Actress and comedienne Julie Halston will guest-star as Judy Chocolates in the second weekly installment of Douglas Carter Beane's stage soap opera The Cartells on October 23. The four-part series began Monday, October 16, and plays every Monday through November 6 at Comix in Manhattan's Meatpacking District. Halston plays the queen of the Republican Boiler Room, an operation set up by Karl Rove that cold-calls people and supposedly sells them glamorous homes in beautiful parts of the country.
Directed by Carl Andress, The Cartells is a joint production of Drama Dept. and Comix. As previously reported, the stage soap is about a wealthy oil family having too much fun in an Aaron Spelling kind of way. For those audience members who miss an episode, each weekly performance will begin with "Previously on The Cartells…"