LONERGAN: Peripherally. Long fabled as a director, script doctor and dramatist, Ms. May first became famous as a master of improvisational comedy, instantly inventing fully detailed, piquantly neurotic characters who always leaned slightly off-kilter. LONERGAN: No, no! In any case, the Gladys we meet in The Waverly Gallery the title comes from the small rented Greenwich Village space where she shows art of dubious distinction is conducting what might be called extreme improvisation. And so you just kinda get in there and you just try to same as with your own work, you try to think of a person who feels vivid to you. Like, one would be censorship and the other would be faith and the other would be women. There's a structure to it, or you couldn't write it. I think it's just really difficult. And this past Sunday the play and May won Drama Desk awards. Or this six characters? It wasn't, like, I always agreed with her. A wacky and heartrending look at the effect of senility on a family, The Waverly Gallery was a success at New York's Promenade Theatre, winning an Obie for legendary Eileen Heckart in the role of Gladys. Yeah. ALTSCHUL: Can you talk about "Manchester by the Sea"? THE WAVERLY GALLERY Playwright: Kenneth Lonergan Director: Scott Ellis Cast: Ellen Fine /Maureen Anderman Don Bowman/Anthony Arkin Howard Fine /Mark Blum Daniel /Josh Hamilton Gladys Green/ Eileen Heckart Alan George/ Stephen Mendillo Set Designer: Derek McLane Costume Designer: Michael Krass Lighting Designer: Kenneth Posner I feel like there's a falseness to the shrill nature of some comedies. Lucas Hedges, Elaine May in "The Waverly Gallery" They tried a bunch of different ideas for him. 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There's a plot of some kind. Or two? And I'm supposed to write a television show, too, but I don't know what that's gonna be. LONERGAN: Yeah. LONERGAN: I don't know what they mean exactly, because you know, I often find when I'm watching something, it's when they bring in the sensational event that I start to lose interest. This is descriptive. My name is Stephanie.I paint under the pseudonym St. Carlson. LONERGAN:I don't know that, nobody does that anymore. LONERGAN: You might be interested for five or ten minutes, but then the bottom drops out and you're just like, "What's gonna happen next? Very closely. I like all three of them, but I think that's the most interesting. She's got dementia, and it's about how she tries to hang on to what she's got, and how her family, her daughter and grandson and all them cope with this extremely difficult end of life. "The Waverly Gallery" is a memory play told by Daniel, who addresses us from the front of the stage. The show is able to balance the painful situation with the humor her family finds in the darkest times. I'm not sure what the grammar is there! It's quite a full-time job all the time. This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. ALTSCHUL: Well, it worked out in the end in that if one wants to see your version of the film, you're a click away. Why were the audiences drawn to that film? This was all before I was born, so I don't know all the details. ALTSCHUL: And that's just life experience, right? I mean, who knows? [Whats new onstage and off: Sign up for our Theater Update newsletter]. Monologue: "He's taken an interest. And I mostly have verisimilitude as an anchor. Our Pet Policy. Because it's really different from not . You can't just throw stuff down and have it be interesting. The script covers a late 1980s year or so in the life of Daniel (the Lonergan stand-in, played with slumped and diffident grace by Lucas Hedges, who also starred in Manchester by the Sea). LONERGAN: It's a long story. The play explores her fight to retain her independence and the subsequent effect of her decline on her family, especially her grandson. ALTSCHUL: So the constraints of the facts kind of give you freedom to explore the little details? Why were there so many troubles, if you read about it or you read some of the, you know, the lawsuit. As the play continues, he's filled with guilt and remorse. Well, I mean most of it's casting. 2. Gallery is a moving chronicle of the deteriorating effects of aging, Apologia offers some riveting theatrics but is ultimately uneven, and Parsifal fails to achieves its lofty ambitions of examining issues of art, sex, religion, and politics, settling for cheap sitcom laughs. But on the other hand, that's not what they're there for. And it's interesting for the actors and the director to try to make that come to life. But it does also become a play, you know? ALTSCHUL: And at its core, what is it about? The Waverly Gallery Oct 25, 2018 Jan 27, 2019 . The action, set between 1989-1991, and staged by rising director Lila Neugebauer (The Wolves), shifts back and forth from Gladys's tiny gallery on Waverly Place to the Upper West Side apartment of her daughter, Ellen (Joan Allen, The Heidi Chronicles, as good as gold), and Ellen's husband, Howard Fine (David Cromer, Our Town, excellent).We also visit Gladys's Village apartment, next door . (LAUGHS). I may have met other smarter people but not spoken to them. In her information and humor filled opening monologue, Ms. Heckart manages to not only fill us