STAGE TUBE: A Taste of PERFECT ARRANGEMENT, Topher Payne's Biting Comedy About The Lavender Scare

Primary Stages offers a taste of Topher Payne's biting new comedy, PERFECT ARRANGEMENT, about the 1950s American witch hunt known as The Lavender Scare. Two young married couples, Bob and Millie and Jim and Norma, seem to be living idyllic lives torn out of the pages of Life Magazine, but they're hiding their true identities as two gay couples.

When Bob and Norma, two state workers, are assigned to check into the backgrounds of government employees and fire any "deviants," the quartet has to decide whether to keep hiding or to fight back.

Primary Stages, in association with Amy Danis, Mark Johannes, and Dan Shaheen, presents Perfect Arrangement, a New York premiere by Topher Payne (Swell Party, The Only Light in Reno) and directed by Michael Barakiva (White People). The limited engagement runs now through November 6, 2015 at Primary Stages at The Duke on 42nd Street - a New 42nd Street project. Opening night is tonight, October 15 at 7PM. BroadwayWorld has a look at the cast in action below!

PERFECT ARRANGEMENT features Drama Desk nominee Julia Coffey (London Wall), Robert Eli(Saturn Returns, Tartuffe on Broadway), Mikaela Feely-Lehmann(Cyrano de Bergerac on Broadway),Christopher J. Hanke(How to Succeed..., Buyer and Cellar), Kelly McAndrew(Abundance, Almost, Maine),Kevin O'Rourke (The City of Conversation, "Boardwalk Empire") and Jennifer Van Dyck (The Divine Sister, Hedda Gabler).

In Topher Payne's biting comedy, Perfect Arrangement, it's 1950 and new colors are being added to the Red Scare. Two U.S. State Department employees, Bob and Norma, have been tasked with identifying sexual deviants within their ranks. The twist: Both Bob and Norma are gay, and have married each other's partners as a carefully constructed cover. Inspired by the true story of the earliest stirrings of the American gay rights movement, madcap "I Love Lucy" sitcom-style laughs give way to provocative drama as two "All-American" couples are forced to stare down the closet door, confronting the very struggles facing society today.

PERFECT ARRANGEMENT includes scenic design by Neil Patel, costume design by Jennifer Caprio, lighting design by Traci Klainer Polimeni, sound design by Ryan Rumery, hair and wig design by J. Jared Janas, and casting by Stephanie Klapper Casting.