YOU SHOULD BE SO LUCKY By Charles Busch; directed by Kenneth Elliott; sets by B . T . Whitehill; lighting by Michael Lincoln; costumes by Suzy Benzinger; sound by Aural Fixation; title song music and lyrics, Dick Gallagher; production stage manager, John Frederick Sullivan.
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Charles Busch's play " You Should Be So Lucky, " the season's first show to move up from a nonprofit stage to a commercial run, is being booted from the Westside Theater on Sunday to make room for David Mamet's " Cryptogram ."
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Returning to the contributions of Black English, we have this letter from David H . Mortimer of the American Assembly at Columbia University : " A peculiar word has thrust itself at me in three business meetings, in Sam Shepard's ` Simpatico'and Charles Busch's ` You Should Be So Lucky .'The word is
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But Busch has come to the Syms near Wall Street with Suzy Benzinger, the costume designer for his new play, " You Should Be So Lucky, " because he has now written himself the unlikely role of a man . ( The show's tag line is " This time around, luck is not a lady ."
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He also wrote the title song for the Charles Busch play " You Should Be So Lucky " . and wrote the music for two musicals for the theatre company TheatreWorks / USA : " Gold Rush ! " ( with David Armstrong and Mark Waldrop ) and " A Christmas Carol " ( with David Armstrong and Mark Waldrop ).
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He appeared in a valiant but labored production of Genet's " Maids " in 1993, daringly conquered the role of a man in his charming 1994 comedy " You Should Be So Lucky " and analyzed his lust for Adrian-style gowns and high heels in his drolly confessional solo show of last season, " Flipping My Wig ."
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Christopher is clearly an unfinished soul who hasn't yet found his part in life, and, as he observes forlornly,'I'm not unique : there are thousands of us living in peculiar circumstances all over the Village .'. . .'You Should Be So Lucky'. . . is a very funny, exceptionally generous-spirited work that's all about dotting the " i " in personality ."
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He wrote a novel ( " Whores of Lost Atlantis " ), a nightclub act, a musical revue, a play in which he took a male role ( " I didn't enjoy that too much, " he says now about the 1995 " You Should Be So Lucky " ), and the book for the 1997 Rusty Magee musical " The Green Heart, " produced by the Manhattan Theater Club.
