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Cover, Bay Area Reporter (March 4, 1976), headlined
Jack Fritscher’s play, Coming Attractions, double-billed
with Lanford Wilson’s The Madness of Lady Bright.” Com-
ing Attractions (1973) was the first gay play written and
produced in San Francisco about life on Castro Street.
Actor Michael Lewis who starred in both plays was the
founding owner of the gay small business, the Nelly Deli,
inside Dave’s Baths where one lazy afternoon, serving Jack
Fritscher a cup of coffee, he mentioned that his Yonkers
Production Company was looking for new one-act plays.
Fritscher wrote the short story for Coming Attractions in
1972. The story and play were published together in the
anthology Sweet Embraceable You: Coffee-House Stories.
B.A.R. cover used with permission.
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