If not for the unbridled drinking, it might easily have been a screwball comedy.
Just look at them: Kirsten, blondly beautiful with a tolerant smile and a quick riposte; Joe, curly-haired cute but too arrogant to grasp that he’ll have to up his game to win this woman.
It can’t be me; you don’t know me.”This is the addiction-canon classic “Days of Wine and Roses,” though, so some of us already know them.
In Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel’s jazzy, aching musical based on the teleplay and the film, Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James are an awfully glamorous Kirsten and Joe — O’Hara, in exquisite voice, singing 14 of the show’s 18 numbers, seven of them solos.
Directed in its world premiere by Michael Greif for Atlantic Theater Company, this “Days of Wine and Roses” fills the old Gothic Revival parish house that is the Linda Gross Theater with glorious sound.
Persons:
Kirsten, blondly, “, ”, Miller’s, Piper Laurie, Cliff Robertson, Lee Remick, Jack Lemmon, Joe, Craig Lucas, Adam Guettel’s, Kelli O’Hara, Brian d’Arcy James, Joe — O’Hara, Michael Greif, Linda Gross
Organizations:
Atlantic Theater Company
Locations:
New York City, Miller’s