The Last Mile is a short (15 minute) comedy-drama written by Terrence McNally for Public television's Great Performances 20th Anniversary Special (1992). The play, directed by Paul Bogart, is set backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House as a soprano (Bernadette Peters) is getting ready to make her Met debut in the opera Tosca. The stage manager (Nathan Lane) gives her encouraging advice and she is visited by her "tenor for the evening" (Paul Sorvino). She is nervous and excited, and thinks fondly of her brother (Tony Goldwyn), who died from AIDS. He appears to her in her dressing room as a ghostly apparition.
The Special was shown on American Public television stations in October 1992.
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Produced and orginally shown as part of the twentieth anniversary celebration for "Great Performances" (1972).
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence. Written by Snow Leopard
