Mommie Queerest

         
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JOAN CRAWFORD. Oscar winner. Clean freak. Child Protective Services worst nightmare.

By now you know the story of Christina Crawford’s tell-all about her tumultuous relationship with her famous mother. First the book, then the 1981 movie that became an instant cult  classic. Yes, it's been 30 years since Faye Dunaway donned those famous arched eyebrows and big shoulder pads making us all go back in the closet and question our choice of clothes hanger.

For the last seven years Jamie Morris' twisted version, MOMMIE QUEEREST, has had sold-out audiences across the country re-thinking the oft-quoted tale with the simple premise, "What if Joan had really been a man all those years?"

Told by an all-male cast of four, MOMMIE QUEEREST entertains the notion that Crawford was actually a man in drag, a fact she hid from her fans, her children, and the world. Even when Christina finds out, takes revenge, and writes “Daddy Dearest” it’s Joan who still has the last laugh.


This is the premise of the play that features four actors playing 25 characters in 32 fast-paced scenes, all in the span of just 75 minutes. The Provincetown Banner says, "Go see it, or suffer boredom at home with your own wire hangers!"

MOMMIE QUEEREST had its world premiere in Provincetown in 2003 and has since played in over two dozen cities including two sold-out runs both in NY and in LA where the show garnered 4 LA Weekly Theater Awards, winning for Best Comedy Direction for Christopher Kenney.

 

4 ACTORS
25 CHARACTERS
32 SCENES
37 COSTUME CHANGES
75 MINUTES...
ONE ROYAL BITCH!

You'll Laugh... You'll Cry... You'll never use...

A WIRE HANGER AGAIN!