"Top Drawer"

Personal Memoir From Manhattan to Havana in Solo Show "Top Drawer"

Writer-performer Adelaide Mestre's award-winning solo show "Top Drawer" is a poignant musical memoir that recounts a life of privilege and secrets, from growing up on Manhattan's Upper East Side among artists and over-the-top personalities to traveling to Havana to seek out her deceased father's cherished piano. In story and song, Mestre chronicles her life with her mother, a thrice-married, opera-singing socialite with impossible top-drawer standards, and her father, a gay, Cuban, manic-depressive concert pianist. Travel with Mestre as she learns of a famous speech her grandfather gave against Castro, recovers old recordings of her father playing the piano with an orchestra in Havana in 1954 and shares her discovery that art can help transform loss and abandonment into freedom, when "Top Drawer" returns to NYC's The Triad.