TOP DRAWER: Dysfunction and Redemption from Park Avenue to Havana, is writer and performer Adelaide Mestre’s autobiographical story of her journey to Cuba to seek out her deceased father’s piano, left behind when her family fled in 1960. A poignant musical memoir that recounts a life of privilege and secrets, from the Upper East Side of Manhattan to the old city streets of Havana. The show takes place in both the past and present, as the audience follows her on her quest to reclaim her family’s heritage. In flashbacks, she chronicles her life growing up with her mother, a thrice married, opera-singing socialite with impossible top-drawer standards, and her father, a gay, Cuban, manic-depressive concert pianist. With sentiment and humor she spins a tale of dysfunction and redemption and, ultimately, shares her discovery that art can be a kind of alchemy that transmutes loss and abandonment into freedom. TOP DRAWER will make you laugh, cry and maybe even... sing.
