Overview
- The Off‑Broadway parody began performances May 12, officially opened Tuesday, May 26, and producers have extended the limited engagement through September 7 at the 6th Floor Theater.
- The show was written by Dylan MarcAurele and is directed and produced by Alan Kliffer, with Jay Armstrong Johnson as Ilya and Jimin Moon as Shane leading a small company that includes Ryann Redmond, Cherry Torres, and Ryan Duncan.
- Producers compress six hourlong TV episodes into an roughly 80‑minute, sexually explicit send‑up that uses a narratorial conceit of three fan ‘Susans’ and features audience participation when a patron is invited onstage as a supporting character.
- Early reviews praise Johnson and Moon for spot‑on impersonations and moments of genuine emotional heft, while multiple critics call out intelligibility problems in Germán Martinez’s sound design and occasional revolving‑set or mechanical glitches on the cramped stage.
- The quick, do‑it‑yourself mounting and use of an intimacy coordinator reflect care in staging explicit material, and the extension signals strong fan demand that keeps the production and its playful satire of the show’s broad "wine‑mom" fandom in the public eye.