The cast - please excuse the cliché - blew me away. The crew at Ithaca College did an exceptional job. As revelations of illness and secrets come about, relationships deteriorate and an overwhelming fear of the future seems to cripple the characters. Their stories and lives overlap and intersect in weird and sometimes fantastical ways as the story moves through experiences of the AIDS crisis, homophobia, racism, and political tension and corruption. A bit more than a quarter century later, the social issues and themes explored in the play are ever-relevant, and as the first show in their 2017-18 season, Ithaca College presents the first part of the play, Millennium Approaches, directed by Robert Moss.Īngels in America is set in late 1985 in Manhattan, and follows a large cast-a gay couple, Prior Walter (Will Thames) and Louis Ironson (Josh Wilde) a Mormon couple, Joe (Ryan Ballard) and Harper Pitt (Steph Seiden) and Joe’s mentor Roy Cohn (Keenan Buckley), a lawyer with extremely questionable ethics (based on the real-life Roy Cohn). When Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes premiered in 1991, it won a smattering of awards for its intense exploration of pressing, contemporary topics.
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