I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand.
“A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.”
“Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.”