Master Class [signed]

McNally, Terrence

ISBN 10: 0452276152 / ISBN 13: 9780452276154

Published by Plume/Penguin, New York, 1995

About this Item

62p. + backlist, production information, signed by the playwright on title page, lightly-worn later printing trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Plume Drama. McNally's play about Maria Callas which won the 1994 Tony Award for Best Play.

Seller Inventory # 279770

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Master Class [signed]
• Publisher: Plume/Penguin, New York
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0452276152
• ISBN 13: 9780452276154
• Binding: Paperback
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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About this title

Synopsis

Master Class is a pyrotechnical theater?fireworks in a contained space where Maria Callas is brought back to life in Sturm und Drang. Inspired by a series of master classes the great diva conducted at Juilliard toward the end of her career, this drama puts Maria Callas at center stage again as she coaxes, prods, and inspires students?"victims" as she calls them?into giving the performances of their lives while revealing her own. As she slips off into memories, we experience her days at La Scala, her marriage to Meneghini, and her great doomed love for Aristotle Onassis. But the dazzling theatricality comes from Callas's emotional explosions, her cutting wit, and the soaring music as each student sings an aria that exposes the Divina's vulnerabilities ? and her genius.

About the Author

Terrence McNally is the author of numerous plays, including Love! Valour! Compassion! (winner of the Tony Award for best play), The Ritz, and Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, which was made into a feature film starring Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer, and the books for the musicals The Rink, and Kiss of the Spider Woman (winner of the Tony Award for the best book of a musical). Other successes include Lips Together, Teeth Apart and The Lisbon Traviata. McNally has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also serves as vice president for the Dramatists Guild, the national orgainzation of playwrights, composers, and lyricists. He lives in New York City.