Beloved drag artiste CharlesBusch returns to the New York stage in his latest play, 'The Confession of Lily Dare,' a campy riff on female-driven 1930s Hollywood weepies. Read THR's review:
, the actor-writer here delivers an amusingly loving send-up of the sort of melodramatic, pre-Code weepies that used to star the likes of Ruth Chatterton, Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis.
Thus begins a decades-spanning storyline that finds Lily falling in love with the bordello's impoverished bookkeeper and raising their infant daughter alone after he's killed in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. She then falls under the sway of handsome, crooked rake Blackie Lambert , who self-knowingly introduces himself as "a shady character from a once prominent family who adds a veneer of class to whatever room he's in.
The playwright and star, now 65, seems less interested these days in shock value. This effort, although it has its share of outrageous lines , feels more decorous than many of his previous works. At times, it's played so straight you almost forget you're watching a parody and become emotionally caught up in the plight of its tragic heroine.
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