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re: Tribute Artist: Explain the Busch thing to me

Posted by: enoch10 02:12 pm EDT 03/17/14
In reply to: Tribute Artist: Explain the Busch thing to me - NewtonUK 11:39 am EDT 03/17/14

he's part of a downtown tradition that goes back to ludlum. there is actually a direct connection. he was young and if i remember correctly it was toward the end but he was there. he played hecate, i think, in BLUEBEARD but i could have that wrong. he was definitely there, though.

he's one of the few genuinely downtown artists that made it uptown unscathed without the least bit of compromise. he's fantastically brave performer and a damn good writer . ALLERGIST'S WIFE is an anomaly in my book and pales in comparison the truly great works like VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM and KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY CASTANETS and PSYCHO BEACH PARTY.

i know of no other playwright from that period/scene that could have a camp work like DIE MOMMY DIE play uptown without the slightest concession.

i wasn't wild about TRIBUTE ARTIST but i saw it early in the run. i think the play itself is very good (if a little too long) but the performances were the problem for me. they felt underrehearsed and could well have been - unless it's closed i'm going to try to make it back to see if they got better. i suspect they did. i liked OLIVE AND THE BITTER HERBS and DIVINE SISTER is as good as anything he's ever done.

if you find him sophomoric and vulgar i suspect it's not just this play you won't like. he's not for every taste. i think he's fucking brilliant.


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re: Tribute Artist: Explain the Busch thing to me

Posted by: twocents 11:59 am EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: re: Tribute Artist: Explain the Busch thing to me - enoch10 02:12 pm EDT 03/17/14

DIVINE SISTER is as good as anything he's ever done. I just loved that play, and the Soho Playhouse was the perfect jewel box for it. Tales of the All Wife was pure laugh riot as well.
I haven't seen this one. Hey, they can't all be certifiable hits.


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re: Tribute Artist: Explain the Busch thing to me

Posted by: NewtonUK 09:51 am EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: re: Tribute Artist: Explain the Busch thing to me - enoch10 02:12 pm EDT 03/17/14

This play, to me, was just boring, and a story we have seen a million times )sans the drag queen - sorry - tribute artist).

What I was saying is that in the setting, uptown, it seemed out of place.

Bad script, bad direction, SLOW, bad acting - from actors whose work I know and like.

I am not judging all Busch from this - I was just asking if this was representative.


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The Divine Sister (Spoiler)

Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 04:04 pm EDT 03/17/14
In reply to: re: Tribute Artist: Explain the Busch thing to me - enoch10 02:12 pm EDT 03/17/14

The Divine Sister is the only Busch play I have seen. For me the show was hilarious although it relies a lot on outrageous, irreverent, low humor. Just thinking about the scene with the farting nun and Alison Fraser's facial expressions in reaction to the repeated occurrences makes me laugh out loud.


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