A couple of very generous friends give us the money to put it on in a very inexpensive way. She doesn't ask me what the play is going to be. "She gave me that opportunity, and every few years I return," he says. He credits artistic director Chrystal Field for remaining his champion, which is why he keeps premiering his material at her theatre. A lascivious riff on the famous Egyptian queen, the play runs through April 17 at Theater for the New City, where Busch has been staging his work since 1982. Or as he wryly says, he wanted to avoid "all that needless rumination and going over every choice I'd made in my life."Īnd so Cleopatra was born. However, after the success of some intensely personal projects – a cabaret act called That Girl/That Boy and an evening for Lincoln Center's American Songbook series titled Charles Busch: The Lady at the Mic – he was ready to lighten up again. I thought maybe I'd written enough plays, maybe close that chapter and just focus on other forms of career satisfaction." Just before the onset of rehearsals for Cleopatra, his latest creation, he says, "I was retired from the stage about a year ago, wasn't I? I was being very melodramatic. Fortunately for fans of the writer, performer, director, and drag legend, the impulse didn't stick. Last year, Charles Busch considered walking away from playwriting. Charles Busch brings her to life with drag, jokes, and old movies
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