Theatremania.com's comments. My this sounds groundbreaking:
"This new production makes little attempt to excavate or play with that legacy; it is simply an exercise in spectacle, color, and noise, designed to wow a family audience...
Every time the production threatens to impress it undoes its good work with a ham-fisted joke or a bludgeoning lyric. Lloyd Webber and Rice's new songs only serve to underscore exactly what the audience has already been told. Reprimanded by Aunty Em and Uncle Henry in the busy opening scene, Dorothy sings "Nobody Understands Me" just to hammer home the point. Nor does the production truly seem to believe in its sugary insistence that one's heart's desire resides in one's own backyard; it says the words but doesn't seem to mean them.
Toto, the terrier, is on stage for much of the production, and he often looks entirely nonplussed by what's happening around him. At times, it's hard not to sympathize."
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