"An impressive celebration."
xxxxxClive Barnes, The New York Times

"In recent yers there have been many special evenings, but none of these was quite as special as the one being held at the Shubert Theatre on March 11."
xxxxxJohn Wilson, The New York Times

"A rousing success."
xxxxxVariety

"It was a night to remember. A glittering and exciting event. It is difficult to pick a high spot when there were so many."
xxxxxRadie Harris

"It could run three years."
xxxxxArthur Bell, The Village Voice

"An evening of Stephen Sondheim is probably the best thing that could happen to a person and this one was even better than that. It made theatrical history and gave people who know genius something to talk about for years to come."
xxxxxRex Reed

"Thank you for treating me like a grown-up in a theatre for one of the few times in my life and for making all the hopes I have sometimes irrationally expressed about musical theatre come a lot closer to realization."
xxxxxAlan Rich, New York Magazine