Lively 'Ladies' can't find exit.(Spotlight)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: March 31, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Lisa Bornstein, Rocky Mountain News

"Natural is all right, but sublime is always better."

Playwright Lillian Groag gives the line to Sarah Bernhardt, but her heart seems to lie with the sentiment as well in the playful frosting that is The Ladies of the Camellias.

Layered with bons mots and outsized personalities, the comedy imagines the meeting of legendary actresses Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse in Bernhardt's Paris theater. There, Duse was to perform Bernhardt's signature role of Marguerite in The Lady of the Camellias. Already a rocky introduction, ...

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