The Neon Woman is a comic play written by Tom Eyen

Tom Eyen

Tom Eyen was an American playwright, lyricist, television writer and theatre director.Eyen is best known for works at opposite ends of the theatrical spectrum...

. The play is an outrageous murder mystery set in a seedy Baltimore

Baltimore

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 burlesque

American burlesque

American Burlesque is a genre of variety show. Derived from elements of Victorian burlesque, music hall and minstrel shows, burlesque shows in America became popular in the 1860s and evolved to feature ribald comedy and female striptease...

 house run by a retired stripper (Divine). It was written as a vehicle for Pink Flamingos

Pink Flamingos

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 star Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead), who had previously starred in a revival of Eyen's Women Behind Bars

Women Behind Bars

Women Behind Bars is a play by Tom Eyen.A camp spoof of the exploitation films produced by Universal, Warner's, and Republic Pictures in the 1950s, this black comedy is set in the Women's House of Detention in Greenwich Village...

. The cast also featured Helen Hanft

Helen Hanft

-Biography:Hanft was born in New York City. She started her theatrical career in the early 1960 during the Golden Age of experimental theater at such venues as La Mama ETC and Caffe Cino and in a few years she became known as "the Helen Hayes of off-off Broadway." Not a great beauty, she...

, Brenda Bergman, William Duff-Griffin, Maria Duval, Sweet William Edgar, Lee Corbet, Debra Greenfield, Hope Stansbury and George Patterson, and was directed by longtime Eyen collaborator Ron Link

Ron Link

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. It played at the Hurrah Discotheque, a trendy dance club on the upper west side of Manhattan. It opened on April 16, 1978 and played 84 performances, closing on July 15, 1978.