after successful engagements at the Seattle Repertory and Manhattan Theatre Club." The play had six sold-out weeks off-Broadway. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE

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