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Vampire Lesbians of Sodom with Sleeping Beauty or Coma

A Charles Busch Double Bill

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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 1920s silent movie Hollywood and contemporary Las Vegas. "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom" was first performed at the Limbo Lounge in New York City's East Village in 1984. It became so popular it was moved to Off-Broadway in the June of 1985 where it ran five years at the Provincetown Playhouse in the West Village.

"Sleeping Beauty or Coma" is based on the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty and is set in the swinging mod London of the 1960's where a young office temp Enid Wetwhistle is discovered by megalomaniacal fashion designer Sebastian Lore and remade into the new face of the 60s. Befriended by a fairy godmother, the wacky Fauna Alexander and her photographer boyfriend Ian, the three become huge stars in the new mod era, with Enid now transformed as "Rose". Proclaimed as "the face of the sixties", she turns her back on Sebastian Lore who then plots his revenge on the trio by sending Enid into a fifteen year drug induced coma.

"Nothing escapes the demolition by laughter The audience laughs at the first line and goes right on laughing at every line to the end, and even at some of the silences. Thats no mean achievement."
Bruckner, New York Times