in on the family history but to give us a . She's really smart. At least that's what I thought. LONERGAN: Yeah, or even if they say you're good at something you're not good at, you think, "Oh, well maybe " It might encourage you to go in that direction a bit more. You're there to consult and help. Most of those facilities aren't so great. And that's the other thing that I'm interested in, anyway, is that a lot of these big situations come down to practicalities, like who can be there at 5:00? An octogenarian New Yorker, former lawyer and perpetual hostess for whom schmoozing and kibitzing have always been as essential as breathing, Gladys operates on the principle that if she can just continue to talk, she can surely power through the thickening fog of her old age. ALTSCHUL: And you take that idea that was just a little nugget of a brother-sister, different worlds, different perspectives on meaning. See for yourself why we are the premier destination for quality apartment living and experience the possibilities of your new lifestyle in one of our Belleville apartments for rent.Featuring beautiful community spaces like a swimming pool, modern clubhouse, renovated fitness center, and dog park, you'll want to make The Waverly your first choice. And my older brother was gonna move in, but then he moved to Brazil. I mean, that kind of topic and the sadness, the grief, the loss. And this was a big deal for me. LONERGAN: Yeah. LONERGAN: Not too well! LONERGAN: And if you wanna do everything for them, you should direct it yourself (LAUGH) or shut up. People who are lucky who don't mind being in them and the ones that are very nice, if you can afford them, are great. ALTSCHUL: But in the grand scheme of things it's hard to wake up. The Waverly Gallery By Kenneth Lonergan Directed by Lila Neugebauer Broadway: Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th Street, New York, NY December 14, 2018 Reviewed by Scott Klavan Elaine May in The Waverly Gallery by Kenneth Lonergan, directed by Lila Neugebauer. Thus, when Gladys's deterioration escalates from eccentricity to complete deterioration, the younger generation can no longer just stay in touch. Just the last couple years of her functioning where, you know, it's a very slow, gradual decline. And she died, so that was the end of that. And it's nice to come in and save the day. And it's really hard to learn that, because you're, like, full of ideas of your own. Anyway, it seemed like this enormous thing that I really didn't know what to make of. I did two rewrites, studio rewrites, which were terrible. A lotta the dialogue I thought needed work, so I tried to make the dialogue scenes better. I'll visit once a week or I'll--" but often you have to do that, because there's no other practical way. And it was unusual because it wasn't an assignment and I didn't generate the material, but very quickly everything in the film became, it did generate after a short time, 'cause I wasn't able to write the script any other way. Request licence Get the Script Get an estimate It was pretty clear where it was working and where it wasn't. Well, I knew that from the beginning, but the more you learn to get out of their way and shut up. Current Totals: 12498 plays, 5653 writers, 356 monologues Title Author More about The Waverly Gallery: Play Details Monologues Add a Monologue Trivia Director's Notes Rate this Play Publisher's Website: Director's Notes for The Waverly Gallery No Notes have been entered yet for this play. I'm movin' in"? Do you know those characters? I was outta college, and was living in an apartment on Bank Street that I was subletting from my brother-in-law. As far as caring for elderly and people with dementia, aging people with Alzheimer's or any of these diseases, not much has changed today. I don't wanna know anything about you or your life or anything." The play premiered on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre on September 25, 2018 in previews, officially on October 25. And it can be really fun to try to do that. She was a member of the American Labor Party. You know, had had some close friends who were older go through real difficult medical situations. It's just about coming to terms as a young person realizing that everybody's really doing their own thing. And then the fact when people put their faith in you, sometimes you try to live up to it. Even if you have the wherewithal to do it, it's almost impossible. You know, can be really good. I was young. Just watch the extended "Margaret," the extended edition. And especially as you're becoming an adult, and becoming not just a function of your family and your parents, to be facing the complexity of the rest of the world, and the fact that other people are just as important as you are at that moment when your own ego is identifying itself, is a very tricky moment in life. Or the locks on the doors, the gas on the stove, or just arrangements of who's gonna take so-and-so to the doctor, to the eye doctor, and that becomes a big part of your life. Auditions drew a talented cast of newcomers and alumni. I never wanted to be a screenwriter or a director, or I didn't at first. You know, it's not just awful. And then what happens? LONERGAN: Yeah. If you borrow a character from