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February 7, 2009 updates:

New York Times

Inside the Big, Bad City, Temptations by the Score
“Music in the Air” is one of those gently witty parodies of a quaint art form that wind up seeming quainter than the real thing.

New York Daily News

"Music in the Air" is a fun listen
A few beautiful ballads, exquisitely sung, and two glittery star turns, don’t exactly add up to a top-tier musical. But they go a long way toward making “Music in the Air” an entertaining relic.

New York Post

Unfunny comedy of airs
There's plenty of "Music in the Air" at the Encores! production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's 1932 musical - but not a whole lot of fun. This antiquated musical - in which its creators simultaneously mocked and indulged in the operetta conventions of its day - will be of far more interest to die-hard musical-theater...

Bloomberg.com

Divas Chenoweth, Boggess Make Jerome Kern's Silly `Music' Sing: John Simon
“Music in the Air,” opening this season’s laudable Encores! Series at Manhattan’s City Center, boasts three stars of the first magnitude: Douglas Sills, aka Scarlet Pimpernel; Sierra Boggess, aka Little Mermaid; and Kristin Chenoweth ... well, always gloriously Chenoweth, the Name Above the Title.

BroadwayWorld

* Broadway Blogs - Music In The Air: The Lullaby of Munich and More...

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Associated Press

Chenoweth and Sills Jump-Start 'Music in the Air'
It takes the comic-operetta canoodling of Kristin Chenoweth and Douglas Sills to jump-start the tasteful yet sedate concert version of ''Music in the Air.''.

Variety

Review: Music in the Air
...Lovers of operetta and musical theater history will find the Encores! revival rewarding, but others should be advised this is not another "Show Boat."

Back Stage

Music in the Air (in Concert) reviewed by David Sheward
Thank God for Kristin Chenoweth and Douglas Sills. Without them, the Encores! concert version of Music in the Air, would be a soggy slice of strudel.

amNY New York City Theater

Theater Review of Music in the Air
Have you noticed how the City Center Encores! seasons now following a standard formula of sandwiching one total rarity of a musical inside two more well-known entities? Consider the following: ...

TheaterMania

Review: Music in the Air
Kristin Chenoweth and Douglas Sills give inspired performances in this loving and lovely version of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's old-fashioned musical.

Talkin' Broadway

Review: Music in the Air
When people think of operetta, Music in the Air is the kind of show that fills their imaginations. Not coincidentally, it’s because of shows like Music in the Air that no one thinks about operetta much anymore. The new City Center Encores! production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s 1932 velvet-voiced romp from the German countryside to the big city which is playing through Sunday, is less a rediscovery of a long-lost treasure than a robust reminder of why it disappeared in the first place. .