Master Class
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SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Mar 8, 2009
Closed Apr 5, 2009
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Barbara Walsh stars as "Maria Callas" in Paper Mill's production of Master Class, Terrence McNally's Tony-Award winning play. Wendy Goldberg directs.
Master Class is the story of renowned opera diva Maria Callas, while teaching a master class in front of an audience: us! She's glamorous, larger than life, and drop-dead funny! What begins as a class becomes an intimate and revealing look into her life: we learn about Callas' tumultuous affair with Aristotle Onassis; her early days as an ugly duckling, the fierce hatred of her rivals, and the unforgiving press that savaged her at first. Master Class is a tour-de-force lesson underscored by simple truths about life and art.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Brookside Dr
Millburn, NJ 07041
Founded in 1934, Paper Mill Playhouse raised the curtain on its first performance in 1938, opening with a production of Spanish playwright Martinez Sierra's The Kingdom of God. Due to a fire in 1980, Paper Mill was forced to close. Like a phoenix, [...] Read More
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"When you're fat and ugly, you had better have a couple of high F's you can interpolate into your life." So says Maria Callas, the American-born Greek soprano who became the definitive diva of 20th-century opera, in Terrence McNally's celebrated 1995 play Master Class, now being given a strong production at the Paper Mill Playhouse, with a very fine Barbara Walsh in the leading role.
The two-act play, loosely based on a series of 12 master classes that Callas gave at the Juilliard School in 1971 that McNally observed, is essentially a one-woman monologue with short cameos from a trio of would-be opera singers, and incidental music by Bellini, Puccini, and Verdi that is performed by pianist [...]