your life, you can borrow their entire biography. They're talking." I mean, nobody knows why anybody's good at anything. It's hard to get these productions up. And her personality is very vivid. Morrissey May 02, 2019 May 11, 2019 . Of course, Lonergan is talented, too. The playwright's story of family relationships and dementia, now on Broadway in a revival starring Elaine May, Joan Allen and Lucas Hedges, recalls his grandmother's last years in decline. And it's something that some people never come to terms with. ALTSCHUL: Right. But this is a tragedy, even if it is a minor one, and its a tragedy familiar to anyone who has seen dementia up close. ALTSCHUL: So, "Waverly Gallery," "This Is Our Youth," pieces of yours that just stand the test of time. That you have to have some flexibility with what you do with the script. And their loneliness, their isolation, their confusion, their anxiety, real and unreal. Make them more approachable? Between Riverside and Crazy: Wild and Wonderful New York Story ALTSCHUL: So Martin Scorsese says to you, "I need your help. Retrying. And then it gives you that whole word, and the whole thing starts to come into place. Joanne Woodward filled in for an ailing Eileen Heckart in the final four performances.[3]. And it works fine. She did a lot of work on housing issues. The show, first produced Off-Broadway in 2000, follows a grandson watching his grandmother slowly die from Alzheimer's disease. I was just sitting there typing. She is one of five stellar cast members, notably Lucas . And I have no religious faith at all, but I'm curious about people who do. But also I was trying to do with the it's always weird to talk about your own work. I got a lotta money for it. LONERGAN: Yeah. And Matt was gonna direct it and he was also gonna be in it. "[1], The Waverly Gallery was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001. From the moment Gladys Green opens her mouth which is the moment that the curtain rises on Kenneth Lonergans wonderful play The Waverly Gallery at the Golden Theater its clear that for this garrulous woman, idle conversation isnt a time killer. They had, like six projects backed up and there was a teeny window which closed. And so they basically come to you with their problems, and then also say, "And if you have other problems with the script, you know, let us know what you think, and maybe we should address those, too.". (CHUCKLES). And there's not exactly a plot in "Waverly Gallery," but there's this progression. Why? And she also had a profound understanding of how elusive it can be. It seems very interesting. I like these two characters. ALTSCHUL: You go to the original. The Waverly Gallery is a small play. So they actually delayed shooting for a couple of weeks because they needed to work on the script. I have a film I'm trying to write. Productions [ edit] "Yeah, I'm gonna live in grandma's building. October 25, 2018 by Jonathan Mandell. ALTSCHUL: When did the idea kind of start saying, "I'm a play"? ALTSCHUL: Yes. Yeah, smart (LAUGH) and smart-alecky [kids]! ALTSCHUL: Once you've written something and put it down on paper, does it then inhabit a separate space from your memory? And it's hard, it's not really for me to say. It's very expensive to pay for someone else to do it. The real estate wasn't sky-high in those days. ALTSCHUL: And it gives you confidence. Not to quote myself, but there's a moment in the play when the narrator, the grandson says, "It feels like there's some option, but you just can't figure out what it is.". That she has clearly already lost this battle makes her no less valiant. For a movie, if you're not gonna direct it you might as well say goodbye to the material forever, if you're the writer. And the play, heavily based on Lonergans own grandmother, is a lovely and faltering and probably ultimately inadequate way to make up for that. ALTSCHUL: It was 20 years ago that you were writing "The Waverly Gallery." 'The Waverly Gallery' is about the final years of a generous, chatty, and feisty grandmother's final battle against Alzheimer's disease. Who kinda guided you there? And in the play the gallery's taken away before she's really ready to get out of it, and it seems so gratuitous, 'cause she would have been gone a year later anyway. ALTSCHUL: Both of your parents were psychiatrists. (LAUGHS) So then it's very simple to understand that you shouldn't talk! ALTSCHUL: So "Manchester by the Sea" was profoundly sad, disturbing, moving, emotional, let's just say very, very sad. ALTSCHUL: So, you would have to say, "Mom, things have progressed here. Lucas Hedges and Elaine May in The Waverly Gallery by Kenneth Lonergan, directed by Lila Neugebauer. That character's somewhat invented. LONERGAN: Yeah. In a shattering moment, a teary Daniel hugs his mother tight, and you know that hes wondering if his relationship with Ellen might one day mirror that of Ellens with Gladys. And then they ended up making the film a few years later. But anyway, my father read something that I had written and he said, "Your dialogue is very good." ALTSCHUL: What was your experience with that process? And how the brain works and how people make the choices they make? Sign In. The show, first produced Off-Broadway in 2000, follows a