The English version of the musical received positive reviews. The "New York Daily News" wrote, "This stage musical smartly excises comic relief from the film’s giggling gargoyles...The look of the show is also very good. Alexander Dodge’s lavish bell-tower, Alejo Vietti’s gritty period costumes and Howell Binkley’s dynamic lights lend to the atmosphere." "The New York Times" deemed it a "surprising self-serious...polished but ponderous musical" with a "simultaneously impressive and oppressive" stage and "rich choral singing." "The Hollywood Reporter" said "Menken's uncommonly complex, classically-influenced score often soars." AM New York called the musical "an unusually dark and chilling piece of musical theater which explores physical deformity, religious extremism, sexual repression and even genocide."