Big Deal! BUG is Having a Revival at My House Too

by James La Bella. @James.La.Bella.

Original Bug photo by Lily Cummings. NEW YORK, NY - Local Manhattan resident Richard “Dick” Smarge has been leading a small but vocal campaign against the quote “deeply unimaginative” revival of Tracy Letts’ Bug currently running Broadway, claiming he can get the same or better in his own East Village walk-up. 

“Bug is back at my place too. You see me braggin’ about it?” Snapped Dick, double-handin’ cigarettes and dollar slices like a pro. “I’m not charging people to come look at it, cause I’m not some sorta weirdo. My bug is just as good as any fancy bug ya get at the rich-person store.”  

Smarge’s claims are not unfounded, as neighbors have also been noting the recent revival in his apartment. Not everyone, however, has been pleased.  

“I hear applause at night,” said Groggy, a strange purple neighbor. “I’m not kidding. Applause and tiny cheers. Like termites are doing a play. I swear. I go to his door and sometimes there’s a line of ants waiting to get in. Cockroach taking tickets. It’s cute. But it’s dirty.”

When asked about his black eye, Groggy said “They’re mean bugs. They’re small but they’re mean. There’s a meanness to them.” 

When pressed, Smarge conceded that his personal revival did have some drawbacks.

“Well, for one, there are dirty dirty bugs everywhere,” said Smarge, nodding to a rogued-up bedbug on her equity ten. “But that’s New York. The real problem is what social media is doing to the fans. We got beetles comin’ in here thinking they can follow a roach home cause of something they read on Yik Yak. Oh, yeah. Bug social media is all on Yik Yak. Didya know that?”  

Unlike the Broadway production, Bug at Smarge’s House has an open run “until the landlord finds out.” There are reports that casting will change after an unfortunate shoes-related incident.