Theater
June, 1971
The three sisters in Paul Zindel's And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little are schoolteachers: a wilted innocent on the edge of insanity (Julie Harris), a wisecracking middle sibling on the brink of despair (Estelle Parsons) and a survivor who has freed herself from the family strangle hold at the price of her own humanity (Nancy Marchand). These are queen-size characters ripped from the author's memory book (as was his earlier hit, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds) and, as they mo...
