Terrence+McNally

Terrence McNally (born November 3, 1939) is an [|American] [|playwright] who has received four [|Tony Awards], an [|Emmy] , two [|Guggenheim Fellowships] , a [|Rockefeller Grant] , the [|Lucille Lortel Award] , the [|Hull-Warriner Award] , and a citation from the [|American Academy of Arts and Letters]. He has been a member of the Council of the [|Dramatists Guild] since 1970 and has served as vice-president since 1981. McNally was partnered to Thomas Kirdahy following a civil union ceremony in Vermont in 2003, and they subsequently married in Washington, D.C. on April 6, 2010. His first credited [|Broadway] musical was [|//The Rink//] in 1984, a project he entered after the score by composer [|John Kander] and lyricist [|Fred Ebb] had been written. In 1990, McNally won an [|Emmy Award] for Best Writing in a Miniseries or Special for [|//Andre's Mother//], a drama about a woman trying to cope with her son's death from [|AIDS]. A year later, he returned to the stage with another AIDS-related play, [|//Lips Together, Teeth Apart//]//,// a study of the irrational fears many people harbor towards [|homosexuals] and people who have AIDS. In the play, two married couples spend the Fourth of July weekend at a summer house on [|Fire Island]. The house has been willed to Sally Truman by her brother who has just died of AIDS, and it soon becomes evident that both couples are afraid to get in the swimming pool once used by Sally's brother. With [|//Kiss of the Spider Woman//] (based on the novel by Manuel Puig) in 1992, McNally returned to the musical stage, collaborating with Kander and Ebb on a script which explores the complex relationship between two men caged together in a Latin American prison. //Kiss of the Spider Woman// won the 1993 [|Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical]. He collaborated with [|Stephen Flaherty] and [|Lynn Ahrens] on [|//Ragtime//] in 1997, a musical adaptation of the [|E.L. Doctorow] novel, which tells the story of Coalhouse Walker Jr., a fiery black piano man who demands retribution when his [|Model T] is destroyed by a mob of white troublemakers. The play also features such historical figures as [|Harry Houdini], [|Booker T. Washington] , [|J.P. Morgan] and [|Henry Ford] .Ragtime recently finished a Broadway run on January 3, 2010. McNally's other plays include 1994's [|//Love! Valour! Compassion!//] which examines the relationships of eight gay men; and [|//Master Class//] (1995), a character study of legendary opera soprano [|Maria Callas] which won the Tony for Best Play. In 1997, McNally stirred up a storm of controversy with [|//Corpus Christi//], a modern day retelling of the story of Jesus' birth, ministry, and death in which both he and his disciples are portrayed as homosexual. In fact, the play was initially cancelled because of death threats from extremist religious groups against the board members of the [|Manhattan Theatre Club] which was to produce the play. However, several other playwrights such as [|Tony Kushner] threatened to withdraw their plays if //Corpus Christi// was not produced, and the board finally relented. When the play opened, the theatre was besieged by almost 2000 protesters, furious at what they considered blasphemy. When //Corpus Christi// opened in London, a British Muslim group called the //Defenders of the Messenger Jesus// even went so far as to issue a [|fatwa] sentencing McNally to death. On January 19, 2008, [|Robert Forsyth], [|Anglican] bishop of South [|Sydney] condemned " [|Corpus Christi] " (which opened for February's Gay and Lesbian [|Mardi Gras] , a [|play] depicting [|Judas] seducing Jesus): "It is deliberately, not innocently, offensive and they're obviously having a laugh about it." The play also showed Jesus administrating a [|marriage] between two male [|apostles]. Director Leigh Rowney accepted that it would offend some [|Christians] and said: "I wanted this play in the hands of a Christian person like myself to give it dignity but still open it up to answering questions about Christianity as a faith system." In a January 2003 interview, McNally addressed critics who said he had "added" two gay characters to his Brodway adaptation of the film " [|The Full Monty] ": "If Neil Simon had written the script, they wouldn’t have said that. The [|Kennedy Center], [|Washington, DC] presented three of McNally's plays that focus on his works involving opera, titled //Nights at the Opera// in March 2010. The pieces included a new play, //Golden Age//, //Master Class// starring [|Tyne Daly] , and //The Lisbon Traviata// starring [|Malcolm Gets] and [|John Glover] . [|[7]][|[8]][|[9]] McNally has collaborated on several operas, including composer [|Jake Heggie] 's adaptation of Sister Helen Prejean's book //Dead Man Walking//, for which McNally wrote the libretto. In 2007, Heggie composed a chamber opera, //Three Decembers,// based on original text by McNally titled //Some Christmas Letters (and a Couple of Phone Calls, Too)//, with libretto by Gene Scheer.

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__**LIST OF PLAYS :**__ // [|And Things That Go Bump in the Night] // (1964) // Botticelli // (1968) // [|Sweet Eros] // (1968) // Witness // (1968) // ¡Cuba Si! // // Bringing It All Back Home // (1969) // Noon // (1968), second segment of //Morning, Noon and Night// // [|Next] // (1969) // [|Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?] // (1971) // [|Bad Habits] // (1974) // [|The Ritz] // (1975) // Whiskey // // The Tubs // // [|Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune] // (1982) // It's Only a Play // (1986) // [|Andre's Mother] // (1988) <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">// Hope // (1988), second segment of //Faith, Hope and Charity// <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">// [|The Lisbon Traviata] // (1989) <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">// Prelude and Liebestod // (1989) <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">// [|Lips Together, Teeth Apart] // (1991) <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">// [|A Perfect Ganesh] // (1993) <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">// Hidden Agendas // (1994) <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">// [|Love! Valour! Compassion!] // (1994) <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">// [|By The Sea, By The Sea, By The Beautiful Sea] // (1995) <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">// [|Master Class] // (1995) <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">// [|Corpus Christi] // (1998) <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">// The Stendhal Syndrome // (2004) <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">// [|Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams] // (2005) <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">// [|Some Men] // (2006) <span style="line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.5in;">// [|Deuce] // (2007) // Unusual Acts of Devotion // (2008) // Golden Age // (2009)

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