"Its bevy of female roles still make it an exciting accomplishment, one that seems destined to live on in future productions or school stages. But in the show’s effort to tell a vast mystery, it forgets the importance of clarity."
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"This Picnic At Hanging Rock staging yearns to scale a further mile, like the girls who pine from an escape from time and the inevitable doom of growing up."
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"Suffering from too many sound-alike songs and too few moments of genuine horror, Picnic at Hanging Rock at least uses the stage as a place to revel in the unexplained and contemplate our own insignificance to the grander (dis)order of the universe."
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"In terms of prestige and tantalizing plot, it must have seemed catnip to its authors, librettist Hilary Bell and composer Greta Gertler Gold. But certain types of material don't thrive onstage, alas, and Picnic at Hanging Rock poses challenges that its authors haven't been able to address."
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"In the context it may seem like Bell wanting to include a takeaway message about the individual’s right to remain forever alive in some way, shape or form. Not a bad thought with which to send off the exiting crowd."
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Bell’s lyrics are either too prosaic or too poetic without creating a magical world, while Gold’s folk-pop score often sounds the same throughout.
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Like the clutch of girls cooing over their Valentine gifts to each other, this musical version of ‘Picnic’ is alive with promise and possibility.
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Haunting score and bewitching lyrics entangle and inspire.
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