CHARLES BUSCH (1954 - )
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Charles Busch
Ankles Aweigh |
| 1st Produced: | East Haddam, Connecticut | 1987 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1987 | ||
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Notes: music and lyrics by Fain and Shapiro | ||||
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Apres Moi, Le Deluge |
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| 1st Published: | in Tough Acts To Follow, Alamo Square | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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Notes: written by Charles Busch and Kenneth Elliot | ||||
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Before Our Mother's Eyes |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1981 | ||
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Charles Busch, Alone With A Cast Of Thousands |
| 1st Produced: | U.S. Tours | 1978 | ||
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Notes: includes Hollywood Confidential, 1978, A Theatrical Party, 1980, After You've Gone, 1982, Phantom Lovers, 1983. | ||||
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Die Mommie Die! |
| 1st Produced: | New World Stages, NY | 2007 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | comedy thriller | Thriller | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Notes: music by Lewis Flinn | ||||
Synopsis: A comedy-thriller steeped in the glamour of 1960s Hollywood, Die Mommie Die! stars playwright Charles Busch as Angela Arden, a fallen pop diva trapped in a hateful marriage to film producer Sol Sussman. Desperate to find happiness with her younger lover, an out-of-work TV actor named Tony Parker, Angela gruesomely murders her husband with the aid of a poisoned suppository. In a plot that reflects Greek tragedy as well as Hollywood kitsch, Angelas manipulative daughter, Edith, convinces her 'emotionally disturbed' brother, Lance, that together they must avenge their fathers deathby killing their mother! - press release | ||||
Gidget Goes Psychotic |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1986 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1986 | ||
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House Of Flowers |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1991 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1991 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: libretto by Truman Capote | ||||
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Lady In Question, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1989 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Four Plays", Fireside Theatre, New York | 1990 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: spoof on trashy damsel in distress versus Nazis movies | ||||
Our Leading Lady |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 |
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Synopsis: It's about Laura Keene, the 19th century American stage actress, as she prepares to perform at Ford's Theatre on the fateful night when Abraham Lincoln is in the audience. nytheatre.com | ||||
Out-Takes Of A B-Movie |
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Pardon My Inquisition; Or, Kiss The Blood Off My Castanets |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1986 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Three Plays", Fireside Theatre, New York | 1992 | ||
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Psycho Beach Party |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Four Plays", Fireside Theatre, New York | 1990 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 6 |
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Synopsis: a perky teenager in Malibu Beach circa 1962 wants to learn to surf, unfortunately she suffers from multiple personality disorder | ||||
Queen Amarantha |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | Romantic Adventure | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: cross dressing classic about sexual ambiguity with a lonely Garboesque queen who dresses as a man | ||||
Red Scare On Sunset |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1991 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1991 | ||
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Shanghai Moon |
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Sleeping Beauty Or Coma |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1984 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Four Plays", Fireside Theatre, New York | 1990 | ||
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Taboo |
| 1st Produced: | Plymouth Theater, New York | 2003 | ||
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Original Broadway recording: DRG (94773) | 2004 | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Music by Boy George; Lyrics by Boy George; Co-Composer: Kevan Frost; Music Co-Writer: John Themis and Richie Stevens; Book by Charles Busch; Adapted from the original book by Mark Davies. Written with Mark Davies (Busch rewrote for an American audience) | ||||
Synopsis: Setting: An abandoned London warehouse, which formerly was the location of the hottest club of the '80s, Taboo, and a great variety of places in and about London. | ||||
Tale Of The Allergist's Wife, The |
| 1st Produced: | Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York | 2000 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: Lee Green gave Diana the idea of doing something about landmines & Andy Warhol saw her pile of soup cans and she seduces the allergist's wife | ||||
Theodora, She-Bitch Of Byzantium |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1984 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Three Plays", Fireside Theatre, New York | 1992 | ||
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Times Square Angel |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1984 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1986 | ||
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| Genre: | Christmas Fantsy | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 |
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Notes: From An Idea by Charles Busch and Andy Halliday | ||||
Synopsis: a pantomime dame lifts herself out of the slums and into a career as a night-club singer, finally becoming so decadent that only a guardian angel can save her from herself | ||||
Vampire Lesbians Of Sodom |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1984 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1986 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Farce | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
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Synopsis: Rocky Horror style about vamps, has nothing to do with lesbians and moves from ancient Sodom to the Hollywood of the twenties and ends up in present day Las Vegas | ||||
You Should Be So Lucky |
| 1st Produced: | Primary Stages, New York | 1994 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1995 | ||
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| Genre: | Screwball Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: battle over ten million dollar inheritance leads to confrontation on Oprah Winfrey style show replete with the deceased's ghost | ||||