Synopsis
The Best of Everything
$13
Published by Dramatists Play Service
2 Male 6 Female
A new adaptation of Rona Jaffe's 1958 bestseller about ambitious secretaries in the big city
These girls want thrilling careers and gay adventures-and husbands and children too, in due time
Today we call that "having it all"
These girls call it "the best of everything"
And they're not sure it's possible either
Reviews
"To my surprised pleasure, The Best of Everything is neither a delirious sendup nor a mordant, finger-wagging deconstruction. It's a respectful, hysteria-free, streamlined and appealingly modest effort that lets Jaffe's working girls speak for themselves ... The whole show is refreshingly free of the 'aren't-we-clever' self-consciousness that often accompanies such excursions into pop-culture past ... This approach gently and divertingly reminds us that Jaffe's novel focused a clear and abidingly useful gaze on women caught in a moment in time that isn's as distant as you might suppose" ~ NY Times
" ... a bubble bath whose froth conceals some pretty dirty water" ~ Time Out NY
"This clever adaptation of Rona Jaffe's novel about secretaries in the 1950s is an absolute treat ... nimbly lives up to its title" ~ TheaterMania