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Total Rating: 
**1/2
Previews: 
February 17, 2001
Opened: 
March 15, 2001
Ended: 
May 13, 2001
Country: 
USA
State: 
New York
City: 
New York
Company/Producers: 
Roundabout Theater Company
Theater Type: 
Broadway
Theater: 
American Airlines Theater
Theater Address: 
227 West 42nd Street
Genre: 
Comedy
Author: 
Noel Coward
Director: 
Joe Mantello
Review: 

 Joe Mantello's revival of Noel Coward's most envelope-pushing work starts as strong drama, meanders into mildy amusing comedy and ends as sour farce. Alan Cumming's adorable until he turns into a hammy transvestite freak; Jennifer Ehle's Gilda would be more at home in a Lillian Hellman potboiler than here. By the time Gilda ditches upright Ernest for her desperate friends, we're ready to take out the menage a trash.

Parental: 
adult and sexual themes
Cast: 
Alan Cumming, Jennifer Ehle, Dominic West, John Cunningham, Marisa Berenson.
Technical: 
Set: Robert Brill
Other Critics: 
TOTALTHEATER Jason Clark +
Critic: 
David Lefkowitz
Date Reviewed: 
March 2001