grandson watching his grandmother slowly die from Alzheimer's disease. And we ended up casting Casey. . Elaine May who has not been on a Theater stage for fifty years is just magnificent. LONERGAN: [As Matthew Broderick put it], it's my most literally autobiographical work. LONERGAN: Yeah, they had an idea for a movie that they liked. ALTSCHUL: Did you ever think you would be interested in being an analyst or a psychologist? "Lucas Hedges' final monologue in The Waverly Gallery destroyed me. One might think, "Oh, well, that's, you know, kind of a simple play. The pictures are good. The structure builds from the inside-out. It's just you have to invent less when you're using real life. Click here to download the monologue. ALTSCHUL: I guess what I'm asking is, why write it? If I could say in a sentence, I wouldn't be taking up three hours of anyone's time. And so that's who you're dealing with, and they have to be treated with that respect at the same time you have to take care of them. I don't think it was too much to cope, I was. She was somehow connected in with real estate, as she always found apartments for everyone, her friends and family I mean. And I don't know how she does that. I loved that man, I would have done anything for him. That movie was so late in the process that every other movie I've ever script doctored, they always rewrite you after you're done anyway. Because Matt Damon and John Krazinski came to me with the idea for the story. "The Waverly Gallery" is narrated by Gladys's grandson, Daniel, the Lonergan stand-in, who has a penchant for wry, detached sarcasm. ALTSCHUL: So you take the script and there are specific characters that he gives you an assignment? And my grandmother owned this eight-unit building in the Village and this huge apartment in the back, which was $900 a month in 1986, which was a lot for me, became available, 'cause the guy who'd lived there for 17 years moved to Texas. Tickets and information: . But it also is sort of the idea of an attempt to do a play in some kind of documentary theatricalization, 'cause it's very literal, and the events are not written in any way as to try to compress or bend the reality to make it more like a story. The Waverly Gallery is a play by Kenneth Lonergan. Kenneth Lonergan's grandmother, with her pet Dalmatian. Playwright Kenneth Lonergan is so obsessed with telling Gladys' story and creating her . And really the bonds are very strong. I miss huge swaths of experience, but (LAUGHS) of little pieces that I remember, I remember pretty well. ALTSCHUL: And that was what you wanted to make. Even if initially they were making a mistake. The Waverly Gallery is a play by Kenneth Lonergan. LONERGAN: Well, it gives you backup. LONERGAN: Well, I just [had] one small theatre experience after another. The other is that when you do direct you can kinda see why you might not want the writer hanging around, because there's so much you have to do that is not to do with the script. ALTSCHUL: I mean that's what it is about, right? Which is how it turned out. Or is it still all blended together? I don't know why. ALTSCHUL: Well, there was a lot of beautiful things in that film to look at. And just to hasten the inevitable by kind of taking people away from their homes and away from their lives because they become an inconvenience, is really not great. Mistakes? IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information. [8]), Charles Isherwood in Variety said, "The life trauma being depicted has an inherent pathos, and in Lonergan's hands, no small amount of comic potential. The play was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001. They're there to support and pay for the film, and they're very anxious about how it's gonna turn out. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection bid, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. From the moment Gladys Green opens her mouth which is the moment that the curtain rises on Kenneth Lonergan's wonderful play "The Waverly Gallery" at the Golden Theater it's clear that for this garrulous woman, idle conversation isn't a time killer. Gladys Green owns a small art gallery in Greenwich Village. And then I also noticed, not to be immodest, that I often had an idea about how the scene could be played out. Or a film. ALTSCHUL: And the gallery itself, there wasn't much going on there in the end. In a bold move Shakespeare & Company has . But I think if all that happened to you in two days, you'd think you'd had quite an eventful weekend. Gladys declines from scene to scene, a decline that the gallerys closing quickens. I was asked to come on two weeks before they were supposed to start shooting. Part of the painful pleasure of The Waverly Gallery is listening to how these characters listen to Gladys, and how, in responding to her, they come to question the reliability of their own words. The Waverly Gallery, now revived on Broadway, is an early play by Kenneth Lonergan and as directed by Lila Neugebauer and upraised by Elaine Mays toweringly fragile performance, it is as quietly and ferociously sad as anything he has ever produced. [67], " 'Waverly Gallery', Eileen Heckart, Take Their Final Exit, May 21", "Woodward Subbed for Heckart at Lonergan's Williamstown