Restricted largely to a setting of conference rooms in second-rank hotels, they take pains to notice whether the chairs are leather or Naugahyde, and whether the curtains are clean.
The actors sport hand-sewn satin gowns and rugged leather coats against a realistic backdrop of swampy, methane stench-ridden Five Points and the clean-swept cream-colored sidewalks of Fifth Avenue on a 212, 500 square-foot studio lot.