"We kept going, 'Where are the cameras?'" "I remember more when we moved to the ," Gaines recalled. "I didn't know: How am I sending this up? Reading the script, it says, 'In outrageous mock camp.'" "It took us a while and it took me an audience or two to feel comfortable with that scene," Pinkham said. Both Gaines and Pinkham described that scene of the play as particularly challenging. One scene that marks their impressive professional achievements is a group interview on a television show alongside another long-term friend, Scoop Rosenbaum (Jason Biggs). "Heidi was sort of always his - not back-up plan - but that was where the dreamscape led to after school until somewhere in school he realized the truth about himself." Despite being unable to be together romantically, Peter and Heidi remain a constant presence in each other's lives as they live through tumultuous decades of political and social change. "It's actually as painful a truth to him as it is to her that now they actually can't be married," Pinkham added. Getting back to something Bryce said, which I think is absolutely right, I always thought that Peter is equally aware that they would be perfect together." For much of what Bryce is talking about, trying to find the right language - not protesting too much - not overplaying the hand. "I loved doing that scene, but I remember struggling with it early on. "There's just this one thing," Gaines echoed, adding that he found performing the scene where Peter comes out to Heidi to be challenging. The sort of beauty and tragedy of that scene is they are perfect for each other - with the exception of this one thing that keeps them apart." "That's actually the beauty and the tragedy in the scene where he comes out to her. "Pam and I agreed early on that the goal was to make perfect for Heidi in every way but one," Pinkham shared. In fact, Heidi and Peter's devotion to each other is a linchpin in the play. ![]() (Pinkham added that he and co-star Moss shared a duet on "Part Of Your World" from the Disney animated film "The Little Mermaid.")Īfter meeting at a high school dance, Heidi and Peter form a long-lasting friendship that continues through graduate and medical school, Peter's coming out and the AIDS crisis as the two seek personal and professional fulfillment. The focus on relationships is continued offstage Pinkham shared a post-show ritual of the revival cast: After certain performances, the cast sings karaoke together. What Heidi and Peter go through is trying to find out how to keep that friendship vital and re-invest in it." ![]() They're still my family, but really in my day-to-day life, my friends are my family. That felt so personal." Describing himself as a "transplant to New York for a specific profession, ambitious, career oriented," he added, "My family's in California. "That line itself was the reason I felt like I had to do the play. "To me, that's the gist of the piece," Pinkham said. (The first line Peter speaks to Heidi is inspired by the first thing Christopher Durang said to Wasserstein in class at Yale Drama School.) Throughout her life, Wasserstein was known for her expansive network of friends, which is reflected in The Heidi Chronicles, especially in Peter and Heidi's relationship when Peter tells Wendy, "In our lives, our friends are our families." Wasserstein, who received the Tony Award for Best Play and Pulitzer Prize for Drama, modeled Peter after several of her good friends. Pinkham, a Tony nominee for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder who has also appeared on Broadway in Ghost the Musical and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, stars in current the revival with Elisabeth Moss and Jason Biggs. A four-time Tony Award winner, Gaines made his Broadway debut in the 1989 production of The Heidi Chronicles, earning his first Tony for Featured Actor in a Play in the role of the ambitious and witty aspiring pediatrician.
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