"CurtainUp" called the musical a "gorgeously staged and musically sophisticated adaptation... the Guettel sound is nevertheless plush and enjoyable with a genuine musical theater sensibility... Lucas has made room for the young lovers' voices and retained enough of the psychological complexities to prevent this from being the dated soap opera it could easily have been." Michael Feingold, in his review for the "Village Voice", commented: "It has some considerable shortcomings...but its main distinction is that its humanity separates it from the bulk of current musical theater."