Critical Response
The debut concert performance provoked a lukewarm review by the New York Times, and Variety called it "Unrelentingly serious-minded and devoid of the wit that Menken brought to previous projects".
The cast album, however, which cuts several musical numbers and reprises, has been praised.
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