Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune is a two-character play by Terrence McNally that was first performed off-Broadway in 1987.The play opens in the dark with a couple making love in her one-room walk-up apartment in the west side of Manhattan.Describing the scene from which the play gets its name, David Finkle wrote, "Johnny calls the radio station to request the most beautiful music ever written...Claude Debussy’s 'Clair de lune'...floats onto the night air... Johnny, buoyant with love, beckons Frankie to join him at the window and to bask...in the clair de lune.It's a lovely moment..." Source:[1] The play opened Off-Broadway on June 2, 1987 at Stage II of the Manhattan Theatre Club, where it ran for two weeks.Directed by Paul Benedict, the original cast starred Kathy Bates and F. Murray Abraham.
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