Theater: Walter Kerr Theater / 219 West 48th Street, New York, NY, 10036
Synopsis:
In the 1850s young Catherine Sloper lives with her father, Dr. Austin Sloper. Catherine is shy, unsophisticated and plain-looking. Morris Townsend courts her, seeking her fortune and not really in love with her. Catherine, however, loves Morris and does not see that he is only after her money. When her father forbids her to marry, she suggests to Morris that they elope. Morris, realizing that her fortune will not be hers if they do so, leaves. Morris eventually returns, but when he seeks to meet with Catherine she refuses to see him, and he understands that his intentions have been discovered; Catherine is now aware.
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November 1, 2012: Oh, boy, candlelight and brandy snifters! Big taffeta dresses and brocade wallpaper and extra-crisp consonants! And let’s not omit that never-fail one-two punch of a literary name (Henry James, in this case) and a Hollywood name (Jessica Chastain, the latest It Girl of thinking person’s cinema). And bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens.
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November 1, 2012: The frizzy wig Jessica Chastain wears in the Broadway revival of The Heiress does her no favors — but that is exactly the point. Her Catherine Sloper is the plain Jane living in 1850 New York City who becomes tongue-tied in the company of everyone other than her disarming widowed aunt (Judith Ivey).
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