Jamie Bernstein

But it tells the story of a challenged marriage, and sometimes it's funny, and sometimes it's really heartbreaking.

And the cool thing is that this opera that we're doing is being, Peter's going to be the conductor, but he's bringing in Jamie Bernstein, Leonard's daughter to come and direct the show.

So there's kind of a full circle moment there.

Peter became a conductor originally inspired by Leonard Bernstein's work.

Lenny and Felicia marry and start a family together, and their careers blossom, the former composing a series of successful operas and Broadway musicals, and the latter alternating between the stage and the screen.

But these work and domestic pursuits are in a constant tug of war with Lenny's attraction to men, a truth he hides from the world and denies himself, and one that Felicia is willing to accept as a necessary component of both his genius and his But as Leni's dalliances become less discreet and demand more of Felicia than she could reasonably be expected to give, as well as leading to rumours overheard by their daughter Jamie, played by Maya Hawke, there comes a point at which mutual denial becomes mutually assured destruction.

Will he be able to reconcile these disparate elements within him and live openly and happily, or will he continue to refuse to love and accept himself and die a lonely old queen? Will the summer, to quote Felicia, not my editorializing.

No, I liked it.

But I think it explores that really beautifully.

And particularly through her performance, you really feel that like, especially towards the end, there's that like devastating scene.

It's like all just a close up of her when she's at lunch with her daughter and Sarah Silverman's character.

um and she's talking about um you know the guy her potential suitor right yeah uh and it's just another um man who wants her to introduce her who wants her to introduce him to another man and she says like you know i really do have a type um something like that and it's just so it's