Fox, playing an upscale housewife named Morgan, has a strong celebrity presence on stage, and while R&B crooner Brian McKnight -- who plays Raymond, her philandering husband -- needs to work on increasing his acting range and projecting his emotional state in such a large house, his smooth voice is a show-stopper. (The higher he got, the louder the cheers from the audience.)

The solid cast includes comedians Jonathan Slocumb, Gary "G-Thang" Johnson and an especially effective Karen Malina White, who has a firm handle on when to ham it up and when to hold back a little with her character.

Playwright Johnson obviously wasn't trying for a deep literary approach here. He's more interested in maximizing the comic impact of his cast, and what suffers is any sort of real nuance in the relationship between Morgan and Raymond. (There's no foreshadowing before he dumps her, and the plot's ensuing twists don't seem to be grounded as much in the characters as in the need for quickly moving the story along.) But Johnson knows how to make his audience laugh, and the climactic scenario he sets up -- which prompted that excited woman in the audience to scream out her phone number -- is a textbook example of knowing when to pile on the silly. The way the audience leaped to its feet at the end of the show, he's obviously got a good thing going.