Tale
of the Allergist's Wife and Other Plays: The Tale of the
Allergist's Wife, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Psycho Beach Party,
The Lady in Question, Red Scare on Sunset by
Charles Busch
Charles Busch is
renowned for weaving popular culture, wicked camp humor, and
biting social satire into an unusual and uproarious theatrical
signature that has earned him the Outer Critics' John Gassner
Award for Playwrighting and a Drama Desk Award for Best Play
nomination. Of his latest play, The New York Times has written,
"Uproarious ... wall-to-wall laughs ... Mr. Busch has swum
straight into the mainstream and stays comfortably afloat
there." Busch is the author of such plays as Vampire
Lesbians of Sodom -- one of the longest-running plays in
Off-Broadway history -- and Psycho Beach Party, a cross
between Gidget and Spellbound. After a successful Off-Broadway run
at New York City's Manhattan Theater Club, Busch moves to Broadway
with The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, a hilarious comedy
about a self-absorbed Upper West Side doctor's wife whose life is
devoted to mornings at the Whitney, afternoons at the Museum of
Modern Art, and evenings at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Her
world is shaken and transformed when a childhood friend makes an
unexpected visit.
Psycho
Beach Party (2000)
From the
director of The Disco Years in the Boys
Life collection comes this marvelously campy tale of
shaking bikinis, gay muscled surfers, a wannabe surf babe with a
split personality, a mom with an agenda, and a few severed body
parts. Captain Monica Stark (Busch) is called to investigate a
recent rash of gory Malibu murders and she's got quite a mystery
to solve! Psycho Beach Party is a send-up of two Hollywood
genres: the beach movies of the fifties and the psychological
thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock whipped-up into a frothy madcap
romp. Heading the cast is writer/playwright and well known gender
illusionist-performer Charles Busch. The script is chock full of
witty one-liners and double entendre for the whole family! Robert
Lee King's skilled direction is fun, fresh, and sassy with
something for everyone. Two of these fifties surfer dudes are gay,
but it's before Stonewall and they haven't quite figured out what
to do! (We could show them a few tricks) It's a surfer movie with
plenty of shirtless hunks, it's a fifties comedy with dozens of
witty jokes with two meanings and it's even got campy gore with a
few extra hands making an appearance
