This is the one highbrow entry in a spring season that's trending, ahem, in other directions.
Like her, "I Am My Own Wife" is in many ways an unlikely entry in a Broadway season populated by poorly received big-money musicals ("Taboo," "The Boy From Oz") and short-lived new plays ("Bobbi Boland," "Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks").
With plans for the stateside edition to be presented biannually (2017 and 2019 are already guaranteed), organizers should use the time to iron out the frustrating quirks and flesh out the concepts that could make Rock in Rio a worthy entry in festival season.
If a football club offers the same discount for all season tickets - Main Stand - $50 for single entry, $300 for a season; Stand 2 - $35 for single entry, $210 for a season; Stand 3 - $25 for single entry, $150 for a season - what would the price be for a Stand 4 season ticket, where a single entry costs $21? The answers are $6.10, $1.05 and $126 respectively.
It was given its official premiere on Thursday night at the New York State Theater as the fourth entry in this season's Diamond Project.
The other is Juno Boyle, the long-suffering Irish matriarch of "Juno," portrayed by the wonderful Victoria Clark in the second entry in this season's Encores! series of musicals in concert.
O'Brien, a former Boston Globe reporter, spent almost a year in Scott County researching the story, the latest entry in the growing season-with-a-team genre most famously mined by Buzz Bissinger ("Friday Night Lights"), Madeleine Blais ("In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle") and Michael Lewis ("The Blind Side").
Despite calling the entry "an occasionally too-slow episode", VanDerWerff praised Anderson, lauding her performance as "another potential Emmy tape in a season full of them".
"Baby Not on Board" is the fourth entry in the seventh season of the animated television series Family Guy.
