CHARLES BUSCH   (1954 - )


Charles Busch
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Plays by Charles Busch

CHARLES BUSCH
Ankles Aweigh
1st Produced:
East Haddam, Connecticut
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1987
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Parts:
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Notes: music and lyrics by Fain and Shapiro
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CHARLES BUSCH
Apres Moi, Le Deluge
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in Tough Acts To Follow, Alamo Square
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: written by Charles Busch and Kenneth Elliot
Synopsis: -
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CHARLES BUSCH
Before Our Mother's Eyes
1st Produced:
New York
1981
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
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CHARLES BUSCH
Charles Busch, Alone With A Cast Of Thousands
1st Produced:
U.S. Tours
1978
Company:
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1st Published:
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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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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CHARLES BUSCH
Die Mommie Die!
1st Produced:
New World Stages, NY
2007
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
comedy thriller
Thriller
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
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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
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CHARLES BUSCH
Gidget Goes Psychotic
1st Produced:
New York
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1986
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
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CHARLES BUSCH
House Of Flowers
1st Produced:
New York
1991
Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1991
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: libretto by Truman Capote
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CHARLES BUSCH
Lady In Question, The
1st Produced:
New York
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Four Plays", Fireside Theatre, New York
1990
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
5
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: spoof on trashy damsel in distress versus Nazis movies
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CHARLES BUSCH
Our Leading Lady
1st Produced:
2007
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
5
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
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
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CHARLES BUSCH
Out-Takes Of A B-Movie
1st Produced:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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CHARLES BUSCH
Pardon My Inquisition; Or, Kiss The Blood Off My Castanets
1st Produced:
New York
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Three Plays", Fireside Theatre, New York
1992
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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CHARLES BUSCH
Psycho Beach Party
1st Produced:
New York
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Four Plays", Fireside Theatre, New York
1990
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
5
Female
6
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: a perky teenager in Malibu Beach circa 1962 wants to learn to surf, unfortunately she suffers from multiple personality disorder
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CHARLES BUSCH
Queen Amarantha
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1998
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Genre:
Romantic Adventure
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: cross dressing classic about sexual ambiguity with a lonely Garboesque queen who dresses as a man
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CHARLES BUSCH
Red Scare On Sunset
1st Produced:
New York
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1991
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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CHARLES BUSCH
Shanghai Moon
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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CHARLES BUSCH
Sleeping Beauty Or Coma
1st Produced:
New York
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Four Plays", Fireside Theatre, New York
1990
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Parts:
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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CHARLES BUSCH
Taboo
1st Produced:
Plymouth Theater, New York
2003
Company:
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1st Published:
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Music:
Original Broadway recording: DRG (94773)
2004
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Genre:
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Musical
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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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.
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CHARLES BUSCH
Tale Of The Allergist's Wife, The
1st Produced:
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York
2000
Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
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
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CHARLES BUSCH
Theodora, She-Bitch Of Byzantium
1st Produced:
New York
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Three Plays", Fireside Theatre, New York
1992
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Parts:
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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CHARLES BUSCH
Times Square Angel
1st Produced:
New York
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1986
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Genre:
Christmas Fantsy
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Parts:
Male
7
Female
4
Parts Other:
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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
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CHARLES BUSCH
Vampire Lesbians Of Sodom
1st Produced:
New York
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1986
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Genre:
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Farce
Parts:
Male
6
Female
2
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes: -
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
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CHARLES BUSCH
You Should Be So Lucky
1st Produced:
Primary Stages, New York
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1995
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Genre:
Screwball Comedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: battle over ten million dollar inheritance leads to confrontation on Oprah Winfrey style show replete with the deceased's ghost
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