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About the Play
Terrance McNally's 1995 Tony Award-Winning Best Play.
Story:
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, Independence Day, 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 is blind. Each of the guests at their house is connected to Gregory’s work in one way or another.
Broadway Premiere
- Theatre
- Walter Kerr Theatre
- Opening Night
- Feb 14, 1995
- Total Performances
- 248
- Original Cast
- Stephen Bogardus, John Glover, Anthony Heald, Nathan Lane, Randy Becker, John Benjamin Hickey, Justin Kirk
- Director
- Joe Mantello
- Producer
- Manhattan Theatre Club
- Scenic Design
- Loy Arcenas
- Costume Design
- Jess Goldstein
- Lighting Design
- Brian MacDevitt
- Sound Design
- John Kilgore
1997 Film Version
- Movie Name
- Love! Valour! Compassion!
- Type
- Hollywood Feature Film
- Director
- Joe Mantello
- Screenplay
- Terrence McNally
- Starring
- Jason Alexander, Stephen Spinella, Stephen Bogardus
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1995 Tony Award Nominations
Best Play
Best Featured Actor in a Play – John Glover
Best Featured Actor in a Play – Stephen Bogardus
Best Featured Actor in a Play – Anthony Heald
Best Direction of a Play – Joe Mantello
Drama Desk Award Nominations
Outstanding Play
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play – Nathan Lane
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play – John Glover
Outstanding Director of a Play – Joe Mantello
Outstanding Costume Design – Jess Goldstein
Outstanding Lighting Design – Brian MacDevitt
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