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THE MARITAL BLISS OF FRANCIS AND MAXINE 

Return to the dizzying, dazzling radio daze of the roaring twenties!!!

An original full-length musical
conceived and written by Bill Torres & Fay Simpson
composed by Earl Wentz
Deborah Kampmeier, New York Director
text by James Bosley lighting design & A.D. by Sabrina Hamilton
set design by Kathy Couch  ò  costumes by Tony Oedl Lauren B. Cramer, executive director
 
Anything goes in this dizzying, dazzling return to the radio daze of the roaring twenties.  In this gender-bending-scintillating-sort of seedy (in a Brechtian way) physical musical, you'll meet an unlikely pair who are trying to make it big over the airwaves.  To broaden their appeal, they plan to wed during a broadcast.  Problem is, they're both gay, and both have significant others to occupy their free timeù which they spend with gay abandon in Harlem and in back-alley gin joints. 
The twist at the end is blissfully unexpected.