Wayman_Wong said: "Thanks to BroadwayHD's streaming of Roundabout's revival, I caught Rose Byrne and Kelli O'Hara's Tony-nominated performances. They play Jane and Julia, two upper-class, British gal pals who get progressively sloshed as they hope to reunite with a former French lover they both romanced in the past. Byrne and O'Hara are a riot in this 1925 three-act comedy as they fall over furniture, try to light cigarettes and stumble over the stairs in David Rockwell's ritzy-looking set. Alas, Coward's play is a victim of its ''Fallen'' archness. It's so slight and takes so long to set up or pay off. And none of the men in this production (Christopher Fitzgerald and Aasif Mandvi as their dull husbands or Mark Consuelos as the former flame) ever catch fire as Byrne and O'Hara's comic foils, so this ''Fallen'' farce staggers its way to the end."
I thought Christopher Fitzgerald was good, though I agree about the other two. Tracee Chimo was OK. You are right about it being a slight play, but the two stars are delightful and make it worth seeing.
Updated On: 6/6/26 at 09:54 AM