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Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
This spring, the EXIT Theatre in San Francisco will host Terrence McNally's , Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, a raw, poignant comedy, starring Ben Ortega of Oakland, and Cheryl Smith of San Francisco. A smash 1987 Broadway hit, the play is directed by Bay Area actress/director, Michael Haven of Richmond and is set to run April 30-May 24, 2009.
Written by one of America's pre-eminent dramatists (Master Class, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Full Monty) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune is the hard-hitting, but ultimately redeeming romance of a waitress and a short-order cook, both on the cusp of middle age, both facing a lifetime of solitude in an anonymous purgatory called New York City.
Bruised from the inside out from a lifetime of abuse and neglect, Frankie drags her self-esteem behind her with heavy chains. Johnny rivals her in the scar department with a past that includes jail, a failed marriage and children he's loved and lost. Both shrink not from sex, but intimacy. She hides behind a cynical philosophy of aloofness, pretending she doesn't care; he's built a protective wall of fast-talking bravado.
Author McNally brings Frankie and Johnny together through a sort of kismet, a cosmic kinship forged through two lives of hardship that coincide at certain key points. The only thing holding them together is Johnny's unshakable belief that together they can build something greater. Sometimes touching, sometimes hilarious, they banter and spar their way through an evening of what may either turn out to be just another one-night stand or the happily-ever-after ending both desperately long for, but are afraid to believe could really exist.
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LocationExit Theater
156 Eddy Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States
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