It's a story that emphasizes the melancholy many experience during the holiday season, and Mr. Sater's book starts well in the get-acquainted scenes but deteriorates as melancholy overwhelms the relationship ... Bacharach, writing his first score for a musical since the 1968 Promises, Promises, emphasizes melancholia as well ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:55AM on December 11, 2011