Barry Glickman

**Barry Glickman** is a narcissistic Broadway actor.

The musical opens on Broadway, where *Eleanor!: The Eleanor Roosevelt Story* is celebrating its opening night with Barry Glickman being one of its lead cast members. The musical is bashed by *The New York Times* because Barry does not understand his character since he is too self-involved, resulting in the show closing on opening night. He teams up with three other actors to take up "a cause" to appear selfless and improve their image. After searching on Twitter for a cause, they find Emma, a teenager from Indiana whose prom was cancelled by the Parent-Teacher Association because she wanted to bring her girlfriend. Seeing the opportunity, and some personal connection, the actors decide to go to Indiana to help.

Emma agrees to let Barry dress her for the prom.

At Emma's grandmother's house, Barry reveals that he left his house before his parents had the chance to make him leave.

Emma and Barry go to the mall and pick out her outfit.

Barry tries to convince Dee Dee to talk to her ex-husband, Eddie Sharp, in an attempt to get Emma screen time. However, she refuses as she would have to give up her house in The Hamptons as a result.

Barry denies Dee Dee's idea of calling his mother and getting closure with her.

At a restaurant by the motel, Emma asks Barry if he would be her date to the prom and he happily accepts, telling her that he has never actually been to prom because he was too scared to ask out a boy in his grade.

Outside Hawkins' office, Dee Dee reveals to Barry that she called his mother, Vera, and that she is at the school to talk to him. Vera tells Barry that she cannot undo what she has already done and that his father is not quite ready to talk yet but that she accepts him and wants a relationship with her son. They make up and all go to decorate the gym for the prom.

Barry is crowned prom queen, and the dance begins.

## Facts

He played FDR in Eleanor!: The Eleanor Rosevelt Story.

He is gay.

He hadn't spoken to his mother in 30 years before reuniting with her.

He has back problems.

He agrees that the electoral college should be abolished.

He lives in New York City.

He is a liberal democrat from broadway.

He is Jewish.

He likes cabins.

He has a Drama Desk award.

He likes shopping at Saks.

He doesn't like K-mart.

He has a few party dresses in his closet for emergencies.

He is a FedEx customer.

If he has to shop at a lower end store, he prefers the Tammy Wynette collection.

He likes "the olds".

He was going to wear a silver tux with matching turquoise cummerbund and tie aqua blue contacts to his high school prom.

He never went to prom because he didn't have the courage.

He has make-up.

He has a pair of Spanx.

He sometimes refers to himself as "Uncle Barry" or "Ms. Glickman".

He doesn't think very fondly of PBS.

He is around 46.

He used to eat Cheetos as a kid.

He got blasted in the Times and they said he was a narcissist.

He bought a corset.

## Quotes

"We both have power. The power to change the world."

"So talking about yourself non-stop suddenly makes you a narcissist? I hate this world."

"With my back? Forget it."

"I’ll get Sheldon to tag along. He can find us a venue."

"Don’t you worry, Emma. You’re not alone! I’m as gay as a bucket of wigs!"

"...I have come all the way from New York City to save you!"

"And I’ll tell you something else. I’m Jewish too!"

"I haven’t spoken to my mother in 30 years."

"...I like “the olds.”"

"If you don’t hurry up you’ll be meeting my drag alter-ego, Carol Channing Tatum."

"I never went to my prom because" ... "I didn’t have your courage."

"They might as well be wearing a garbage bag with the word “whore” spray-painted on it, you know why? Because they’re whores. Only kidding. It’s because they don’t have the glow you have right now."

"Emma? Can we come in? We brought Häagen-Dazs."

"That PTA woman, who does she think she is?"

"No! We are not leaving."

"Judy Woodruff? She’s on PBS. Nobody watches PBS. You might as well have her sit down with a rock in a box."

"Hey, honey, we screwed things up every step of the way. If you have a plan, I have faith. You’re smarter than all of us put together. I just wish there was a prom waiting for you at the end of all this."

"Don’t make me cry. I look so fat...when I cry."

"It's like I'm suddenly seventeen." ... "After twenty-nine years I'm finally going to prom!"

"This video is killing me. This is worse than the one about the guy being reunited with the lion he raised from a cub." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvCjyWp3rEk)

"[Emma] said she had something up her sleeve. She’s so smart, that kid."

"I don’t care if we decorate that gym with our own blood and hair - Emma is getting the prom she deserves!"

"Here. You can charge up to 10,000. That’s my limit. It’s a long story, but I had to declare bankruptcy after my self-produced “Peter Pan.”"

"And who would have guessed our tiny jaded hearts would be a place empathy thrives?!"

"[The Hoosier pie] is delicious, but that’s not what I’m talking about."

"...but we don’t actually know how to build anything."

"Listen to me, this prom is happening and there’s not a damn thing you or your flying monkeys can do about it."

"Maybe I'll wear a tiara when it's "go" time"