Some of My Best Friends Are Men: A Cabaret Musical

Leah Callahan “Boston’s underground cabaret queen” (Boston Phoenix), Jonathan Vincent, and the Illegitimate Theatre Company are resuscitating camp classic Myra Breckinridge this October, with their musical adaptation entitled: Some of My Best Friends Are Men. The production will cull from Michael Sarne’s five-million-dollar Hollywood flop and the book by Gore Vidal on which it was based. Taking cues from the surreal strangeness of the 1970 film, characters will include Letitia Van Allen (Sue Mikes) as a horny talent scout; Mary Ann Pringle (Naomi Bennett), a closeted young lesbian; the megalomaniacal Myra Breckinridge (Leah Callahan) ; ex-coboy star Buck Loner (Miss Mary Mac); and the gullible, buff Rusty Godowski (Kenneth Gottlieb). The story begins soon after the gay actor Myron Breckinridge has a sex-change operation. As Myra-hiding from creditors and not making much progress in her acting career, she moves from Hollywood to Boston to con her uncle Buck Loner out of half a
million dollars and symbolically destroy the American male.