Still, largely thanks to Ms. Lavin's bravura performance, most reviewers shared the opinion of Ben Brantley, who wrote in The New York Times that though "Charles Busch's window-rattling comedy" has moments "cut from the synthetic cloth of television comedy," it "earns its wall-to-wall laughs."

The hard-working demons who possessed Linda Blair in "The Exorcist" have nothing on the forces raging within one Marjorie Taub, the title character of Charles Busch's window-rattling comedy of midlife malaise on the Upper West Side.

In Charles Busch's window-rattling comedy of midlife malaise on the Upper West Side, Marjorie is played by Linda Lavin and this Tony-winning actress brings a high-flying fierceness to being down in the dumps.