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The Guardian
Puppetry is no longer kids' stuff. It's been expressively used in Shakespeare and Puccini and now comes this acclaimed New York musical to rechristen the old Albery Theatre.
As a late convert to the art of string-pulling and manual manipulation, I warmed to this Muppet-style mix of humans and puppets even if, after two hours, I felt, as Mr Bennet said of his daughter's piano playing, it had delighted me sufficiently.
The Times
It’s mischievous and, frankly, rather juvenile stuff — but then what’s so wrong with that? Indeed, there’s something almost refreshing in several of the jaunty-sounding songs. Rodgers and Hart never composed a number called It Sucks, referring to people’s unfulfilled lives. You won’t find a song called Everybody’s a Little Bit Racist in the Lerner and Loewe archives or Schadenfreude, which is a jolly salute to the enjoyment of other people’s unhappiness, in Kander and Ebb’s unpublished files.
