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Previews:
June 15, 2001
Opened:
July 12, 2001
Ended:
September 16, 2001
Country:
USA
State:
New York
City:
New York
Company/Producers:
Roundabout Theater Company
Theater Type:
Broadway
Theater:
American Airlines Theater
Theater Address:
West 42nd Street
Genre:
Comedy
Review:
Capable mounting of G.B. Shaw warhorse, as usual proving that the playwright can be astonishingly brilliant yet still anemic when it comes to flesh-and-blood drama. Playing the title, Cherry Jones does her patented Cherry Jones; it's more fun to watch David Warner's matter-of-fact Undershaft, Dana Ivey's snappy matriarch and Zak Orth as mama's boy Stephen. The trouble with Major Barbara is that it hits its dramatic height in scene two (at the Salvation Army) and becomes little more than a verbal tennis match after that. By the time Adolphus "wins" in act two, we've got one eye on our watch and the other on the exit.
Cast:
Cherry Jones
Critic:
David Lefkowitz
Date Reviewed:
July 2001
