Die! Mommy! Die!
A camp parody of 1960s gothic-horror films crossed with Sophocles’ Electra. Busch developed the work from his plan to adapt Electra and play Clytemnestra, shifting the setting to 1967 and adding a horror element.
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A camp parody of 1960s gothic-horror films crossed with Sophocles’ Electra. Busch developed the work from his plan to adapt Electra and play Clytemnestra, shifting the setting to 1967 and adding a horror element.
Chicklet, a demure teenager who wants a surfboard, has a volatile alter ego named Ann. Their shifts drive a camp comedy that parodies beach movies and Hollywood ideas about sex, psychiatry and motherhood.
Taboo is a stage musical with a book by Mark Davies Markham (extensively rewritten for the Broadway production by Charles Busch), lyrics by Boy George, and music by George, John Themis, Richie Stevens, and Kevan Frost. Set in an abandoned London warehouse, the show tells the story of a group of people (partly based on real people and partly fictional), some of whom had been connected to the New Romantic club scene some years earlier, culminating with the opening of the now-legendary Taboo (1985–87) of the title, which was the creation of Leigh Bowery, at the end of Act I. Boy George is featured as one of the club's regulars, as he was known to have been in the 1980s, and the show also focuses on George's life prior to and after achieving fame.
Upper West Side matron Marjorie Taub, dissatisfied with her cultural pursuits and stung by her mother’s criticism and her husband’s devotion to homeless people, retreats into a midlife crisis. Her flamboyant childhood friend Lee unexpectedly settles into the Taub home, drawing Marjorie out of depression while affecting her marriage.
A satirical series of vignettes follows two immortal vampire women, locked in comic antagonism from the fall of Sodom through their masquerades as silent-film stars and a final truce in 1980s Las Vegas.
A camp parody of 1960s gothic-horror films crossed with Sophocles’ Electra. Busch developed the work from his plan to adapt Electra and play Clytemnestra, shifting the setting to 1967 and adding a horror element.
Chicklet, a demure teenager who wants a surfboard, has a volatile alter ego named Ann. Their shifts drive a camp comedy that parodies beach movies and Hollywood ideas about sex, psychiatry and motherhood.
Taboo is a stage musical with a book by Mark Davies Markham (extensively rewritten for the Broadway production by Charles Busch), lyrics by Boy George, and music by George, John Themis, Richie Stevens, and Kevan Frost. Set in an abandoned London warehouse, the show tells the story of a group of people (partly based on real people and partly fictional), some of whom had been connected to the New Romantic club scene some years earlier, culminating with the opening of the now-legendary Taboo (1985–87) of the title, which was the creation of Leigh Bowery, at the end of Act I. Boy George is featured as one of the club's regulars, as he was known to have been in the 1980s, and the show also focuses on George's life prior to and after achieving fame.
Upper West Side matron Marjorie Taub, dissatisfied with her cultural pursuits and stung by her mother’s criticism and her husband’s devotion to homeless people, retreats into a midlife crisis. Her flamboyant childhood friend Lee unexpectedly settles into the Taub home, drawing Marjorie out of depression while affecting her marriage.
A satirical series of vignettes follows two immortal vampire women, locked in comic antagonism from the fall of Sodom through their masquerades as silent-film stars and a final truce in 1980s Las Vegas.