Die! Mommy! Die!
by Charles Busch

Name: Die! Mommy! Die!
Brand: Charles Busch
SKU: 9780573623608
Rating: 3.9 (34 reviews)

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

120 mins1960sStrong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)Interior SetPeriod CostumesAmerican Mystery Comedy

What readers are saying

Readers have mixed feelings about the play, appreciating its campy nature and comedic elements, while some find it less engaging compared to other works by the author. The performances, particularly Busch's, are praised, but the variations in versions create some confusion. Overall, it is viewed as fun, albeit not universally appealing to all tastes.

Campy and silly funBusch's performance shinesMelodramatic charactersSome find it dullVariations in versions confuse

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