Review: ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ does not leap from screen to stage

“Mrs. Doubtfire” certainly rises well above the low bars set by such dismal movie-to-musical-theater transfers as “Ghost,” “Footloose” and my all-time least-favorite, “Dirty Dancing,” which mercifully never made it to Broadway — that’s how bad it was! And it’s not a show that is likely to either rise or fall on the strength (or not) of reviews. Audiences looking for something familiar and family-friendly will hardly go away disgruntled. But it represents another in a long line of forgettable musicals adapted from superior films, which, in a nervous season of recovery on Broadway, doesn’t give a ready-to-cheer critic much to cheer about.