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Goodbye, Gorgeous! Buyer & Cellar Sets Closing Date Off-Broadway; Eyes London Run

Curtain Up

Does Babs Have a New Employee Handbook? Barrett Foa Begins Performances in Buyer & Cellar Off-Broadway

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Barrett Foa Will Step into Babs' Basement in Buyer & Cellar Off-Broadway!

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Christopher J. Hanke on Sending Up American Treasure Barbra Streisand in Buyer & Cellar

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Hot Shot

First Look! See New Buyer & Cellar Star Christopher J. Hanke Getting Up Close & Personal with Babs

Curtain Up

Hello, Gorgeous! Christopher J. Hanke Steps in as Streisand Basement Employee in Buyer & Cellar

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Exit Interview

Was It Babtastic?! Buyer & Cellar Star Michael Urie Looks Back on His Year in Barbra Streisand’s Basement

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Riding a Sugar High at Schmackary’s with Buyer & Cellar’s Michael Urie on Side by Side

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Previews: Jun 18, 2013 • Closing: Jul 27, 2014

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Christopher J. Hanke on Sending Up American Treasure Barbra Streisand in Buyer & Cellar

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Greenwich House Theater

27 Barrow Street
New York, NY 10014

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Story

What Is the Story of Buyer & Cellar?
Inspired by Barbra Streisand’s My Passion for Design, Buyer & Cellar is part truth, part fiction. The facts? Streisand has a shopping mall in the basement of her Malibu home, featuring a doll shop, an antique clothing store and a sweets shop, complete with a frozen yogurt machine, as detailed in her 2010 book. Playwright Jonathan Tolins takes the wackiness a step further as he imagines a man who is hired to work in the basement of the mall…with Babs as his only customer. The one-man show tells the story of Alex More, a struggling Los Angeles actor who takes a gig working in the basement mall, and develops an unlikely and hilarious friendship with Streisand.

Reviews

"Tolins handles this subtext with such subtlety that we’re hardly aware of the chill that creeps into the basement of this fantasy world, and Urie gives such a nuanced reading of Alex’s devastating social blunder that it’s a big shock when the lights go out on Main Street."

Variety

Marilyn Stasio

"A reflection on all of us 'struggling to make a perfect little world to fit our life into,' it’s a seriously funny and remarkably sustained slice of absurdist whimsy on which both Barbra lovers and haters will be sold."

The New York Times

David Rooney