Vanities
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Hedgerow Theatre revives Off-Broadway's longest-running nonmusical, which explores how the world changed for American women in the 1960s and '70s.
Hedgerow Theatre revives Off-Broadway’s longest-running nonmusical, 1976’s Vanities, in which Jack Heifner explores how the world changed for American women in the 1960s and ’70s. We meet a trio of women who live through these changes, played by Lexi Anne, Meredith Beck and Sarah Gafgen, as high-school cheerleaders and best friends on the day of John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. Then the play jumps forward to 1968, when the trio are college sorority sisters, and finally 1974, when a reunion reveals their different life choices. The play holds up surprisingly well today — not as a nostalgia piece, but as a brave and heartwarming portrait of three women growing up.
Through Feb. 9, $15-$34, Hedgerow Theatre, 64 Rose Valley Rd., Rose Valley, Pa., 610-565-4211, hedgerowtheatre.org.
