Monday, January 4, 2010
Onstage / Performing Arts / Arts Missing Morticia
Posted By Deanna Isaacs on 01.04.10 at 03:14 PM
- Joan Marcus
- Bebe Neuwirth, Nathan Lane
Tribune critic Chris Jones had noted on opening night that Neuwirth didn't seem to be having fun. (Reader critic Tony Adler called it a "pastiche," but admired its grace and craft.)
Nathan Lane, carrying on as Gomez, Morticia's partner in ghoulish bliss, credited understudy Rachel de Benedet during bows on News Year's Eve with pulling off "the hardest thing in theater"—stepping in and giving a "flawless" performance.
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