Master Class

Master Class is a play by American playwright Terrence McNally, with incidental music by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, and Vincenzo Bellini. The play originally was staged by the Philadelphia Theatre Company and the Mark Taper Forum. After twelve previews, the Broadway production, directed by Leonard Foglia, opened on November 15, 1995 at the John Golden Theatre, where it ran for 598 performances. The original cast included Zoe Caldwell, Audra McDonald, Karen Kay Cody, David Loud, and Jay Hunter Morris. Caldwell and McDonald won Tony Awards for their performances in 1996.

Presented by Pieter Toerien at the National Arts Festival, 1996, by arrangement with Robert Whitehead and Lewis Allen, starring Jana Cilliers as Maria Callas.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Class