MORNING’S AT SEVEN
***1/2
(c) 2001 David Lefkowitz. Reviewed April 2001 on Broadway.
Tired of the relentlessly pointless plays littering the season and yearning for the deep contentment one gets from a gentle and satisfying human comedy? Look no further than Paul Osborne’s 1939 charmer, Morning’s at Seven, which was rediscovered two decades ago and, thankfully, re-rediscovered again, courtesy of director Daniel Sullivan and a nifty cast of old pros, most notably William Biff McGuire, Elizabeth Franz, Estelle Parsons, and Buck Henry.
Some of the not-as-old pros are a little too obvious or wink the subtext at the audience, but no matter. This tale of four sisters, three husbands, and four houses adds up to a (nearly) four-star evening.
*
Staged by Daniel Sullivan, Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Morning’s at Seven ran April 21-July 28, 2002 at Broadway’s Belasco Theater.
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