Whores of Lost Atlantis — Charles Busch

Flamboyant, emotional, would-be star Julian Young can wait no more for his starring
vehicle, so he devises one in an epic eight-hour session and sets out to stage it, casting himself as the female lead (in drag, of course) and assembling a supporting cast that includes some of the most unforgettable eccentrics ever to answer a cattle call. Now the real drama begins....

Will the sinister Kiko steal Julian's play, Whores of Lost Atlantis -- or, failing that, will she sabotage his career? Will the hunky Buster ever learn his lines? Will Julian end up falling in love with his stage manager -- who happens to be a former gangster's moll and a woman? Will he ever get the hair off his legs? The answers -- not to mention cataclysmic destruction, temples falling, hermaphrodites, evil emperors, and two bitchy courtesans, among other spectacles -- can be found only in this sidesplitting, gender-bending roman à clef by the author of Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, the longest-running play in off-Broadway history.