In association with nyYOURep

Presents

‘VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM’

&

‘SLEEPING BEAUTY OR COMA’

By Charles Busch

Directed by Ken Hailey

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

THE SECRET THEATRE, 4402 23^RD ST, LIC, NYC 11101

JUNE 18 – 21 @ 8pm + special late nite show 10pm June 21^st

Matinee @ 3pm June 22^nd

PRIDE WEEK

JUNE 25 – 28 @ 8PM + FINAL SHOW @ 7PM JUNE 29^TH

TICKETS $20

Advance Tickets/Reservations: 718 392 0304

Online sales: www.secrettheatre.com & www.theatermania.com

VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM

Charles Busch's camp classic is one of the longest running plays in Off-Broadway history, “Vampire Lesbians of Sodom” tells the saga of two fatally seductive vampiresses whose paths first collide in ancient Sodom. Their bitter rivalry as bloodsuckers but more importantly, as actresses, endures for two thousand years with stops along the way in 1920’s silent movie Hollywood and contemporary Las Vegas.

The Secret Theatre delighted to bring back his glorious tale of a titanic struggle between two competing Lesbian Vampire's as they tussle for supremacy through the ages. Described by The New York Times as having "costumes flashier than pinball machines, outrageous lines, awful puns, sinister innocence, harmless depravity”. It was first performed at the Limbo Lounge in Manhattan's East Village in 1984 and moved Off Broadway in June 1985 to the Provincetown Playhouse where it ran for five years.

From Ancient Egypt to the Golden Age of Hollywood our undead 'ladies' are attended by beautiful boys in Antiquarian Gold Thongs and later rather fetchingly in leg warmers channeling the aerobic spirit of Jane Fonda.

SLEEPING BEAUTY OR COMA

The first half of the show features Charles Busch's Sleeping Beauty or Coma

The fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty set in the swinging mod London of the1960's. Sebastian Loré, a flamboyant megalomaniacal fashion designer," discovers" a young mod temp receptionist, Enid Wetwhistle, and tries to turn her into a high fashion model. She rebels and finds refuge with a wacky young fairy godmother of a struggling fashion designer, Fauna Alexander, and her photographer boyfriend, Ian. The three become huge stars in the new mod era, with Enid now transformed as "Rose", and proclaimed as "the face of the sixties". Sebastian plots his revenge on the trio and slips some bad LSD into Rose's drink. She lapses into a twenty-year coma. In the eighties, a handsome nutritionist named Craig Prince revives her and they all live happily ever after.

Cast

SLEEPING BEAUTY OR COMA

The action takes place in and around London in the1960’s.

Miss Thicke Alexander Santiago-Jirau

Enid Wetwhistle Erin Frances Ronder

Sebastian Loré Adam Cooley

Fauna Alexander – Michael Miller

Ian McKenzie - Tim McDonough

Anthea Arlo - Elizabeth Claire Taylor

Barry Posner, Craig Prince - Nathaniel Kressen

VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM

Scene 1: Sodom, in days of old. The entrance to a forbidding cave.

Scene 2: Hollywood, 1920’s, La Condesa’s mansion.

Scene 3: Las Vegas 1980s. A rehearsal hall.

La Condesa, a silent screen vamp - Elizabeth Claire Taylor

Madeleiné Astarté, a stage actress - Michael Miller

Ali, a guard. – Adam Cooley

Hujar, a guard - Nathaniel Kressen

A virgin sacrifice - Michael Miller

The Succubus, a monster - Elizabeth Claire Taylor

Danny, a chorus boy - Alexander Santiago-Jirau

King Carlisle, a silent movie idol - Tim McDonough

Oatsie Carewe, a gossip columnist - Nathaniel Kressen

Tracy, an aspiring singer - Erin Frances Ronder

Etienne, a butler - Alexander Santiago-Jirau

Renee Vain, a starlet - Erin Frances Ronder

Zack, a chorus boy - Nathaniel Kressen

P.J. a chorus boy - Adam Cooley