✨ A New Play Reading by Bruce Vilanch ✨ 🎭 CAPTAIN SHOW BIZ 🎭
Schedule
Fri Jan 09 2026 at 08:00 pm to 09:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Gray Box Theater | Wilton Manors, FL
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🌟 Join us—and Bruce himself—for a special reading of this brand-new play.Come for the jokes. Stay for the truth. Leave humming the theme from Sunset Boulevard. 💫
Synopsis:
Meet Harllan Starr—a flamboyant Hollywood super-producer who finally lands his lifelong dream job: producing the Academy Awards. There’s just one small detail… he’s telling the story from a hospital bed. In a coma. In a gown he mentally upgrades to a kaftan with gold accessories, obviously.
With his mind wide awake and his tongue razor-sharp, Harllan takes us backstage into the night his glittering Oscar fantasy collided head-on with modern Hollywood reality. Enter an unflappable houseboy, a star he personally manufactured, a neurotic writer, puffed-up Academy brass, panicked network execs, censors, activists, lawsuits, social-media meltdowns, and more egos than a Beverly Hills valet stand.
What begins as a dream of old-school glamour—mermaids, spectacle, and movie-star magic—spirals into a rhinestone-studded fiasco that raises the ultimate question: did Harllan ruin the show… or was the industry already beyond saving?
Fast, funny, biting, and unexpectedly touching, CAPTAIN SHOW BIZ is a love letter to lost glamour, a roast of Hollywood neuroses, and a meditation on legacy—all delivered by a man determined to get the last laugh,
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Where is it happening?
Gray Box Theater, 1444 NE 26th St, Wilton Manors, FL 33305-1322, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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