Slap Happy

Posted by Sarah Rafferty, actor—

I must admit, I leap out of bed every day in anticipation of being slapped around by Charles Busch in "The Third Story." Seeing this photo in the New Yorker made my day. The cat is finally out of the bag. Charles Busch is a brute and a bruiser.  I'm afraid, though, that this fabulous photographer must have Photoshopped my flying prosthetic tooth out of the shot.  (And to think, neither Charles nor I could get an audition for "The Wrestler"!) 

'The Third Story' - Playwright's Note

Posted by Charles Busch, playwright-

Writing and storytelling have always been a major part of my life, even though my second-grade teacher, Mrs. Laspina, refused to tack any of my stories on the wall with the other kids’ work. My spelling was awful, my grammar hopeless and my penmanship illegible. Still, she was forced to admit, my stories were the most creative in the class.

Where did I get this love of narrative? At a very early age, I began watching old movies on television. My father loved romantic films, and together we shed a tear over Greer Garson and Ronald Colman in Random Harvest and Bette Davis in Now Voyager and Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette. Like most kids, I also loved fairy tales. The Disney animated Sleeping Beauty was an early obsession of mine. The stories that so perplexed Mrs. Laspina tended to combine the Brothers Grimm with Warner Brothers. There was usually a gentle Princess who was kidnapped away from her enchanted castle and ended up a hard-boiled dame working in a whorehouse...(more)

Expose Yourself to MCC Theater!

Posted by Ian Allen, Director of Marketing—

Hundreds of aspiring models showed up yesterday and exposed themselves to MCC Theater...  Well, sort of.  They were actually just looking to secure their place in Broadway history as the poster boys, girls and body parts of the upcoming ad campaign for reasons to be pretty. 

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