The Rink

“Serious, innovative... provides much pleasure.” – New York Post

“Mr. Kander's melodies, orchestrated with panache by Michael Gibson... linger in the ear.” – The New York Times

“It's layered tender and deft. Really, it's a study in nostalgia – its comforts as well as its traps. Kander and Ebb make the point musically, as contemporary sounds slide into something tunefully old-hat – the Rat Pack rapport of ‘The Apple Doesn't Fall’ and the saccharine sentiment of ‘Marry Me.’” – WhatsOnStage

“There’s a sharply drawn emotional realism to this mother-daughter relationship which is rarely seen in musical theatre... McNally’s clear-eyed, sentimentality-free story makes a case for laying waste to the past, and for leaving old pain trapped under the rubble.” – Exeunt Magazine

“The show-biz ego—stark, aggressive, manipulative, wheedling, insatiable—has found no more assiduous celebrators than the songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb. They have composed dozens of brassy ballads for gutsy ladies staking out their parcel of asphalt turf. No raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens for these guys.” – Time