The rarity factor is practically off the scale when it comes to this cartoonishly bright, buoyant revival of Stephen Sondheim’s early cult flop. It has been staged with emphatic flair by Georgie Rankcom...
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Somehow accomplishing 'Simple' and other busy songs on a thin strip of stage, Georgie Rankcom’s production brilliantly gives the show new contexts.
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What this trailblazing talent [Stephen Sondheim] never short of an opinion might make of Georgie Rankcom's production is anyone's guess, though I suspect he would admire a sizeably non-binary set of artists gathered on a show about otherness and non-conformity.
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...there are equally good reasons why this show is rarely revived. Rankcom’s production will please bereaved Sondheim completists. Anyone more discerning should give it a body-swerve.
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A whimsical political satire written with Arthur Laurents, it is, well, pretty loony...ironically, the show is so strenuously unconventional that all meaning is lost. A fun attempt, but this is one for the Sondheim completists.
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Sondheim described his show as a “cartoon”, which seems a fitting description for Rankcom’s fantastically silly retelling...In a production that celebrates all that are considered ‘other’ in society, it is fitting that the abundantly talented, diverse cast carry this largely muddled story.
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Ultimately, Sondheim and Laurents's bizarre confection isn't in whistling distance of being a great musical, but it is undeniably a notorious part of Broadway history, and one that all musical theatre completists will want to encounter.
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