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Total Rating: 
***1/2
Previews: 
October 19, 1987
Opened: 
September 11, 1987
Ended: 
September 3, 1989
Country: 
USA
State: 
New York
City: 
New York
Company/Producers: 
Lincoln Center Theater
Theater Type: 
Broadway
Theater: 
Lincoln Center - Vivian Beaumont Theater
Theater Address: 
150 West 65 Street
Genre: 
Musical
Author: 
Original Book: Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse; New Book: Timothy Crouse and John Weidman; Music: Cole Porter; Lyrics by Cole Porter.
Director: 
Jerry Zaks
Choreographer: 
Michael Smuin
Review: 

Patti LuPone was born to play Reno Sweeney. The cast brings familiar Cole Porter tunes to brilliant life, and Jerry Zaks’s direction milks big laughs from a silly book. There was talk of moving the show to midtown, but see it at the Beaumont: there isn’t a bad seat in the house.

Cast: 
Patti LuPone
Miscellaneous: 
This review was first published in the capsuled review section of This Week ON STAGE, 6/89.
Critic: 
David Lefkowitz
Date Reviewed: 
October 1987