My Next Husband Will Be a Beauty

My Next Husband Will Be a Beauty

My Next Husband Will Be a Beauty

My Next Husband Will Be a Beauty

Overview

Based on Kitty Genovese's murder, witnessed by thirty neighbors unwilling to aid her. Set in the Plaza Hotel's Palm Court, Virginia comes to stay with her aunt and uncle. A strange man's been trailing her from Chicago. Her relatives are too busy talking to pay much attention to Virginia and a strange man rapes and murders her in front of them. He leaves and the relatives finally see what's happened. They try to exit quietly until the uncle notices the audience. Guilt dawns on them, but the aunt implies the audience is just as guilty as they, too, had only watched.

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Cautions

  • Caution Intense Adult Intense Adult Themes

Details

  • Genre: Experimental

Authors

Tom Eyen

Tom Eyen (1940-1991) was an American playwright, lyricist, television writer and director. He received a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Dreamgirls in 1981.

Eyen is best known for works at opposite ends of the theatrical spectrum. Mainstream theatergoers became acqua ...

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