Buyer & Cellar is a 2013 American one-man play by Jonathan Tolins. The play premiered at the Rattlestick Playwrights TheaterinNew York City on April 2, 2013. The production starred Michael Urie and was directed by Stephen Brackett. The same production then opened off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre on June 24, 2013, closing in 2014.[1] Urie won a Clarence Derwent Award for his performance[2] as well as a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance.[3]
Clancy O'Connor was Urie's understudy.[4]
The play is a one-man comedy that follows Alex More, a struggling gay actor working in Los Angeles, who is down on his luck after being recently fired from Disneyland. He lands a job curating the Malibu basement of Barbra Streisand. (The real-life Streisand constructed a series of "Main Street" storefronts beneath her Malibu barn inspired by the Winterthur MuseuminDelaware in order to house her collection of dolls and other trinkets).[5] More at first does not meet his employer, but eventually Streisand comes down to peruse her collection, and the two strike up a friendly relationship. The play chronicles the fictional exchanges between More and his idol, the source of both admiration and frustration on More's part. The entire play is narrated from More's point of view and is presented as a story told to his screenwriter boyfriend Barry.
The show was performed and live-streamedbyMichael Urie on April 19, 2020.[6] In France, Julien Baptist performed the show in December 2013.[7] In London, Aaron Sidwell performed the show in October 2020.[citation needed]
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