Van Hansis in Die Mommie, Die!

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According to Playbill, the actor playing our favorite gay Oakdale resident, Van Hansis, is joining the cast of a revival of Charles Busch's Die Mommie, Die!, which begins previews at New World Stages October 10th and officially opens October 21. Hansis will play "Lance," disturbed son of "Angela Arden" (played in drag by Charles Busch).

If you haven't already seen the play (or the movie), here's the plot:

A comedy-thriller steeped in the glamour of 1960s Hollywood, Die Mommie Die! tells the story of Angela Arden's hateful marriage to film producer Sol Sussman . Desperate to find happiness with her younger lover, an out-of-work TV actor named Tony Parker, Angela gruesomely murders her husband with the aid of a poisoned suppository. In a plot that reflects Greek tragedy as well as Hollywood kitsch, Angela's manipulative daughter, Edith, convinces her "emotionally disturbed" brother, Lance (played by Hansis), that together they must avenge their father's death—by killing their mother.

With his storyline heating up on As The World Turns, we wonder that the actor had time in his busy schedule to play yet another conflicted gay youth. We're not complaining though!

Check out the trailer for the movie version (which featured Stark Sands in Hansis' role) after the jump.