S: Is for Soul Searching

Nora and Delia Ephron have created "Love, Loss and What I Wore," based on the book by Ilene Beckerman. This piece weaves stories all centered around dresses that span a lifetime. With a rotating cast of five, I saw Rosie Ms. O’Donnell, Tyne Daly, Katie Finneran, Natasha Lyonne, and Samantha Bee. As they sit on chairs they recall growing up and the pains and joys of what make us who we are. This is a show for women, by women and the effect is like being at a personal tea party, where it is safe to let down our hair and say who we are. Like most people my favorite piece is when Rosie O’Donnell describe the annoyance of not finding anything inside a purse and the weight they have on our lives. As I was in the bathroom I knew several people all of who knew this was directed to people like me. With a strong emotional connection it is with resonance how clothes mark the pivotal moments in women’s lives. Tyne Daily is Gingy who stories of three marriages, motherhood and the death of a child, draw out the stories of the other women. Emotions run high as a woman gives up wearing miniskirts in college after being raped, but refuses to give up her beloved boots. Finding of the perfect wedding attire for two lesbians as their families take opposing attitudes to their nuptials and the tattoo a cancer survivor to have a tattoo on her newly reconstructed breast. Director Karen Carpenter helps us identify with these women which gives us insight to ourselves. “Love, Loss, and What I Wore,” plays at the Westside Theater 407 West 43rd Street, through Dec. 13.
Who needs therapy with a Broadway season like this and that is a F.A.C.T.