Image Credit: Annabel ClarkAlfred Uhry’s drama Driving Miss Daisy has a storied history: The play first launched Off Broadway to much acclaim (and a Pulitzer Prize) in 1987, before being adapted into a 1989 movie starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman that won the Oscar for Best Picture. (Daisy holds the distinction of being the only film based on an Off Broadway production to win Best Picture.) Now, the play has been revived on Broadway in a new production starring James Earl Jones as the crusty chauffeur Hoke and Vanessa Redgrave as the crotchety widow Daisy. Melissa Rose Bernardo reviewed Daisy for EW, giving this latest incarnation a very middling C grade. While she did call Jones and Redgrave’s performances “high-gloss,” she faults the pair for showing “no apparent bond between these supposed best friends.” Bernardo also writes that British Redgrave’s Atlanta accent is “lost in translation.”
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More Stage reviews from EW.com:
‘Wings’ starring Jan Maxwell
‘Miss Abigail’s Guide to Dating, Mating, and Marriage’ starring Eve Plumb
‘Lombardi’ starring Dan Lauria and Judith Light
HAHAHA… You’ll have to forgive me for not trusting EW critics’ reviews when it comes to the great white way.