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In 1962 the Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim was employed to write words and music for the Roman romp now revived at the National Theatre.
JULIE MYERSON:
It's very funny. It's a completely enjoyable evening in the theatre. It's slick. I didn't know it at all. It reminded me of how brilliant Sondheim's lyrics are. His rhymes are both obvious and not obvious and they add to the action as well. If I had a slight criticism, I felt the second half was just more of the same, whereas I wanted to feel, although it did resolve things, I didn't care what was being resolved, I felt we were going back for another dollop. Apart from that, it was fantastic.