Michael Urie just reprised his role in Buyer & Cellar a one-man play by Jonathan Tolins for which he won a Clarence Derwent Award for his performance as well as a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance in 2013.
The play is a 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 Museum in Delaware in order to house her collection of dolls and other trinkets).
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 hilarious play is narrated from More’s point of view, and is presented as a story told to his screenwriter boyfriend Barry.
Urie performed this live from his living room on Sunday, April 19 in aid of BC/EFA COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund
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