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Even with Raquel, it's a poor imitation

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19980605
Author:Patti Hartigan, Globe Staff

THE MILLIONAIRESS Play by George Bernard Shaw Directed by Tina Packer. Sets and costumes, John Pennoyer. Lighting, Michael Giannitti. Sound, Jessica Murrow Coproduced by Shakespeare and Company and Orpheum Theatre-Foxborough At: Orpheum Theatre, Foxborough, through June 14

FOXBOROUGH -- No one involved with the production of "The Millionairess" has ever pretended that the show is anything more than a star vehicle for Raquel Welch, but as vehicles go, you would be better off trying to hail a taxi during a snowstorm in New York.

Let's face it, there is no way even the respected director Tina ...

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