Theatre Row presents this stylized, darkly humorous, musical melodrama inspired by Oscar Wilde's 'The Portrait of Dorian Gray."
It's 1947 and Julian Gray, a beautiful but sheltered young Plantation heir, decides to start a new life in Hollywood. He finds himself the object of all sorts of attention when the great director Hilton Wheeler casts him as the lead in a major motion picture. Julian falls in love with Stella, a makeup girl on the set of his first film. But all hell breaks loose when he inherits a mysterious Victorian vanity table, which turns out to be possessed by a powerful demon. Julian is offered the chance to maintain his good looks indefinitely, as long as he agrees to forsake love in favor of hedonistic pleasure.