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Angels in America
Part One:
Millennium Approaches
Act One - Bad News
October - November 1985
Scene 1 - A Jewish funeral
Scene 2 - The office of Roy Cohn
Scene 3 - The apartment of Joe and Harper Pitt
Scene 4 - A bench near the park
Scene 5 - Same day - Grave site and the Pitt's Apartment
Scene 6 - Men's Room at Federal Courthouse
Scene 7 - A mutual dream of Prior & Harper
Scene 8 - Pitt's apartment & Prior & Louis' apartment
Scene 9 - A doctor's office
Intermission # 1
Act Two - In Vitro
The first week of December 1985
Scene 1 - Prior & Louis' apartment
Scene 2 - The apartment of Joe and Harper Pitt
Scene 3 - One am at Prior's hospital room
Scene 4 - Same night - A bar in Manhattan & Central Park
Scene 5 - Several days later at Prior's hospital room
Scene 6 - A Manhattan bar
Scene 7 - On the steps of the hall of Justice in Brooklyn
Scene 8 - Payphone in the Park & Salt Lake City
Scene 9 - Joe and Harper's apartment & a hospital room
Scene 10 - Hannah's home in Salt Lake City
Intermission # 2
Act Three - Not-Yet-Conscious, Forward Dawning
December 1985
Scene 1 - Prior's bedroom - a dream
Scene 2 - An exam room and a outdoor cafe
Scene 3 - Harper's fantasy in Antartica
Scene 4 - An abandoned lot in South Bronx
Scene 5 - Roy Cohn's brownstone home
Scene 6 - Prior's bedroom - a dream
Scene 7 - Prior's bedroom same night - this is no dream
Curtain - Running time approximately 3 hours
Angels in America
Part Two:
Perestroika
Act One - Spooj
December 1985
Scene 1 - The Great Hall of Deputies
Scene 2 - The same night as the end of Millennium Approaches - Louis' new apartment in Alphabet-land
Scene 3 - The same night - Harper in Antartica
Scene 4 - The same night - Joe and Harper's apartment
Scene 5 - The same night. Prior's bedroom & Belize at the hospital
Act Two - The Anti-Migratory Epistle
January 1986
Scene 1 - 3 weeks later. A street outside a funeral parlor
Scene 2 -3 weeks earlier Prior's bedroom
Scene 3 - 3 weeks later. A street outside a funeral parlor
Act Three - Borborygmi
(The Squirming Facts Exceed the Squamous Mind)
January 1986
Scene 1 - Several days later. The Pitt apartment & Louis' Apartment
Scene 2 - Same day. Roy Cohn's hospital room
Scene 3 - Same day. The diorama room of the Mormon Visitor Center
Scene 4 - Late that afternoon. Jones beach, Prior's bedroom, & a payphone in Brooklyn
Intermission # 1
Act Four - John Brown's Body
January 1986
Scene 1 - Two days later. Roy Cohn's hospital room
Scene 2 - Same day. A bench near the park
Scene 3 - Night of the following day. Roy Cohn's hospital room
Scene 4 - The next day - Joe's office at the Hall of Justice
Scene 5 - The next day. The Bethesda Fountain in Central Park
Scene 6 - Same day. Mormon Visitor Center reception desk
Scene 7 - Same day late afternoon. The Promenade in Brooklyn Heights overlooking the river
Scene 8 - That night. Exam room in St Vincent's ER
Scene 9 - Same night - Joe & Harper's apartment
Scene 10 - Later that night. Louis' apartment
Scene 11 - Later that night. Roy Cohn's hospital room
Intermission # 2
Act Five - Heaven, I'm in Heaven
January 1986
Scene 1 - Very late the same night. Prior's hospital room
Scene 2 - Prior in Heaven
Scene 3 - 2 am same night. Roy Cohn's hospital room
Scene 4 - Joe Pitt's Apartment
Scene 5 - Heaven: in the Council Room of the Hall of the Continental
Principalities.
Scene 6 - Prior returns from Heaven
Scene 7 - Joe & Harper's Apartment and Prior's hospital room
Scene 8 - Somewhere over America
Epilogue - Bethesda
January 1990
Early Morning. The Bethesda Fountain in Central Park.
Curtain - Running time approximately 3 1/2 hours
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