Entertainment
A Beach Party in October
By Carriage House Arts Center
Sep 19, 2008 - 10:20 AM

Psycho Beach cast

TCC and Carriage House Arts Center are teaming up for the sixth time to present Charles Busch’s outrageous comedy “Psycho Beach Party” in October. How did it happen that a play that takes place on the beach in Malibu got scheduled for a time when the air is nippy and leaves are falling?

Producer Frank Gaffney explains, “It has become our tradition to team with TCC to do a reading in June and a full production in October every year. And we had a huge success with the outrageous comedy ‘Sordid Lives’ last October, so we wanted to keep this year’s play in that same sort of vein… and that’s how ‘Psycho’ ended up in October.”

Director Anthony Carregal concurs, “We couldn’t resist! A LIVE psycho beach party with topless boys and sexy vixen women… a hamburger shack… surfing… and Joan Crawford! What more could you ask for?”

At the wine and cheese reception before each show, Frankie and Annette – uh, we mean DeeDee and Nicky (Kristin Kielczewski and Larry Diomede) – welcome the guests and get you into the 60’s surfing beach party feel, Daddy-O!

Imagine "Gidget" crossed with "The Three Faces of Eve," with a dash of "Mommie Dearest" thrown in… Chicklet (Sarah Smegal), a perky teenager in Malibu Beach circa 1963, wants to learn to surf and join a group of beach bums (Kevin Thompson, Rob Sherwood, Joe Guttadauro) led by the great Kanaka (Michael Limone). Complications arise when a movie star (Mary Elizabeth White) flees the set of her latest rotten horror movie to hide among the surfers... and our little Chicklet is having problems of her own: what with a mother (Ann Alford) who's seen too many Joan Crawford movies, two girlfriends who don’t see eye-to-eye (Caity Brown & Kristen Habacht) and someone who is attacking the gang at the beach and wants to take over the world!

The show will be performed Fridays & Saturdays October 3, 4, 10, 11 at 8pm; twilight matinee Sunday, October 5 at 4pm. Tickets are $20 Friday & Saturdays (and includes wine and cheese before the show) and $12 for the Sunday show.

Location: The Carriage House Arts Center, Cranbury Park, 390 Grumman Avenue, (at the intersection of Kensett and Grumann Avenues), in Norwalk, CT. For more information, http://carriagehouseartscenter.org/

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