The two veterans elevate Broadway’s “The Roommate,” a play about lost souls in rural Iowa.

The Roommate depends utterly on the considerable energies of its stars, Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone, rooted as it is in the slightest of premises and an abundance of culture-clash clichés. The odd-couple pairing of naive Iowan and gruff New Yorker veers into some amusing late-bloomer misadventures,

There's something loose, rebellious, and even wild hiding within the trappings of "The Roommate," a new Broadway production of a play written by Jen Silverman. One just has to wait for it to reveal itself.