GUESSING GAME

The Los Angeles Theatre Center is saying emphatically that its upcoming play “Alfred and Victoria: A Life” is not based on the oft-times kinky 12-year relationship between the late department store magnate Alfred Bloomingdale and his murdered mistress, the notorious Vicki Morgan.

“It possibly bears some similarity to real-life characters,” said Constance Harvey, press rep for the theater, “but this is a fictionalized play and any resemblance is in the eye of the beholder.” The characters have no last names in the play and it would be “incorrect and misleading” to suggest a connection to real people, she added.

Funny, but those characters in the play also have a 12-year relationship. And Kim Catrall, who plays Victoria, left no doubts in an interview with Outtakes that she thinks the Morgan-Bloomingdale affair served as the basis of Donald Freed’s play. (Phillip Baker Hall will portray Alfred.)

“This play (scheduled to run Oct. 30-Dec. 7) goes into the emotional need Alfred and Vicki had for each other, and looks carefully at the Svengali way in which he tried to mold her,” said Cattrall, who used Morgan’s last name several times in the interview. “It deals more with his emotional dominance over her (Morgan) than with their sexual manipulations.”