Miss Lulu Bett
Tickets and Information

OVERVIEW TICKETS SCHEDULE CAST PHOTOS VIDEO

SHOW INFORMATION

This show has not yet been rated.

CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 26, 2000
Closed Apr 23, 2000

Playing at
Mint Theater

Directions & Map

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Zona Gale's, 1920 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Miss Lulu Bett will be the latest production to be re-discovered by the inventive and curious Mint Theater. This is the story of one woman's journey to independence and self-discovery. When it premiered in 1920, The New Republic described it as "a serious comedy of emancipation." One week after its opening (eight days after its premiere at Sing Sing Prison), Zona Gale bowed to pressure and re-wrote the play's final act, devising a pat ending that satisfied the conventional tastes of the day. The Mint Theater will present the play with its original ending.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

Mint Theater
311 W 43rd St
New York, NY 10036

The Mint's mission is to bring new vitality to neglected plays.

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

It's not every day the chance pops up to see a production of Zona Gale's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Miss Lulu Bett. In fact, as things currently stand, it comes around every 80 years, slightly more frequently than Halley's Comet. Playgoers with a burning desire to catch the all but forgotten work are in luck, however, since The Mint Theater--following their production of The Voysey Inheritance, Harley Granville Barker's equally neglected work--are presenting Miss Lulu Bett for the first time since David Belasco opened it in New York City after an out of town try out at, of all places, Sing Sing.

Therefore, theater lovers hungry to fill lapses in their Pulitzer Prize viewing are urg[...]

» Read More

Reviewed by David Finkle on Mar 27, 2000