- Burn This
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It begins shortly after the
funeral of Robbie, a younggay dancer whodrowned in a boating accident. In attendance were hisroommate s,choreographer Anna and ad man Larry. Soon joining them in Robbie's lower-Manhattan loft arescreenwriter Burton, Anna's longtime lover, and Pale, Robbie's coke-snorting,hyperactive restaurant manager brother. In the face of their sharedtragedy , the quartet attempts to make sense of their lives and reconsider their own identities and relationships.Commissioned by the
Circle Repertory Company , theoff-Broadway production, directed byMarshall W. Mason , opened onFebruary 19 ,1987 at Theatre 890. The cast includedJonathan Hogan ,Joan Allen ,John Malkovich , andLou Liberatore .After seven previews, the Broadway production, with the same cast again directed by Mason, opened on
October 14 ,1987 at thePlymouth Theatre , where it ran for 437 performances. The cast was replaced byLisa Emery ,Scott Glenn ,Lonny Price , andEric Roberts for the last two weeks of the run.Allen won the
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, and Liberatore was nominated for Best Featured Actor in a Play.Drama Desk Award nominations went to Liberatore and Malkovich, and Roberts won theTheatre World Award .The West End production, directed by
Robert Allan Ackerman , opened onNovember 7 ,1990 at the Lyric Theatre. Malkovich and Liberatore were joined byJuliet Stevenson andMichael Simkins .The Signature Theatre Company revival, directed by
James Houghton , opened onSeptember 19 ,2002 at the Union Square Theatre, where it ran for slightly more than three months. The cast includedEdward Norton ,Catherine Keener ,Ty Burrell , andDallas Roberts . Norton's performance won him anObie Award and garnered both him and the productionLucille Lortel Award nominations.External links
* [http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4480 Internet Broadway Database listing]
* [http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=show&title=Burn%20This Lortel Archives listing]
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