"We... we sleep with everyone.
One by one and two by two.
And if you're in the audience
then you'll sleep too."
~ Forbidden Broadway
"Though ''Aspects of Love'' purports to deal with romance in many naughty guises - from rampant promiscuity to cradle-snatching, lesbianism and incest - it generates about as much heated passion as a visit to the bank."
~ Frank Rich, New York Times
Webber's Aspects of Love is not as romantic as it thinks it is. The May-December country house romance drew unfavorable comparisons to Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music. Sondheim's lovers know they're in a bittersweet comedy. Webber's bores take themselves so seriously that the plot turns to camp. They vow "love will never let you be the same" while repeating the same toxic patterns. The leading lady jerks three lovers around till their attentions turn to an underage girl. Then she sings an angry anthem, "Anything But Lonely," vowing to round up someone new "who'll say how good [she] looks each day." Send in the clowns indeed.
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