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Brian Dennehy's Willy Loman is "played with majestic, unnerving transparency" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ); Elizabeth Franz (as Linda Loman) draws equally ecstatic reviews.
The New York Times ' Ben Brantley calls Disney's musical version of the biblical story, with a score by Alan Menken ( The Little Mermaid ) and lyrics by Tim Rice ( Evita ), "a Goliath of a yawn."
John Simon describes Chenoweth's performance as "perfection" and says that after the show he wanted "to wrap her in tissue paper and take her home" ( New York ); Ben Brantley describes her performance as "one of those break-out performances that send careers skyward" (the New York Times ). Some critics say several of the actors aren't up to portraying children but that those who succeed make the whole show worthwhile.
But these actors also convey the sense of an internal furnace of pain and anxiety that gives fevered glow to such minutiae" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). However, the play itself is found wanting.
Reviewers declare his play about a 40-year-old virgin and her mother "more immediate and vital than any new drama in seasons" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). Dissenters call McDonagh a "sadistic manipulative writer with an unappealing ruthlessness toward his characters" (Charles Spencer, the London Daily Telegraph ).