Audiobooks narrated by Charles Busch

Leading Lady: A Memoir of a Most Unusual Boy

The Tony Award-nominated writer of The Tale of the Allergist's Wife and the long-running hit Off-Broadway play Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, and a Sundance Festival award winner, Charles Busch has created a unique place in the entertainment world as a playwright, LGBT icon, drag actor, director, and cabaret performer, with his extraordinary gift for both connecting with and channeling the leading ladies of show business. Charles writes how ever since his mother's death when he was seven, he has sought out surrogate mothers in his life. In his teens, Charles moved to Manhattan to live with his Auntie Mame-like Aunt Lil, who encouraged Charles's talents and dreams, and eventually he discovered his gifts for writing plays and performing as a male actress. Busch also shares his colorful and sometimes outlandish interactions with film and theatrical luminaries, including Joan Rivers, Angela Lansbury, Rosie O'Donnell, Claudette Colbert, Valerie Harper, Kim Novak, and many others. Full of both humor and heart, Leading Lady is for fans of entertainment books as well as anyone who enjoys real-life stories of artists who break the mold, ditch the boundaries, and find their own unique way to sparkle.

Charles Busch (Author), Charles Busch (Narrator)

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Die Mommie Die

Angela Arden wants to be free of her suffocating marriage to film producer Sol Sussman. What better way than poison! Distraught by her father's death and convinced of her mother's guilt, Edith Sussman plots to get the truth out of Angela using any means necessary. Charles Busch stars in the role he originated in this camp sendup where tongues aren't the only thing dipped in acid. Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in May 2019. Directed by Carl Andress With original music and songs by Lewis Flinn Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg Charles Busch as Angela Arden Sussman Mark Capri as Tony Parker Willie Garson as Sol Sussman Ellis Greer as Edith Sussman Jeffery Self as Lance Sussman Ruth Williamson as Bootsie Associate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Senior Radio Producer, Ronn Lipkin. Foley Artist, Brian Wallace. Production Manager, Zack Myers. Editor, Julian Nicholson. "The Missing Girl" performed by Mary Birdsong, music and lyrics by Lewis Flinn. "The Salt and Pepper Polka" performed by Mary Birdsong, music by Lewis Flinn, lyrics by Dick Gallagher and Charles Busch.

Charles Busch (Author), Charles Busch, Ellis Greer, Jeffery Self, Mark Capri, Ruth Williamson, Willie Garson (Narrator)

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Three New American Plays: "Dancing Lessons" by Mark St. Germain, "Judith of Bethulia" by Charles Bus

Here are Three New American plays written by the brightest names working in the theater today. Dancing Lessons centers on Ever, a young man with Asperger's syndrome who seeks the instruction of a Broadway dancer to learn enough dancing to survive an awards dinner. The dancer, Senga, however, is recovering from an injury that may stop her dancing career permanently. As their relationship unfolds, they're both caught off-guard by the discoveries - both hilarious and heartwarming - that they make about each other and about themselves. Judith of Bethulia, written by and starring Broadway legend Charles Busch, is the world premiere of his new play which is an outrageous and bawdy celebration of the Hollywood Biblical Epic genre! Lepers, whores, eunuchs, centurions, evil generals, youthful poets, and a beautiful redheaded widow make Charles Busch's comedy a story worth praying for. The world premier recording of Jeffrey Sweet's Kunstler brings to life William Moses Kunstler who journeyed from comfortable suburban lawyer to America's most revered and reviled attorney for the civil rights and radical movements of the last half of the 20th Century.

Charles Busch, Jeffery Sweet, Mark St. Germain (Author), Charles Busch, Crystal Dickinson, Full Cast, Full Cast, Jeff McCarthy, John Cariani, Paige Davis (Narrator)

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Judith of Bethulia

Written by and Starring Broadway Legend Charles Busch, this is the world premiere of his new play which is an outrageous and bawdy celebration of the Hollywood Biblical Epic Genre! Lepers, whores, eunuchs, centurions, evil generals, youthful poets and a beautiful redheaded widow make Charles Busch’s comedy a story worth praying for. ***Please contact Member Services for additional documents***

Charles Busch (Author), A Full Cast, Charles Busch (Narrator)

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The Divine Sister

A crumbling convent school is on the verge of insolvency, when a young postulant begins to display strange heavenly powers. And when a dashing film executive arrives to buy the rights to her story, the Reverend Mother refuses to put profits over prayer. Playwright Charles Busch made his name with genre-skewering hits like Psycho Beach Party, Die Mommie Die, and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, which L.A. Theatre Works recorded in 2007. This time around, we present Busch’s high-voltage spoof of religious melodramas, starring three of the principal players from its original 2010 Off-Broadway run. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Emily Bergl as Agnes Charles Busch as Mother Superior Maxwell Caulfield as Jeremy/Brother Venerius Alison Fraser as Sister Walburga/Mrs. MacDuffie Julie Halston as Sister Acacius Juliet Mills Mrs. Levinson/Timothy Directed by Carl Andress. Recorded by L.A. Theatre Works before a live audience.

Charles Busch (Author), Charles Busch, Emily Bergl, Maxwell Caulfield (Narrator)

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The Importance of Being Earnest

This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag. Jack and Algernon are best friends, both wooing ladies who think their names are Ernest, "that name which inspires absolute confidence." Wilde's effervescent wit, scathing social satire, and high farce make this one of the most cherished plays in the English language. Includes an interview with director Michael Hackett, Professor of Theater in the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: James Marsters as Jack Charles Busch as Lady Bracknell Emily Bergl as Cecily Neil Dickson as Lane and Merriman Jill Gascoine as Miss Prism Christopher Neame as Chasuble Matthew Wolf as Algernon Sarah Zimmerman as Gwendolen Directed by Michael Hackett. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

Oscar Wilde (Author), Charles Busch, James Marsters (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Charles Busch