Charles Busch: DIE, MOMMIE, DIE !
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1 min readApr 24, 2015
A comic melodrama that evokes the 1960’s “grande dame guignol” films that featured aging stars such as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Lana Turner.
Charles Busch is the author and star of such plays as The Divine Sister, The Lady in Question, Red Scare on Sunset, and Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, which ran five years and is one of the longest running plays in Off-Broadway history. His play The Tale of the Allergists Wife ran for 777 performances on Broadway and won Mr. Busch the Outer Circle Critics John Gassner Award and received a Tony nomination for Best Play.