This play’s author noted that “it’s OK if the wires show” but “the magic should… be thoroughly amazing” in its staging notes. In this play’s opening scene, the question “Eric? This is a Jewish name?” is asked during a Rabbi’s oration at a character’s grandmother’s funeral. A man “Of the International Order of Travel Agents” appears before a character in this play as she hallucinates tasting ozone in Antarctica. In this play, whose epilogue is set at the Bethesda Fountain, a man who dies while claiming to have liver cancer mentors Joe Pitt and is haunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg. For 10 points, a former drag queen cares for Prior Walter after he is abandoned by Louis Ironson in what play by Tony Kushner set amidst the AIDS epidemic? ■END■
ANSWER: Angels in America [or Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes; prompt on Perestroika or Millennium Approaches]
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