The Last Mile
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The Last Mile is a short (15 minute) comedy-drama written by Terrence McNally for Public television's Great Performances 20th Anniversary Special (1992). The play, directed by Paul Bogart, is set backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House as a soprano (Bernadette Peters) is getting ready to make her Met debut in the opera Tosca. The stage manager (Nathan Lane) gives her encouraging advice and she is visited by her "tenor for the evening" (Paul Sorvino). She is nervous and excited, and thinks fondly of her brother (Tony Goldwyn), who died from AIDS. He appears to her in her dressing room as a ghostly apparation.
The Special was shown on American Public television stations in October 1992.
