The mellow sound of Brandt's score proves to be easy listening, but the individual musical numbers do not build to any dramatic climaxes so that the show seems tamer than material concerning depression and alcoholism suggests it should be. However, the ballad forms and guitar/violin instrumentation are pleasant to the ear. Some of Giles' dialogue which is not part of Aldrin's story seems extraneous and the show takes…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:41PM on August 30, 2018