Heres a motto a Yonkers half-a-millionaire could get behind: What isnt broken doesnt need fixing.
Especially when its got Bernadette Peters.
Like Midler before her, Peters is larger than life but game for a laugh.
Credit: Julieta Cervantes
She is glamorous and brassy and quintessentially New York; she descends a staircase like she invented stairs.
Peters Dolly may be familiar, but shes still a new creation.
I could swear her So Long Dearie was to me.
In short, she plays Dolly like a grade-A meddler, like the matchmaker she is.
When shes alone, she softens, bringing out the widowed Dollys vulnerability.
The other new cast members are strong across the board.
In the Feb. 17 preview I attended, the actress skirt caught twice on a tablecloth.
And I believed that she did.A
