See it if This was an enjoyable play about real people I didn't know about. Sad and funny. Clever staging and premise.
Don't see it if you don't enjoy one-person shows. Can be slow at times and painful to watch (I know people just like that)
See it if You enjoy stories about strained mother/daughter relationships. Very entertaining & interesting true story that I was not familiar with.
Don't see it if You dislike one person shows. Grant is not the best actress however I very much enjoyed her play so it ultimately did not matter.
See it if you don’t mind another 1 person show. This one has some broad appeal, speaking to those whose parents didn’t love them enough or correctly.
Don't see it if You don’t need to see anyone else work out there issues on stage. I think maybe more women maybe could relate to this with their mothers. Read more
See it if A play about a mother who is unemotional about her daughter.
Don't see it if Very uneven throughout, never gets deep enough into each others lives.
See it if you want to learn about Bess Myerson from her daughter's point of view with good projections and revealing, yet guarded information.
Don't see it if you expect anything more than a one-person show where the interaction between mother and daughter is all by interruptive telephone calls.
See it if u want to see an an unappreciated daughter deliver a hate letter to her once-famous, former beauty queen (& profoundly narcissistic) mother.
Don't see it if u want to avoid a mostly humorless, action-free "Bessie Dearest"; ur not interested in participating in Grant's personal catharsis/therapy. Read more
See it if Sad/Funny true relationship between mother and daughter.
Don't see it if one woman show, that is slow at time.
See it if You are interested in the true life of Bess Meyerson and her narcissism, this your play. It read like Page 6 from the NY Post.
Don't see it if You want a happy biography.
"Bess Myerson’s ‘Ugly Daughter’ Recalls Miss America Dearest Barra Grant’s autobiographical solo play plumbs her fraught relationship with her mother, the famous politician and beauty queen Bess Myerson."
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"Miss America's Ugly Daughter Dishes on a Beauty Queen's Private Cruelty: Bess Myerson's daughter performs her confessional solo show off-Broadway."
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"Barra Grant Tells of Her Iconic and Infamous Mom in 'MISS AMERICA'S UGLY DAUGHTER: BESS MYERSON AND ME'"
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"Grant is a pleasant, undemonstrative performer…While not given to histrionics, she earns our engagement as she…leads to…an act of forgiveness. 'Miss America's Ugly Daughter' is neither a mess nor the best of Bess but the inherent fascination of its subject covers a multitude of sins."
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"It is certainly an informative evening and of course who doesn't love a little gossip about celebrities. It is not so much that Ms. Barra has written a meaty role to showcase her acting ability but the honesty of purely being herself telling her story."
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"Barra Grant, Miss America's (Bess Myerson's) daughter, has no respite from harangues from Bess and the latter's two failed marriages and multiple relationships."
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