Gallery", "Elaine May, Lucas Hedges & Michael Cera To Star In Broadway Premiere Of Kenneth Lonergan's 'The Waverly Gallery', "The Band's Visit Director David Cromer Joins Cast of 'The Waverly Gallery' on Broadway", " 'The Waverly Gallery' Begins Previews on Broadway September 25", " 'The Waverly Gallery', Starring Elaine May, Closes on Broadway January 27", "Picture of a Family in Crisis Hangs in 'The Waverly Gallery'", "Nominations for the 2019 Drama Desk Awards Announced; 'Oklahoma! She'd always know what you were doing. The characters dont grow or change, they just hang around. ALTSCHUL: And you were caring for her, in some ways, during that time? This pseudonym is very simple and uncomplicated. (LAUGHS). We went right to Casey after Matt became unavailable. It's funny, though, because it's still attached to the real events that inspire it. He writes speeches for the Environmental Protection . It is a lifeli That could have just been something people just retreated from, but it didn't. (CHUCKLES). Do you think that had an influence on your ability to bring so much understanding and depth and character analysis? LONERGAN: I'm sure it did. And that's something interesting, there's a natural dramatic content in there. Where did you hone that? Let's start with my childhood: I had a happy childhood thanks to my parents. And I got to know her tastes a little bit, and I got to understand where they diverged from mine. Yeah, I'm sure that's true. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. He's very smart. Packer must have felt a certain frisson at taking on "The Waverly Gallery," no less than her leading actor, Annette Miller, a veteran of 22 seasons at SS & Co, who plays the role of Gladys. But you're not there to express yourself. But then sometimes they just reach out and there they are. and particularly his monologue at the end which was certainly powerful stuff. And the intervals between scenes which feature vintage street photography projections (by Tal Yarden) feel ponderously long. The Waverly Gallery is nominated for two Tony Awards, Best Revival of a Play and Best Leading Actress in a Play for Elaine May. Photo credit: Brigitte Lacombe. Elaine May is back on a Broadway stage after more than 50 years, and making the most of it in The Waverly Gallery, Kenneth Lonergan's meticulously observed, funny and sad play about a woman's decline and its effect on her family. So that's how that came about. ALTSCHUL: Oh my gosh. LONERGAN: I do, yeah. At 86, Ms. May in her first Broadway appearance in more than 50 years turns out to be just the star to nail the rhythms, the comedy and the pathos of a woman whos talking as fast as she can to keep her place in an increasingly unfamiliar world. Daniel Day Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York. The "lot" is contextual: The 86-year-old comedy dynamo Elaine May is returning to Broadway for the . When push came to shove, I failed him. In what is a chock full of Theater, "The Waverly Gallery" is another great one. [66] That same year, May's film A New Leaf was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". LONERGAN: I would have tried to. And it was really exciting. November 11, 2018 / 10:16 AM Just you feel you do want it to stand on its own and not require your descriptions of it. And it's unfortunate, 'cause people kind of hasten an end that's inevitable and doesn't have to be quite as separate. Find The Waverly Gallery stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. So, I had this idea about a brother and a sister, just started to think what it means to me. Writer Kenneth Lonergan's "The Waverly Gallery" is a story of family relationships and a grandmother's last years in decline. LONERGAN: When he realizes that he's being more of a backseat driver as a playwright than he ought to be. She is in her 80s and showing signs of Alzheimer's disease. And I thought, "Oh gee. You can know a lot more about them they you might know about a character that you have invented. Is The Waverly Gallery Good for Kids? And the moments where there's, you know, laughter or that easiness or understanding. LONERGAN: Yeah, it is hard. (LAUGHS) 'Cause they don't really need you telling them everything all the time. LONERGAN: No, no. Ill admit that several times I thought shed missed a line or fluffed one, but when I went back and read the script, there was everything shed said. I wanted to be a playwright, but you can't make any money as a playwright unless you're a very big deal. Ms. May, right, portrays a gallery owner who shows work by a struggling artist (Michael Cera, left), while her grandson (Lucas Hedges) worries about her health. And this play particularly has a real strong presence as just flat-out memories. There was a problem previewing The Flick.pdf. One part is that that's the convention for screenplays in this country. And I think the main thing about it is that the person is still as alive as you are, and they can't be relegated into the status of an invalid. ALTSCHUL: And just walk in the other direction--. People don't quite have to be as separated from the company of others as sometimes we separate them, in this culture anyway. LONERGAN: She's a brilliant woman. 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