Critical Reaction

Critical Reaction

"Mr. Loesser loves the rich, rolling exhilarating cadences that can spill out into an auditorium whenever a musical show approaches the freedom and the melodic fury of opera... Mr. Loesser has simply opened his treasure chest and hurled the bountiful prizes..." -Walter Kerr, Herald Tribune, May 4, 1956



"It is a masterpiece of our era..." -Robert Coleman, Daily Mirror, May 4, 1956



"An overwhelmingly inventive new musical, a rich show drenched in song." -William Hawkins, World-Telegram & Sun, May 4, 1956