love! valour! compassion!
by Terrance McNally
Presented in June of 2001.
Written by Terrance McNally.
Directed by *Homer Tracy.
Cast: Tom Brown, *Rodney Featherston, Darrell Maines, Troy Johnson, Jim Moreton, *Michael Thompson, and Steven Thorton.
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 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 – Arthur and longtime partner Perry are business consultants; John Jekyll, 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.
