The Nance (Play)

The Nance is a play written by Douglas Carter Bean with

Nathan Lane -  Jonny Orsini Lyceum Theatre

Playbill/ Program Date March 2013

The play involves the lives of performers in burlesque during the 1930s. The “nance” was a stereotypical camp homosexual. The play is a production of the Lincoln Center and premiered on Broadway in 2013; it received five Tony Award nominations, and won three awards.

In 1937 Chauncey Miles is a star in a poor burlesque theatre company in New York City, playing a “nance”, a “stock character who was a flamingly effeminate homosexual.”[5] Chauncey is gay and looks for men at an automat, but he must be careful or he could be arrested. There he meets Ned, newly arrived in the City, and they become romantically involved.

The mayor of New York, Fiorello La Guardia, is trying to end burlesque, in part by persecuting the gay population. Chauncey, in court, defends burlesque and free expression. He comes to understand that he cannot be monogamous. Finally, he appears on stage in complete drag, playing an old prostitute.

 Cady Huffman, Douglas Carter Beane, Jack O'Brien, John Lee Beatty, Lewis J. Stadlen, Nathan Lane

Size 215 x 135 mm Pages 44

Condition: Used  Looks Good - Playbill / Program

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