Abstract
In 1967 Charles Ludlam mounted the first production of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company, Conquest of the Universe; or, When Queens Collide; in 1969 he mounted the company's first award-winning effort, The Grand Tarot, A Masque, which prompted the Village Voice to present Ludlam and the Ridiculous with an Obie for distinguished achievement in the Off-Broadway Theatre. In 1970, The Ridiculous produced its major critical success to date, Bluebeard; A Melodrama in Three Acts, at Christopher's End, "a sleazy gay bar" (with an active back room) on the waterfront of the West Village. In 1974 Ludlam signed the lease for a theatre off Sheridan Square, which ended the transient movements of the troupe through the bars and movie houses of the lower East Side and Wesi Village and settled it directly opposite the Stonewall Inn, which only five years earlier had become the already mythic origin of gay liberation in America, the site of the "hairpin drop heard 'round the world."
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