Psycho Beach Party

Written By Charles Busch
Directed By Billy Ray Brewton

August 7-23, 2008
Thursdays-Saturdays at 8pm
Midnight Shows on the 9th and 16th

Performed at Playhouse Costume Cooperative

Chicklet Forrest, a teenage tomboy, desperately wants to be part of the surf crowd on Malibu Beach in 1962. One thing getting in her way is her unfortunate tendency towards split personalities. Among them is a black check out girl, an elderly radio talk show hostess, a male model named Steve and the accounting firm of Edelman and Edelman. Her most dangerous alter ego is a sexually voracious vixen named Ann Bowman who has nothing less than world domination on her mind. “Gidget”, Frankie and Annette beach party epics, and Hitchcock psychological suspense thrillers like “Marnie” are given a shotgun marriag

Featuring: Amanda Maddox, Reagan Dickey, J.J. Marrs, Daniel C. Jackson, Chuck Duck, Susan Cook, Vallerie Paulin, Wesley Glass, Jack Williamson, Alex Perkins

AL.COM REVIEW
“An over-the-top comedy as entertaining (and bizarre) as it sounds.”
— Mary Colurso

Charles Busch is the author and star of such plays as The Divine Sister, The Lady in Question, Red Scare on Sunset, The Confession of Lily Dare and Vampire Lesbians of Sodom; one of the longest-running plays in the history of off-Broadway. His play The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife received a Tony nomination for Best Play and is the longest-running Broadway comedy of the past 25 years. He wrote and starred in the film versions of his plays Psycho Beach Party and Die Mommie Die!, the latter of which won him the Best Performance Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Mr. Busch has been honored with a special Drama Desk Award for career achievement as both performer and playwright and received the Flora Roberts Award for Sustained Achievement in the theater by the Dramatist’s Guild. He is the subject of the documentary film The Lady in Question is Charles Busch.