The Destiny of Me

Unfortunately, I've never seen this on stage.

But I do believe (and please correct me if I'm wrong) that a certain poster known as Anthony Rapp replace John Cameron Mitchell in the piece.

You may want to ask him what that experience was like!

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I saw Destiny of Me when it ran off-Broadway about a decade ago, I guess, starring John Cameron Mitchell, Piper Laurie and Peter Frechette -- all of whom were wonderful. I thought at the time and still believe now that it's easily Kramer's masterwork, far superior in every way to A Normal Heart and his prose writing. An accomplished and mature work, it doesn't get bogged down in the sorts of didactic polemics that plague his other writing -- that it managed to be so rich and perceptive about gay issues and family dynamics made it all the more remarkable. Perhaps someone will revive it here one of these days.

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