Article: Mr. Charles, Currently of Palm Beach. (Ensemble Studio Theater, New York, New York)

What causes homosexuality?" asks Mr. Charles, settling himself on the, throne of his cable-access empire, sporting a, lemon-custard jacket, a paisley necktie for a belt, and a gleam in his eye born of more than one martini. "I do!"

Like a creature fashioned from the DNA of Paul Lynde in some fabulous laboratory, the title character of Paul Rudnick's hilarious new one-act Mr. Charles, Currently of Palm Beach embodies a gay archetype that Carl Jung overlooked: the Stereotype That Gives Us All a Bad Name. Mr. Charles apparently became so notorious for taking "nellie breaks" at politically incorrect times that he was asked to leave New York. As revenge, he has ...

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