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Although reviewers grant that this production benefits from some nuanced performances, they still conclude that "The Sound of Music isn't really for grown-ups" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). They predict audiences will continue to devour the show's sentimental story anyway.
Liza Minnelli's new show, a tribute to her father called Minnelli on Minnelli , has been panned-- New York Times reviewer Ben Brantley didn't even like her chorus boys--so the odds of a long run seem limited.
But the New York Times ' Ben Brantley claims the play "bears the rare mark of theatrical greatness: it is rooted in specific, even earthy details but it sets off echoes that go way beyond its sad story."
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."
Doctorow's 1975 novel about turn-of-the-century America gets saddled with forgettable tunes by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens and a book by Terrence McNally that is "thuddingly didactic," especially on race (Lloyd Rose, the Washington Post ). The show has "the aura of something assembled by corporate committee," says the New York Times ' Ben Brantley.