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PSYCHO BEACH PARTY – March 8 – 17, 2024

By Charles Busch

Directed by Tom Amen

March 8 - 17, 2024

Auditions: Tuesday November 28 & Wednesday November 29, 2023

By all appearances, Chicklet is a perky, spunky teenaged girl who wants nothing more out of life than to be accepted as an equal by the Malibu surf crowd of 1962. But Chicklet hides a dark secret – she suffers from a rare multiple personality disorder that triggers her to transform into her various other selves at the mere mention of the color red! From a radio talk-show therapist, to a preening male model, to an angry supermarket checkout girl, to a deviant dominatrix hellbent on conquering the world, Chicklet Forrest is a force to be reckoned with!

A manic mix of 1950’s Hitchcockian thriller, cheesy 1960’s beach movie, and Mommie Dearest, Psycho Beach Party is fiendishly funny fun! Catch the wild wacky wave of laughter!

NOTE: This production contains adult language and situations and is intended for mature audiences.

The Tribune review...

It’s a goofy, weird beach “Party”...

 

The Show Report review...

A manic mix of 1950’s Hitchcockian thrillers and cheesy 1960’s beach movies, “Psycho Beach Party” is fiendishly funny fun!...

“With deftly funny turns, the cast’s timing sparkles throughout. The performances, the hipster-inflected dialogue and period non sequiturs, and the real-gone surf music is all scrupulously modeled from the real thing, with a touch of distancing camp attitude added for spice. It’s cheeky, good fun is what makes "Psycho Beach Party" an enjoyable, weightless, romp.”
- Chris Daniels THE SHOW REPORT