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Best Friend (play)

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Setting

In the present at an apartment on the Upper West Side.

Act I - 5;30 p.m., late August
Act II - Two hours later, the same evening

Plot

It's a character study of a neurotic woman disrupting her friend's romance by falsely claiming to have a lesbian relationship with her.

Original production

The show was directed by Marty Jacobs, scenery Andrew Greenhut, costumes Miles White, lighting Richard Winkler, production consultant Doug Tayler, production stage manager Michael Wieben, stage managers Victor Raider-Wexler and Ingrid Sonnichsen, and press by Lewis Harmon and Sol Jacobson.

The opening cast starred Barbara Baxley (Carolyn Parsky), Liz Sheridan (Mary Tagliavini), Mary Doyle (Anita Fitzgerald), and Michael M. Ryan (John McGovern).

References

The Best Plays of 1976–1977. New York City: Dodd, Mead and Company. 1977. p. 294. ISBN 978-0-396-07501-1.

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