Dangerous When Wet: Booze, Sex, and My Mother at The Kraine

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Sodomite Jamie Brickhouse (three-time Moth StorySLAM champion; voices on Beavis and Butthead) faces his three most defining relationships—booze, sex, and his Texas tornado of a mother Mama Jean—in this darkly comic tour de force. Based on his critically-acclaimed memoir that Interview called “as funny as an evening with Carrie Fisher,” and Paul Rudnick praised as “witty, blisteringly honest, and wickedly intoxicating,” it won a FRIGID Festival “Audience Choice Award,” and was lauded as "rib-tickling funny" (Hi! Drama), "stunning performer" (NY Theater Guide), and "thoroughly entertaining (Theater is Easy). With dazzling wit and unflinching honesty set against a multi-media backdrop of evocative photos, home movies, vintage postcards, and music haunted by Peggy Lee’s “Is That All There Is?”, Jamie tells the story of wrestling way too close to—and later loose from—booze, sex, and his bombastic, adorable Mama Jean. It’s a unique story about alcoholism, illness, death, AIDS, family heartbreak, and the relationship between a gay son and his mother. From the age of five stuck in Beaumont, Texas, all Jamie wanted was to be at a cocktail party with a martini in one hand and a cigarette in the other. All Mama Jean wanted was to keep him at that age, her Jamie doll forever. A Texan Elizabeth Taylor with the split personality of Auntie Mame and Mama Rose, she never had a thought she didn’t speak. Mama Jean cast a long shadow throughout Jamie’s life, no matter how deep in booze he swam or how far away from her amid New York’s drinking set he strayed. She unwittingly saves him as he discovers the meaning of love—Mama Jean’s kind of love.

c: Carrie Jordan

Jamie drunk-dials Miss Peggy Lee. c: Michael Hayes

Writer & performer Jamie Brickhouse. c: George Anttila

Jamie Brickhouse casts a "bewitching" spell as Endora. c: Michael Hayes

Jamie Brickhouse had no business being a child. c: Michael Hayes

Jamie's suicide attempt was straight out of "Valley of the Dolls." c: Michael Hayes

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