We Three Queens (2009)

Written, Directed & Lyrics By Billy Ray Brewton
Music & Lyrics By Flannery Whaley & Christoph Hooks

July 9-25, 2009
Thursday-Saturday Nights at 8pm

Performed at Birmingham AIDS Outreach

In the 1980’s, Cosmos was the biggest pop group in the world. Javelin, Comet, and Goldstar were household names. After sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll tore them apart, each found a new purpose in life. For Javelin, it was Jesus and family. For Comet, it was K-Mart and her mother. For Goldstar, it was her two minimally-talented sisters. Years later, when each is at rock bottom, the idea of a reunion tour becomes a reality, forcing each of them to face their demons, embrace the music within, and get over their petty grievances for the good of music itself.

Assistant Directed By Leslie Plaia

Featuring: Chuck Duck, Saxon Murrell, Scott Nesmith, Dianne Daniels, Penny Thomas, Daniel C. Jackson, Sally Montgomery, Bert R. Payne, and Micah Floyd

“Billy Ray Brewton does not make it easy to review live theatre.”
— Alec Harvey

Billy Ray Brewton is an award-winning playwright and filmmaker. His plays include: A Beast/A Burden (Hollywood Fringe Festival; Off-Broadway So-Ho Playhouse); The Xmascist, Must Come Down, After School Special, and The 13th Friday: Ready, Set, Die! Musicals include: Country Roses: The Musical, Dragula: The Musical, Skanks in a One Horse Town, and We Three Queens. He has written stage adaptations of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, and John Dryden’s Marriage-a-la-Mode. Most recently he directed Red Light Winter for Los Angeles’s Catharsis Theatre Collective and Son-of-a-Bitch, an award-winner at the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival. As a filmmaker, he wrote and directed the horror film, Show Yourself (available on Tubi) and produced the 2025 documentary, Coroner to the Stars. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, and is the co-founder of Birmingham’s Theatre Downtown.