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The Tale of the Allergist's Wife is a play by Charles Busch. In his first play written for a mainstream audience, Busch explores the Upper West Side milieu of aspiring intellectual and middle-aged upper class matron Marjorie Taub, who lives comfortably with her doctor husband Ira in an expensively furnished condo near Zabar's and spends her days and evenings pursuing culture at various museums and the theatre .
- Charles Busch
- 1999
Introduced by playwright Charles Busch, Linda Lavin, Tony Roberts, and Michele Lee perform an excerpt from The Tale of the Allergist's Wife at the 2001 Tony ...
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- Matt Hagmeier Curtis
Aug 14, 2020 · After a successful Off-Broadway run at New York City's Manhattan Theater Club, Busch moves to Broadway with The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, a hilarious comedy about a self-absorbed Upper West Side doctor's wife whose life is devoted to mornings at the Whitney, afternoons at the Museum of Modern Art, and evenings at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife is a play by Charles Busch. In his first play written for a mainstream audience, Busch explores the Upper West Side milieu of aspiring intellectual and middle-aged upper class matron Marjorie Taub, who lives comfortably with her doctor husband Ira in an expensively furnished condo near Zabar's and spends her ...
Summary. Marjorie Taub, a middle-aged Upper West Side Doctor’s wife, is devoted to mornings at the Whitney, afternoons at MOMA and evenings at BAM. Plunged into a mid-life crisis of Medea-like proportions, she’s shaken out of her lethargy by the reappearance of a fascinating and somewhat mysterious childhood friend.
On November 19, 2018 the Actors Fund presented a one night only stage reading of The Tale of The Allergist’s Wife starring Charles Busch in the title role originally played by Linda Lavin, and the entire original all-star Broadway cast including Michele Lee, Tony Roberts, Anil Kumar and Linda Lavin as well as original director Lynne Meadow ...
Oct 30, 2023 · Laugh-out-loud funny, “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife” from an award-winning script by Robert Busch, is an entertaining domestic comedy in the vein of Neil Simon, very Jewish New York humor. MadKap Productions, which has moved to the Skokie Theatre with this show, has given it a top-notch treatment, with an elegant, very finished set—an expensively furnished co-op apartment on Riverside Drive in Manhattan.
