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Previews:
October 12, 2001
Opened:
November 8, 2001
Ended:
January 13, 2002
Country:
USA
State:
New York
City:
New York
Company/Producers:
Roundabout Theater Company (Todd Haimes, artistic dir)
Theater Type:
Broadway
Theater:
American Airlines Theater
Theater Address:
West 42nd Street
Genre:
Comedy
Director:
Scott Elliott
Review:
Don't be fooled by the many well-known names in the cast or the assumption that Clare Booth Luce's comedy is some kind of feminist classic; The Women is a dismaying experience, less for its comic misogyny than for its parade of really bad performances, from the intolerable (Heather Matarazzo) to the merely desperate (Jennifer Coolidge, Jennifer Tilly). Cynthia Nixon, as noble Mary, emerges unscathed, but it is the treasurable Mary Louise Wilson, all class and clarity as Mrs. Morehead, who truly shows what might have been.
Parental:
adult themes
Cast:
Jennifer Coolidge, Jennifer Tilly, Rue McClanahan, Heather Matarazzo, Mary Louise Wilson, Cynthia Nixon, etc.
Technical:
Costumes: Isaac Mizrahi.
Critic:
David Lefkowitz
Date Reviewed:
November 2001