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January 14-March 15, 2009

A mother and son screenwriting team hunker down in Omaha after fleeing Commie-obsessed 1940’s Hollywood. A romantically-inclined but socially-inept princess makes a deal with an ancient witch. And tommy guns meet test tubes as a way-too-well-dressed first lady of the mob forms a desperate alliance with a cloning scientist whose experiments have had, um, less-than-consistent results. Gangster flicks, fairy tales, and B-movie sci-fi collide in this epic comic fable from the imagination of Charles Busch.

Kathleen Turner, star of Peggy Sue Got Married, Romancing the Stone, and Serial Mom, appears on the New York stage for the first time since her Tony-nominated turn in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Charles Busch, a seminal figure of the downtown theater scene since his early years as a drag superstar in Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and Red Scare on Sunset, has recently achieved widespread acclaim as writer of the Tony-nominated hit The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife and star of the film Die, Mommie, Die!.