“Almost all of the lines of dialogue and most of the lyrics sound as if they have exclamation marks attached.”
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“Essentially, the show feels a bit like a gaudy chocolate box – alluring, but full of empty wrappers.”
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"Despite much that is laudable in conception, the musical is a misfire, not taking us into the Fitzgerald’s marriage nor into their work"
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“It’s a frustratingly inconsistent evening but, for all that, it’s heartening to see a new musical genuinely trying to break into unusual and challenging territory.”
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“Beautiful Little Fool takes all the glamour, the outrageousness, the cleverness, the vitality, the fights, the drinking, the intensity of the lives that F Scott and Zelda lived and reduces them to schmaltz.”
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“But no melodies linger from the many ballads, and there is no sense of the spark or wit of these two wordsmiths colliding.”
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