Vanities Revival 2023

Opened: March 30, 2023
Closing: April 22, 2023

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York Theatre Company

Theater at St. Jean's 150 East 76th Street New York, NY 10021

Vanities—The Musical is a heartfelt and humorous chronicle of the lives of three women, Joanne, Kathy, and Mary, tracing them from their late teen years through adulthood. They grow and change, testing the limits of what they thought they knew about themselves, as well as the narrow views of women society has presented them.

Vanities - 2023 - Off-Broadway Cast

Hayley Podschun

Jade Jones

Olivia Kaufmann

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VANITIES–THE MUSICAL: THREE BFFS SING AND DANCE

6 / 10

Well, musical lovers, here’s the tuner again, now as Vanities–The Musical. It’s surely pleasant enough but not so much a revival as, according to advance word, a revisal. Again, as in 2009, it extends the years – originally 1963-74 – that a trio of small-town Texas vanity owners, Kathy, Mary, and Joanne, promise eternal friendship only to strain that promise and in 1990 acknowledge the error of their ways. (Writing in 1976, Heifner understandably had a grasp on 1974 but hadn’t bothered to imagine the future.)

Vanities–The Musical

7 / 10

In its girl-bonding giddiness and primitive stirrings of feminism, the original Vanities somewhat resembled a contemporary effort by Wendy Wasserstein, Uncommon Women and Others, only the latter was more consistent and dug deeper. Vanities- The Musical cobbles such themes together with reasonable dexterity and isn't a chore to sit through, but it simmers, simmers, simmers, never reaching a boil. Those themes may land more strongly with ex-sorority girls of a certain age than they did with this curmudgeon. You'll enjoy Kirshenbaum's pleasant melodies, perhaps identify with the uncomfortable pangs inherent in long-term friendships, and probably be mildly moved by the end. But Vanities–The Musical ends where it does only because it has no place else to go.

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Other Productions of Vanities

2005	New York	Reading New York
2006		World Premiere
2006	New York	NAMT Reading New York
2009	Off-Broadway	Off-Broadway
2023	Off-Broadway	York Theatre Company Off-Broadway Production Off-Broadway

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