Top Drawer is writer and performer Adelaide Mestre’s award-winning show about love, family, trauma and triumph.
The show takes place in both the past and present, as the audience follows Adelaide on her journey to Cuba to seek out her deceased father’s piano, left behind when her family fled in 1960. In flashbacks, she 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. In story and song, she share about her parents doomed love affair, her father’s struggle with his homosexuality, and his eventual tragic suicide. With sentiment and humor she 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.