Free Reading of TALL SKINNY CRUEL CRUEL BOYS at Abingdon Theatre

Brandy is the city's most sought-after birthday party clown, and she's never let her drinking, gambling, and bed-hopping interfere with her work-until now. Her teenage boyfriend won't stop calling, her clients are getting needy...and the monster under her bed is growing restless. Weaving fantasy and clowning with brutal reality, Tall Skinny Cruel Cruel Boys asks...what is the price of growing up?
Praise for playwright Caroline V. McGraw from The New York Times:

"Caroline V. McGraw's wry and artful Ultimate Beauty Bible [is] a play for anybody who has ever believed that the right lipstick, the right shoes, the right lover might meaningfully alter the course of one's existence. Which is a lot of us."

Featuring Owen Campbell (Indian Summer, Playwrights Horizons), Cleo Gray (These Seven Sicknesses, The Flea), Elise Kibler (The Heidi Chronicles, Broadway), Nate Miller (Ripcord, Manhattan Theatre Club), Zoe Winters (Small Mouth Sounds, Ars Nova) and more.

Admission is free but space is limited

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With an eye toward production-ready scripts, The Ghostlight Reading Series provides an opportunity for writers, directors and collaborators to share the work with an audience before transitioning into production. By focusing on scripts that that reflect our social, political, historical and cultural diversity, Abingdon aims to become a destination for artists grappling with big questions. A ghost light is defined as "an electric light that is left energized on the stage of a theater when the theater is unoccupied and would otherwise be completely dark." This new series aims to maximize usage of the two theaters onsite at Abingdon, the 98-seat June Havoc and the 56-seat Dorothy Strelsin, and energize the momentum of a new work.