Am I the only one who liked the Roundabout's THE WOMEN?

It seems every time I've seen it discussed on this board, people hated it.

Personally I enjoyed it VERY much. I think Cynthia Nixon was a superb Mary Haines and the same can be said about Kristen Johnston and Rue McClanahan.

Also some great featured performances from Amy Ryan, Jennifer Coolidge and Mary Louise Wilson.

Not to mention the scenes that Mary Bond Davis and Julie Halston stole.

Yes, the show had it's faults...there were times when Hallie Kate Eisenberg just made me want to claw my ears out.

I loved the sets and costumes as well.

Overall I really enjoyed this show.

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I saw it on PBS and loved it. I've been looking for it on dvd ever since. any info?

Loved it on pbs

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anything with Cynthia and Jennifer Coolidge would be good enuff for me!!! can i get the dvd online or something?

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Perhaps I'd have felt differently had I never seen the classic film version, but since I had I couldn't help but feel the revival paled in comparison. I wasn't crazy about the direction or much of the casting. The sole exception for me -- Jennifer Coolidge was BRILLIANT in a small role ("What's that on the baby's nose?" "Oh, it's an ash"). Aside from Coolidge, I found the entire production mediocre.

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I loved Jennifer Coolidge and also Heather Matarazzo's scene in the kitchen with the cook over Sylvia and Stephen's fight. The costumes and sets I also found wonderful. However, as Margo said, the show only paled in comparison to the classic movie version.

I'm sorry, but no one could play a more comical "love-to-hate" Sylvia than Roz Russell. And no one could play a bitchier Crystal than Joan Crawford. Also the little girl in the movie, forgot her name, was LEAGUES above Hallie Kate Eisenberg who couldn't act her way out of a paper bag and certainly couldn't make the best of that amazing monologue she has telling Crystal off.

I love every woman who was IN "The Women" on Broadway as an actress, but I didn't like most of them in their roles. Granted, I felt that with the right director they all could have been wonderful. I didn't hate it, it was more of a disappointment.

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Hearing Elaine Stritch talk about the one time she WAS in The Women in At Liberty is priceless enough.

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I thought it was great! A very talented, funny cast and an engaging story. The night I was there, as I recall, the audience seemed to love it. I even enjoyed waching it on TV, and watching theater on tv is something I usually don't enjoy.

What I remember besides a naked Jennifer Tilly, was it was the first thing I saw post 9/11 and just being there was important

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I agree that Jennifer Coolidge stole this show. It was an easy crime, however.

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I agree with Margo. It was excruciating live. I thought it would never end.

It made me wonder how Cynthia Nixon could be so perfect in Sex and the City and so wooden onstage.

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PalJoey---My dad had the same problem with Sidney Poitier back in the '50s on stage. Said he was "stiff, awkward and wooden." He didn't move AT ALL. I personally think this comes from years of TV and film acting. Hitting your marks and holding, etc. Keeping everything "small."

Some people can transfer mediums very well, and others can't. I still think Cynthia is terrific.

I actually saw her years ago, in a Los Angeles production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and she was wonderful. The leads were Glenda Jackson and John Lithgow, and Albee (mis)directed it. Some playwrights should NOT get hold of their own material, ya know? He tried to make it into a light comedy (as he always intended it to be) and drained any sense of relevance out of the piece. Dull, and ordinary. But Cynthia rocked as Honey.

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I loved this Revival. Very well done and a solid production. I taped the PBS Airing, and I lend it out constantly.