LINCOLN CENTER THEATER’S ACCLAIMED PRODUCTION
OF THE NEW OPERA INTIMATE APPAREL
HAS BEEN RECORDED FOR BROADCAST BY GREAT PERFORMANCES ON PBS
Music by RICKY IAN GORDON; Libretto by LYNN NOTTAGE;
Directed by BARTLETT SHER
The March 3 and 5 performances of Broadway’s Intimate Apparel were recorded for future broadcast by PBS’s Great Performances. The broadcast version is a production of Lincoln Center Theater and the Metropolitan Opera in association with The WNET Group.
Set in turn of the century New York, Intimate Apparel tells the story of Esther (Kearstin Piper Brown), a lonely, single African-American woman who makes her living sewing beautiful corsets and ladies’ undergarments. Seeking love and romance, Esther embarks on a letter writing relationship with a mysterious suitor laboring on the Panama Canal and comes to realize that only her self-reliance and certainty of her own worth will see her through life’s challenges.
Intimate Apparel also features Justin Austin, Errin Duane Brooks, Chanáe Curtis, Adrienne Danrich, Jesse Darden, Arnold Livingston Geis, Tesia Kwarteng, Anna Laurenzo, Barrington Lee, Jasmine Muhammad, Naomi Louisa O’Connell, Adam Richardson, Kimberli Render, David Morgans Sanchez, Krysty Swann, Indra Thomas, Chabrelle Williams and Jorell Williams.
