The Boys in the Brownstone:

Melodrama is on the loose in this story of the gay patrons of the Brownstone, a watering hole that's ""one part Carnival, two parts Bloomingdales."" A snowy Christmas weekend finds Brazilian Roberto newly separated from his wife and heading to the Brownstone to revel in his newfound independence. He's joined by Father Michael Dougherty and his handyman boyfriend, Wesley, and Frank, a disenchanted museum curator dating Brownstone piano player and recovering alcoholic Emmett. The vignettes trudge on with Ian Reath, a soap opera writer and son of a Presbyterian pastor whose decision to marry his boyfriend makes the talk show circuit. Attendees for Ian's nuptials include Joe, another Brownstone fixture, who has the hots for Ian's cheating husband-to-be, Bobby; closeted New York Times scribe Nathan, who misguidedly confesses his love for Ian; and Gopal, a playwright who tried to kill himself over Bobby. Everyone kvetches uncontrollably and sidles up to the piano for one of the Brownstone's show tune sing-a-longs for relief. There's more soap opera than story here, as Scott's stage is overcrowded with a motley assortment of incomplete, confusing characters. The Brownstone bar scenes prove the most affecting in this very, very light, occasionally charming, debut.