“Wishful”: Amusing, Superficial
Carrie Fisher’s autobiographical one-person show, “Wishful Drinking,” has opened on Broadway to mixed reviews, with a rave from the New York Times. I join the chorus of praise for Fisher’s dry wit and amusing anecdotes, but I also agree with the Variety critic, David Rooney, who said, This “stage memoir is a journey to self-knowledge that rushes through the bumpiest part of the trip — the addiction years — always en route to the punchline.” In other words, the narrative doesn’t go very deep, and thus misses the opportunity to move us in addition to entertaining us.
