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The 'Suthen'-drenched, critically acclaimed, award-winning production was first seen in New Orleans, Provincetown, Atlanta and a recent Palm Springs run. Conceived and guided by the inimitable talents of Varla Jean herself who is credited with the writing the stage adaptation, direction and headlining the production alongside co-star Ricky Graham, the result is a whacked out, brilliantly twisted and skewered yet right-on-the-mark drag parody of the silver screen cult film which featured the legendary Bette Davis and Olivia De Havilland. Varla Jean and her company of co-conspirators have created a high camp stage version of 'Charlotte', a film considered by many cinema historians as the quintessential example of the 'Southern Gothic Thriller'. In the process, Merman navigates the cast of Charlotte through to a truly 'hilarity ensues' laugh-riot of an evening at the theatre. The ensemble impressively manages to both revere and (affectionately) ridicule this celluloid art form. Davis and DeHavilland fans will be delighted with their gender bending theatrical reincarnations. Enthusiasts of the original film will find themselves in hysterics over the dead-on, inspired rendering of Velma Cruther (her devoted maid) as brilliantly delivered by Brooks Braselman in the supporting role originally portrayed by Agnes Moorehead (Endora of Bewitched fame). The additional supporting cast includes Mark Meehan, Yvette Hargis and Michael Sullivan.