Enchanted April
Opening Night: April 29, 2003
Closing: August 31, 2003
Theater: Belasco Theatre
Elizabeth Ashley, Jayne Atkinson, Dagmara Dominczyk, and Jane Adams star in Enchanted April, by Matthew Barber. Michael Wilson directs this romantic comedy about four English women who, in forging a lasting friendship, rediscover themselves and romance during a magical month in an idyllic Italian villa, adjacent to the Riviera. The play is based on Elizabeth von Arnim’s 1922 novel, which was previously adapted into a 1992 Miramax-released film directed by Mike Newell.
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April 30, 2003
The Mediterranean sun has nothing on Jayne Atkinson. In Matthew Barber’s ”Enchanted April,” the watery romantic comedy that opened last night at the Belasco Theater, it may be that ole devil sun that brings out the hedonists in a group of repressed Englishwomen vacationing in Italy. But it’s Ms. Atkinson, as one of the vacationers, who produces the truly magical transformation. Whenever she’s onstage, she turns a weak cup of theatrical treacle into a brimming beaker of ambrosia.
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