Playwright Terrence McNally’s death from coronavirus-related causes in late March deprived the theater world of one of its greatest talents, a four-time Tony Award winner known for Master Class and…
should totally be nominated for best series,” he notes, “both for a remarkable season that they just had and then also just for always being at the forefront of documentaries that really reflect something significant about America.”
McNally’s significance lies not only in his plays and librettos, but in the way he lived his life. He grew up in conservative Corpus Christi, Texas, a child of alcoholic parents. His father beat him, and so did classmates when they found out he was gay. That did not deter McNally from remaining open about his sexuality, a habit of being he took with him to New York where he went to college and later began his theater career.
“Terrence was out when Edward Albee, with whom he had a long relationship, was still in the closet,” Kaufman observes. “Tennessee Williams was still in the closet. Thornton Wilder and William Inge were all still living under the fear of being ‘out.’ But Terrence was there and himself and set an example, and I think that’s an example that still resonates.
By 1982 McNally was a very successful playwright, but he was also a notorious drunk. The documentary recounts how one night, at a birthday party for Stephen Sondheim, the writer spilled a drink on Lauren Bacall. Then a guardian angel intervened in the form of Angela Lansbury. The actress recalls the conversation they had that changed the course of McNally’s life.. “I said to him, ‘Why are you destroying yourself? You’re a brilliant writer. Listen to what I’m saying: stop drinking.
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