‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ Review: Nanny Doesn’t Know Best
6 / 10
O'Farrell and the Kirkpatrick brothers, whose previous Broadway outing was the 2015 musical 'Something Rotten!,' generate a smattering of laughs with the original material, like Frank's quirk of shouting whenever he lies, and the second half of Daniel's makeover song, when the list of fashion inspirations for a matronly Scottish nanny change from the glamorous Jackie O. and Princess Di to the more practical Margaret Thatcher and Julia Child. And a chorus of singing and dancing internet chefs, there via the magic of a tablet to help Mrs. Doubtfire cook dinner, is hilariously interrupted by an ad for IBS. Yet the scenes that draw the biggest laughs here are still the ones that are almost identical to the ones in the film.
