Bacon gives a solidly appealing performance, becoming increasingly vivacious and warm as Addie deems everyone in the bar to be her new friends, and determines, with intoxicated zeal, to makeaplayfor the man of her dreams.
Ms. Edson, now a middle-school teacher in Atlanta, said she never was gunning specifically forherplay to make it to Broadway, and she fondly recalled an early staging in a tiny New York theater.