DADDY LONG LEGS St. James’s Theatre

American author Jean Webster, who was strongly supportive of women’s suffrage, published her epistolary novel in 1912. An 18-year-old girl, brought up in an orphanage, is given a chance to go to a ladies’ college by an unknown rich benefactor on the condition she writes him a monthly letter. The well-read heroine became a role model for many young women at the turn of the century who were seeking education and independence. The letters have been turned into a sweet and gently humorous two-hander musical by John Caird and Paul Gordon and it is appealingly acted and sung by Megan McGinnis and Robert Adelman Hancock.