Critical Reaction
Critical Reaction
"Total enchantment. A spellbounding score, witty enough to make old stories fresh for adults, lovely enough to enchant youngsters."
– Daily News
"Bewitching... dazzling... triumphant."
– New York Post
"Non-stop pure pleasure. A ravishing explosion of color and melody and magic and laughter."
– TIME Magazine
"[Sondheim's] lovely score – poised between melody and dissonance – is the perfect measure of our tenuous condition. The songs invariably follow the characters' thinking patterns, as they weigh their options and digest their experience. Needless to say, that doesn't make for traditional show-stoppers. But it does make for vivacity of another kind. And Sondheim's lyrics... are brilliant."
– The Washington Post