Publisher Description
In a Fifth Avenue apartment high above Central Park, art dealer Flanders Kittredge and his wife Ouisa are trying to interest a moneyed friend in a $2 million investment. When an unexpected young guest arrives, claiming to be the son of Sidney Poitier, the plot takes some wonderfully unexpected turns. Veering effortlessly from hilarity to pathos, this dazzling play was lauded by the New York Times as "transcendent, magical, and a masterwork."
This is an LA Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Alan Alda, Pam Blair, Gabrielle Carteris, Gabriel Dell, Alastair Duncan, Melissa Greenspan, Oded Gross, Chuma Hunter-Gault, Swoosie Kurtz, Charles Levin, Daniel Passer, and Danny Strauss.
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About the Narrators
Alan Alda is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he played Hawkeye Pierce for eleven years in the television series M*A*S*H and has acted in, written, and directed many feature films. He has starred often on Broadway, and his avid interest in science has led to his hosting PBS’s Scientific American Frontiers for eleven years. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 2005 and has been nominated for thirty Emmy awards.
Swoosie Kurtz, a multiple Tony, Emmy, Obie, and Drama Desk Award winner, is a Broadway icon whose work also includes big screen blockbusters like Liar, Liar and Dangerous Liaisons, indie favorites like Citizen Ruth, True Stories, and Cruel Intentions and beloved television hits Sisters and Pushing Daisies. She is currently starring in the CBS hit series Mike & Molly. Her distinctive name comes from The Swoose, the famed B-17 bomber flown by her father, Col. Frank Kurtz, the most decorated Air Force pilot of World War II.
Tawni O’Dell
is the New York Times bestselling
author of Fragile Beasts, Sister Mine, Coal Run, and Back Roads, which
was an Oprah’s Book Club pick and a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection. O’Dell’s work has been
translated into fifteen languages and published in over forty countries. She was born and raised in the coal-mining
region of western Pennsylvania, the territory she writes about with such
striking authenticity. She graduated from Northwestern University with a degree
in journalism and spent many years living in the Chicago area before moving
back to Pennsylvania, where she now lives with her two children.