Goodbye, Fay Wray
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Die! Mommy! Die!
by Charles Busch
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Synopsis
Comic melodrama. Little Theatre.
Characters: 3 male.
3 female.
Interior set.
Newly revised!
This comic melodrama evokes the 1960's movie thrillers that featured such aging cinematic icons as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner and Susan Hayward.
Faded pop singer, Angela Andrews, is trapped in a corrosive marriage to film producer, Sol Sussman.
In her attempt to find happiness with her younger lover, an out of work TV star, Angela murd
Press Reviews
"Die Mommie Die!, which runs a peppy 90 minutes, is infused with the good-natured comic brio that has made Mr. Busch a drag artist whom middle America can embrace. Even theatergoers who don’t catch the copious old-movie quotations, verbal and physical, should enjoy Mr. Busch’s hair-trigger comic timing and rubbery mugging, which brings to mind vintage Lucille Ball."
— The New York Times
"Thanks to Busch’s script and exceptional leading perf, the surfaces of this comedy-thriller – about the murderous meltdown of the pre-Nixon Hollywood family – roll back to reveal provocative statements about the power women can lose when a man walks into the room."
— Variety
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| Bootsie Carp |
| Tony Parker |
| Angela Arden |
| Sol Sussman |
| Lance Sussman |
| Edith Sussman |
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Publisher Samuel French
Year 2005
Binding Paperback
Pages 90
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573623608
ISBN-10 0573623600
LCCN 2006462652
LCC PS3552.U813 D54 2005
Die! Mommy! Die! is a American mystery play written by Charles Busch and published by Samuel French in New York (2005).
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Fee: Minimum Fee: $120 per performance
Restrictions: Major Markets Only (US) / Standard Restriction (UK)
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