“It’s a love letter to theater…” “Or more of a stalker’s note scrawled in lipstick on a mirror,” added Gil. Tennessee Williams and his sister Serena.” Geegland will perform for us has been made possible by the “Lillian Hellman Female Playwriting Initiative, who has accidentally funded this production.”Įvery word is the opportunity for a ridiculous gag: “In this deeply haunted theater, so many great playwrights put up their work. When photographing mashed potatoes, Gil lies there so they can get the lighting right.” Gil “is a stand-in model for mashed potatoes and other creamed foods.

Later a professor, he “resigned for stuff which remains in sealed documents.” Willie Geist, at a 92Y event, said George had been born “to verbally abusive parents,” hosting an imaginary talk show in his Long Island childhood bedroom from which he was banned as a guest. They should have been contenders, and the play they perform for us is the story of their supposedly platonic friendship and professional travails (the main characters transformed into “George Reddington” and “Gil Stone”), with a dizzying battery of insults, jokes, and riffs on theater thrown in, like deconstructing “the one-sided phone call.” Geegland) and actor (Faizon) are legends in their own perversely unfulfilled lunchtimes.

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