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‘Days Of Wine And Roses’ Broadway Review: Trying Times For Good Folk In Exemplary Production; Also, A Bouncy ‘Once Upon A Mattress’
It’s easy to feel a bit smug early on in Days of Wine and Roses, as we know so much more – or at least have so much greater vocabularies – when it comes to things like toxic relat…
It’s easy to feel a bit smug early on in Days of Wine and Roses, as we know so much more – or at least have so much greater vocabularies – when it comes to things like toxic relationships and the role of abstinence in maintaining sobriety and all the other tenets of Bill W that have passed into common parlance and popular culture since Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick starred in the 1962 feature film version. If Days of Wine and Roses reminds us that recovery jargon was once as fresh as the young, bound-for-heartbreak couple at the musical’s center, Encores’ scaled-down presentation of the 1959 fractured Fairy Tale Once Upon a Mattress has a daunting task all its own: To get audiences to put aside beloved memories of a youthful Carol Burnett belting out, in ancient black-and-white TV clips, her once-newfound signature song “Shy.” Sandwiched between her delightful 2022 spin alongside Hugh Jackman in The Music Man and next month’s costarring role as Mrs. Lovett opposite Aaron Tveit’s demon barber, Foster couldn’t have found a tastier palate cleanser than Winnifred, nor a more charmed home to rest her weary, ever-so-busy head.
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