“Director Joshua O’Daniel Denning has done a wonderful job with this sprawling work. It is tremendously entertaining and touching and major kudos must be extended for giving these young performers such juicy material to stretch them. This Fine Arts Academy has tackled a show that few professional companies in this town could even touch. Also, I applaud him for using two pianists, on stage, to recreate the original music by Louis Rosen that was used in the Broadway production. The staging, on the dazzling two story set, designed by Denning and constructed by Technical Director Laura Kieler and her team of students, moves from locale to locale with ease and style. The lighting design by Sarah Kay Stephens is near perfect. The costume designs, by Skel Gracie, were all period perfect.”

“In all, I was greatly amused and moved at all the right moments by this solid production. McCallum Fine Arts Academy may be High School Theatre, but it is not your average High School theatre. McCallum challenges the young artists of today on their journey to becoming the theatre professionals of tomorrow... and Austin is all the richer for this valued institution.”