Rolling Stone (p.76) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Sheik recasts the shades of Reed, Nick Drake and Talk Talk from his own solo albums into beguiling chamber pop..."
Entertainment Weekly (p.81) - "[T]he most gorgeous (and occasionally rocking-out) Great White Way score this decade." -- Grade: A
Composer: Duncan Sheik.
Lyricist: Steven Sater.
There's an understandably cynical atmosphere to this updated musical version of the German playwright Franz Wedekind's controversial late-19th-century play about adolescent sexuality and its repression by a strict society. But songs like "Totally Fucked" and "Bitch of Living" energize their pessimism with hormone-fueled abandon, and an intriguingly sophisticated presentation courtesy of a score by the musician Duncan Sheik and the lyricist Steven Sater.