Play Review: 'Jane Eyre'

Tepid reviews and the promise of gothic gloom have kept theatergoers away from this musical adaptation of the Charlotte Bronte novel. Their loss: While the play is overlong, it’s also more intelligent and tuneful than almost any other new musical this season. Marla Schaffel nicely walks the line between propriety and passion as Jane, and James Barbour is a superbly sardonic Rochester, but it’s the production that’s the star, with ”the scent of an English garden” truly captured by surreal, minimalist stagecraft. See it while you can. B