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Total Rating: 
****
Previews: 
March 28, 2002
Opened: 
April 21, 2002
Ended: 
July 28, 2002
Country: 
USA
State: 
New York
City: 
New York
Company/Producers: 
Lincoln Center Theater (Andre Bishop, artistic dir; Bernard Gersten, executive producer).
Theater Type: 
Broadway
Theater: 
Belasco Theater
Theater Address: 
111 West 44th Street
Phone: 
(212) 239-6200
Running Time: 
2 hrs, 30 min
Genre: 
Comedy
Author: 
Paul Osborne
Director: 
Daniel Sullivan
Review: 

Paul Osborn's lovely play, Morning's at Seven, has just been extended for another month on Broadway. Run -- do not walk! The play is a peek into a rural past, in 1938, with ordinary Americans and their family interactions. It's almost like an anthropological study of customs, beliefs, taboos of a time long gone as four elderly sisters deal with the consequences of their marriages, lives, and affairs. The entire acting ensemble is super, though Piper Laurie, Julie Hagerty, and Elizabeth Franz really knocked me out with the breadth of their performances.

John Lee Beatty's fine set, Brian MacDevitt's lighting and Jane Greenwood's costumes perfect the atmosphere of the backyards setting, and there's nothing like a good, human play performed by the best of top-level pros. That's what this is.

Cast: 
Buck Henry, Frances Sternhagen, Piper Laurie, Julie Hagerty, William Biff McGuire, Stephen Tobolowsky, Estelle Parsons, Elizabeth Franz, Christopher Lloyd.
Technical: 
Set: John Lee Beatty; Costumes: Jane Greenwood; Lighting: Brian MacDevitt; Sound: Scott Myers.
Other Critics: 
TOTALTHEATER David Lefkowitz !
Critic: 
Richmond Shepard
Date Reviewed: 
June 2002