I'm not sure where the point of disagreement is here.
Reread my post. I said that Spelling Bee got "mostly positive reviews," with two notable exceptions, which is exactly the case (other than accidentally subtracting a star from Barnes' review). It's a pretty bad review for the show:
"Its intimacy and sly humors might well flourish more readily in an off-Broadway ambiance, but, like Queen Victoria, I was not amused. I was not even entertained.
How do you spell C-L-O-Y-I-N-G?
But it is meant to be a musical. And William ("Falsettos") Finn's lyrics and, most particularly, music are mediocre on a grand scale."
I wouldn't call that "mixed" on the score or even the show itself (though yes, he did like the performances and maybe found some of it amusing -- he contradicts himself after saying "I was not amused" -- though "gimmicky").
I also said that the other three got very mixed reviews, which is exactly the case. What did I say that was inaccurate?
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