"You can certainly admire the efforts made here, while also questioning the wisdom of trying to stage such an inexorably dated – albeit occasionally beguiling – piece."
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"A story of postwar, would-be bohemians engaged in cross-generation, borderline-incestuous romances within their own family and social circle, its characters are thin and dislikeable, its plot preposterous."
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"I don’t want to overreact to what is basically a pretty silly musical with nice tunes and solid performances...Ultimately the story of ‘Aspects of Love’ is probably best viewed as a relic of a different era, when people did actually cop off with their teenage cousins and the British were only just fumblingly acknowledging that sex was a thing."
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"It is, without doubt, a well-oiled show, easy on the eye and ear."
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"This revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1989 hit musical may not quite sweep you off your feet – but it still beguiles"
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"You sit through the two and a half hours hoping that the characters will acquire some sort of depth. They never do."
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"This production represents a gamble, too, and whatever one's reaction to the intractable nuttiness of the material, something about it - rather like a bygone, life-defining love affair - proves impossible to dismiss."
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"Ball performs with characteristic ease, soaringly delivering the song everyone’s waiting for, which has been shamelessly reallocated from Alex to George for the occasion. But enduring this lurid musical male fantasy is a high price to pay: one tiny spark of nostalgia for one giant ick."
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