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Posted: 1/13/08 at 12:51am
Another star descends a staircase into the arms of the awaiting police when the Off-Broadway engagement of Charles Busch's DIE MOMMIE DIE! plays its final performance at New World Stages Jan. 13.
Performances of the Busch play began Oct. 10 and officially opened at New World Stages Oct. 21. Upon its Jan. 13 closing, DIE MOMMIE DIE! will have played 12 previews and 97 regular performances.
The limited engagement was previously scheduled to continue through Feb. 17; however, producers of the critically well-received work announced the production would shutter one month early.
Busch's "grande-dame Guignol," DIE MOMMIE DIE!, was first presented in Los Angeles. The playwright and star also headlined the film version of DIE MOMMIE DIE!, which was part of the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.
The 1960s-set DIE MOMMIE DIE! stars Busch as "Angela Arden, a fallen pop diva trapped in a hateful marriage to film producer Sol Sussman," production notes state. "Desperate to find happiness with her younger lover, Angela gruesomely murders her husband with the aid of a poisoned suppository, leaving her two children to avenge their father's death."
Busch is joined onstage by Bob Ari (The Constant Wife) as Sol Sussman, Chris Hoch (Spamalot) as Tony Parker, newcomer Ashley Morris as Edith, Kristine Nielsen (Our Leading Lady) as the Sussman's live-in domestic, Bootsie Carp, and "As the World Turns" Emmy nominee Van Hansis as Lance.
Busch's Die Mommie Die! Concludes Off-Broadway Run Jan. 13
Performances of the Busch play began Oct. 10 and officially opened at New World Stages Oct. 21. Upon its Jan. 13 closing, DIE MOMMIE DIE! will have played 12 previews and 97 regular performances.
The limited engagement was previously scheduled to continue through Feb. 17; however, producers of the critically well-received work announced the production would shutter one month early.
Busch's "grande-dame Guignol," DIE MOMMIE DIE!, was first presented in Los Angeles. The playwright and star also headlined the film version of DIE MOMMIE DIE!, which was part of the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.
The 1960s-set DIE MOMMIE DIE! stars Busch as "Angela Arden, a fallen pop diva trapped in a hateful marriage to film producer Sol Sussman," production notes state. "Desperate to find happiness with her younger lover, Angela gruesomely murders her husband with the aid of a poisoned suppository, leaving her two children to avenge their father's death."
Busch is joined onstage by Bob Ari (The Constant Wife) as Sol Sussman, Chris Hoch (Spamalot) as Tony Parker, newcomer Ashley Morris as Edith, Kristine Nielsen (Our Leading Lady) as the Sussman's live-in domestic, Bootsie Carp, and "As the World Turns" Emmy nominee Van Hansis as Lance.
Busch's Die Mommie Die! Concludes Off-Broadway Run Jan. 13
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Updated On: 1/13/08 at 12:51 AM
He's BRILLIANT.
