"I'm nobody's fool. . ."

        In 1980 the movie "9 to 5" made Dolly Parton into a movie star, exhilarated the careers of Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin and pushed actor Dabney Coleman into the villain category where he remained. It was a very successful smash-hit comedy which allowed all of its participants to shine. Thirty years later the screenwriter, Patricia Resnick and former star Parton turned the film into a Broadway musical. It was a smash of a different kind, lasting only five months before a two-year national tour and productions in London, summer stock and regional theaters. It provided good roles for six women, used a chorus that could shrink, or swell depending on budget and only needed two men in prominent roles; it made regional and community theater standards easily. Now, in 2022 it is back at the Majestic Theater in West Springfield, Massachusetts and is proof positive that a fine production can save mediocre material. The show at the Majestic is much better than the show deserves with talent dripping off the stage with its dated material that still resonates with the recent court cases of abusive men and dominated women who take things into their own hands and rescue themselves and their compatriots from the corporate slavery that has kept women overwhelmed for more than a century.