Audra McDonald brings such breadth of skill and depth of feeling to Lonny Price's lukewarm revival of this musical about a love-starved spinster that she threatens to burst the seams.

So, it would seem, does Christina Applegate, the appealing but underequipped star of the lukewarm revival of "Sweet Charity" that opened last night at the Al Hirschfeld Theater after weeks of widely reported toil and strife.

(Isherwood) 'A TOUCH OF THE POET' It takes Gabriel Byrne, playing a self-dramatizing monster father, roughly an hour to find his feet in Doug Hughes's lukewarm revival of Eugene O'Neill's drama.

If you are familiar with Mr. Laurents's drama, which opened last night in a generally lukewarm revival at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, this description probably doesn't tally with your idea of Leona, the very American executive secretary who falls for a very Italian married man.

The conflagration occurs midway through what until then has been at best a lukewarm revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Touch of the Poet."

AIDAN GILLEN, 'THE CARETAKER' Making his Broadway debut in the smallest role in this lukewarm revival, he demonstrated that silence in Pinterland is worth a thousand spoken threats and snatched the show from his more famous co-stars (Patrick Stewart, Kyle MacLachlan).