Theater: Belasco Theatre / 111 West 44th Street, New York, NY, 10036
Tony Award nominee Polly Bergen stars with Mark Hamill in the Broadway production of Richard Alfieri's Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks. Bergen portrays Lily Harrison, a formidable Florida retiree, who has hired a dance instructor for six weeks. Much to her dismay, she is greeted by an acerbic, transplanted New Yorker, Michael Minetti (Hamill). After a rocky start, Michael and Lily soon learn they have more in common than either could have imagined. Arthur Allan Seidelman directs.
October 30, 2003: Can a middle-aged gay former Broadway chorus boy whose acerbic demeanor hides a deep loneliness and the elderly widow of a Baptist minister who submerges her liberal, fun-loving nature beneath a prim formality find happiness together in a Florida condominium?
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