A one woman show with hundreds of characters spanning more than a century narrated by a 99 year old woman from her hospital bed where she is at death's door? Quite a lot to bite off and chew on, don't you think? I believe a better idea would have been to take the NICKLEBY or CIDER HOUSE RULES route with few actor's playing mulitple roles. Lucy could still be the major narrator, but it might be more engaging theatre than the "lecture" format.
I am glad you enjoyed this show, and like I said before, I adore Ellen, but when I heard about this project all I could think was I am happy she is getting such a juicy role and that Gurganus' book might get a little wider audience, but I wish it was in a different format.
PEACE.
