10 Dec 1996
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Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes of a charming perpetual bachelor questioning his single state and his enthusiastically married, slightly envious friends.
Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU
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