Goodbye Charlie (1959, Lauren Bacall) - repro

George Axelrod’s zany farcical comedy 'Goodbye Charlie' turned the stage of the Lyceum Theatre into a fast-paced arena of screwball satire in 1959, running for an accomplished 109 performances. The breathless plot centers on Charlie Sorrel, a smooth-talking, unprincipled Hollywood screenwriter who is shot dead by a jealous husband, collapsing into a bizarre metaphysical crisis when he is reincarnated inside the physical body of a beautiful woman, forced to deploy an intricate web of domestic deceptions to fleece his old cohorts. Directed by Axelrod himself, the historic original production starred silver-screen icon Lauren Bacall alongside Sydney Chaplin.