Falling For Eve

Do we really need another musical treatment of Adam and Eve? The world’s first couple has already been charmingly profiled in a cute little one-act tuner, “The Diary of Adam and Eve,” part of 1966’s “The Apple Tree,” by Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock, and Jerome Coopersmith. Derived from Mark Twain’s story of the same name, this concise playlet gently satirizes the eternal push-pull of friction and romance between the sexes. The authors of “Falling for Eve” try for a broader scope by including an examination of innocence and worldliness, the ruminations of God on his creation, a subplot involving a pair of amorous angels, and a variation on the old tale of who bites into that forbidden fruit and who doesn’t. The result is a mildly amusing sketch but nothing to get excited over. It’s pleasant enough, but at 90 minutes it feels stretched, and the show fades from memory as soon as you leave the theater.