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Adelaide Mestre’s award-winning show “Top Drawer” will be performed at SCC on October 22. COURTESY THE ARTIST
Adelaide Mestre’s award-winning show “Top Drawer” will be performed at SCC on October 22. COURTESY THE ARTIST
Adelaide Mestre’s award-winning show “Top Drawer” will be performed on Sunday, October 22, at 4 p.m. at the Southampton Cultural Center.
The show is a staged musical memoir about Mestre’s search for a Steinway grand piano that belonged to her father, a Cuban exile, who fled Cuba in 1960 at the time of the revolution. The show chronicles her life growing up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side 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, Mestre 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.
Adelaide Mestre is an actress, singer, writer and solo show performer who has performed in numerous theatrical productions, musicals, cabarets and films including Woody Allen’s “Husbands and Wives.” “Top Drawer” was first presented at the New York International Fringe and has gone on to be produced at the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora and cities around the country.
Southampton Cultural Center is at 25 Pond Lane in Southampton. Tickets are $40 at scc-arts.org/top-drawer/.
Staff Writer on Oct 14, 2023