Most of the movie takes place at the Variety Theater at 110 Third Avenue. Movies like Taxi Driver and Desperately Seeking Susan were filmed there. The Variety stopped showing films in the fall of 1989. It was torn down in 2005.
Besides the Variety Theater, other adult / pornography theaters can be seen including: Cine 4, Peepland, The Anco, Circus Cinema, Avon 7, Frisco Theater, The Pussycat Playhouse, and the Roxy Burlesque.
Release in 1981, it was filmed in 1980. Spalding Gray mentions Jimmy Carter who was still President at the time and the movie Ordinary People that premiered in September of 1980.
A single shot of the exterior of St. Malachy Roman Catholic Church in New York City was filmed. St. Malachy's is known as the Actors' Chapel.
Several performers from the Wooster Group including Spalding Gray and Nancy Reilly star in this short. Mark Boone Junior also performed at the Group's home in the Performing Garage at 33 Wooster Street in New York City.