held together by a narrative thread as tenuous as her nonsmoking sanity." Further, the music is "eclectic" and includes "Latin, jazz, rock, there's pure urban noise." Songs "Days" - Charlotte, Company "Robert" - Charlotte "It's A Sign" - Cinder "The Pool (Part 1)" - Charlotte, Company "Lockerroom (Part 1)" "Winter Is Here/The Pool (Part 2)" - Charlotte "Short Story" - Robert, Lifeguards "Perfect" - Kathy "John Paul/Disco" - Charlotte, Kathy "He" - Robert, Men "Cigarette Dream" - Charlotte, Company "Flotsam" - Anne "Lockerroom 2" "I Ran" - Marco "The Track (Part 1)" "Mr. Bunder/By The Way" - Mr. Bunder "Remember Me" - Kathy "Anne" - Young Girl "Little Fish" - Marco "Poor Charlotte" - Cinder "The Track (Part 2)" "Flotsam" Reprise "Simple Creature" - Charlotte "Gallery/Perfect" Reprise "In Two's and Three's" - Charlotte, Company Response Both Daniele and LaChiusa said Charlotte's struggle to quit smoking is "a metaphor for the crises that force people to reconsider who they are and what is important. Mr. LaChiusa said the musical was his oblique response to Sept. 11: 'After that happened, nobody was thinking about how to get rich and famous. You wanted to be around the people you love.' "... LaChiusa went on to add that " 'But after you've been here [New York] a while, you realize that you don't always have to swim upstream and battle the elements. When you're little fish in a big pond, it's safer to swim in schools.' " Ben Brantley, reviewing for the New York Times, wrote: "About halfway into its intermissionless 90 minutes, Little Fish starts to lose its shapely, sharp-edged contours and turn into a sentimental, well, blob...Mr. LaChiusa...and Ms. Daniele has done a swell job of fashioning a lively musical about what it means to feel lifeless in contemporary Manhattan...Like many American musical composers under 50, Mr. LaChiusa is an artistic descendant of Mr. Sondheim, and in many ways, Little Fish can be regarded as a direct, latter-day answer to Company. Certainly, Riccardo Hernández's terraced, silver-toned set, with its evocation of concrete canyons enhanced by Peggy Eisenhauer's shifting lighting, brings to mind Boris Aronson's fabled designs for the original Company. And Mr. LaChiusa's Charlotte, like Mr. Sondheim's Bobby, is a wistful, disengaged soul who is surrounded by people who advise her on how to live....The problem, as the show goes on, is that there's an inevitable monotony to Charlotte's interior life." The