One can visit this revival of Dale Wasserman's mental-institution drama about individuality vs. conformity and men vs. women without paying too much attention to those somewhat clumsily handled themes. It's enough to relish Gary Sinese taking a role utterly identified with another actor and giving it a compelling spin all his own. (By contrast, Amy Morton's Nurse Ratched is too reminiscent of Louise Fletcher's hushed control freak.)
The final confrontation feels forced, as does the contrivance of McMurphy not escaping through an open window only because the playwright needs him to stay and be martyred. But so many sequences remain sure-fire grabbers that Cuckoo's Nest is the rare show that really does stay rumbling in your head long after the curtain's come down.
