TOP DRAWER: Stories of Dysfunction and Redemption from Park Avenue to
Havana, is Adelaide Mestre's award-winning show of her journey to
Cuba to seek out her deceased father’s piano, left behind when her
family fled in 1960. The show takes place in both the past and
present, as the audience follows her on her quest to reclaim her
family’s heritage. In flashbacks, she chronicles her life growing
up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side with her mother, a thrice married,
opera-singing socialite with impossible top-DRAWER STANDARDS, and her
father, a gay, Cuban, manic-depressive concert pianist. In story and
song, she shares about her parents doomed love affair, her father’s
struggle with his homosexuality, and his eventual tragic suicide. On
her journey, she learns of a famous speech her grandfather gave
against Castro and recovers old recordings of her father playing the
piano with an orchestra in Havana in 1954. With sentiment and humor
she spins a tale of dysfunction and redemption and, ultimately, shares
her discovery that art can be a kind of alchemy that transmutes loss
and abandonment into freedom. TOP DRAWER will make you laugh, cry and
maybe even... sing.Written and performed by Adelaide
Mestre with Doug Oberhamer at the piano. Directed by Coco Cohn.
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