Miss America's Ugly Daughter
Miss America's Ugly Daughter
Closed 1h 30m NYC: Upper W Side
71% 85 reviews
71%
(85 Ratings)
Positive
62%
Mixed
31%
Negative
7%
Members say
Entertaining, Funny, Absorbing, Indulgent, Slow

About the Show

In this solo piece, Barra Grant explores her life growing up in the shadow of her mother Bess Myerson, the first and only Jewish Miss America.

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Critic Reviews (6)

The New York Times
January 20th, 2020

"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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Theatermania
January 17th, 2020

"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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BroadwayWorld
January 27th, 2020

"Barra Grant Tells of Her Iconic and Infamous Mom in 'MISS AMERICA'S UGLY DAUGHTER: BESS MYERSON AND ME'"
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Theater Pizzazz
January 17th, 2020

"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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Theatre Reviews Limited
February 26th, 2020

"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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Off Off Online
February 18th, 2020

"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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