Article: From 'Vampire Lesbians' To 'Yiddishe Jiminy Cricket'

Phyllis Goldman
Forward
01-27-1995
From `Vampire Lesbians' To `Yiddishe Jiminy Cricket'.

`In the past, I haven't been too successful in male roles," Charles Busch, best known for his long-running play "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom," confessed to the Forward recently. "Nor had I dealt with my Jewish heritage." All that has changed with Mr. Busch's new play, "You Should Be So Lucky," currently filling the house at the West Side Theatre/Upstairs, located on West 43rd Street off Ninth Avenue.

Mr. Busch has packed away the wigs, opulent dresses and venomous heroine roles that made his name in the theater and put on a tie and suit. And though he plays a shy, reclusive, non-Jewish gay man who paints ...

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