Miss Firecracker

REVIEW
Welcome to Yazoo City, Mississippi. What more likely setting for playwright Beth Henley to serve up this thoroughly charming piece of American pie filled with a cast of characteristically odder-than-odd characters. A crackerjack ensemble of actors is headed by Hunter as a slightly eccentric "girl with a past," whose one dream in life is to win the annual Miss Firecracker Beauty Pageant. Sparks fly when her rapacious cousins Steenburgen and Robbins descend on her fragile ego with a ferocity that only family members can muster. Woodard adds comic zip as Hunter's daffy seamstress with a penchant for hearing voices through her eyeballs.