"While the romantic aspect is so upfront, it's negligible and inconsequential in meaning. 'From Here to Eternity\ offers a clear, uncompromising stance on the army. "
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“the butchering of the book aside, From Here to Eternity remains a superb musical with an outstanding score. It is the music and the cast, in particular Jonathon Bentley and Jonny Amies, that make this revival a roaring success.”
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"Tim Rice’s lyrics are the most striking aspect of a crisp production which can also feel heavy-handed"
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" 'From Here to Eternity' never makes up its mind – it’s not an anti-war statement, not a tale of forbidden romances and not an operatic tragedy of epic proportions. It really only finds its feet in a sensational evocation of the tumultuous attack itself – but, by then, it’s all over bar the dying. "
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"Rice’s inventive but mature work helps make a show that is always diverting but never quite snowballs into more than the sum of its parts and never quite convinces you this story makes best sense as musical."
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"Smock’s production itself, with its sinewy choreography and strong sense of soldiers as both brothers and perennial outsiders, does bring out the best in Stuart Brayson’s muscular, if slightly too jolly mash-up of swampy blues, swing and jazz."
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"I'm not convinced 'From Here To Eternity' really needed reviving, but audiences who miss Saigon and fancy a break from Les Mis but still want to be bombastically belted at, may well have a wonderful time."
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"There’s barely a misstep in Smock’s formidable production: it has the energy of a prizefight, the pathos of doomed romance and the tension of a ticking bomb."
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