Charles Busch has a loyal following, one that has followed him from the East Village to Broadway and now to the West Village in his latest hit, 'The Confession of Lily Dare.'
Busch says he got his inspiration from Ludlam. Long before chat rooms, Ludlam's plays were the talk of theater circles. He raised the eyebrows of people whose eyebrows usually held firm."I am from New York City, and I saw Charles Ludlam. And he made such an impression on me. We seemed to share the same frame of reference, and he was such a wonderful example of someone steering their own course. And I saw through his example that one could have a career creating roles for yourself.
This is a complex issue for Busch."It's hard nowadays. There is always discussions in the chat rooms about who should play. That seems to be a great concern for so many people. Over the past 30 years, women have not been encouraged to be flamboyant and certainly the tradition of the elegant madcap has kind of vanished."The Confession of Lily DareThe play came from the urge to age in a role."There is a fantasy element.
"It is a joy to work with people like Jennifer Van Dyck. I've done—God time does by so quickly: I've known her 11 years, and we've done 11 productions of I think 5 plays." "I was curious to see if in this cynical modern age it was possible to have a lot of fun with a pre-code tearjerker film," he says."Could an audience today be moved by it? And that's the thing I am very proud of. It seems like people really are oddly moved at the end of the play."We've all had mothers. We've all been children and have complex relationships. So even within genre parody you can have moments of genuine feelings.
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