
The Lady in Question
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Charles Busch’s hilariously campy Off-Broadway comedy thriller 'The Lady in Question' arrived at the Orpheum Theatre in 1989, running for an accomplished multi-month commercial residency and capturing the hearts of avant-garde satire fans. Conceived as a deliciously wicked pastiche parody of mid-century Hollywood anti-Nazi cinematic suspense films, the breathless plot centers on Gertrude Garnet, a glamorous, self-absorbed international concert pianist who travels through the sweltering, high-stakes Bavarian Alps in 1940, collapsing into an espionage crisis when she risks her survival to rescue a resistance cell. Directed by Kenneth Elliott, the production starred Busch.

