"Deadline called it'AN ENDORPHIN ASSAULT, INDUCING WARM-BATH PLEASURE LIKE NO OTHER SHOW SINCE 42ND STREET.THE DANCING IS SPECTACULAR, THE SINGING SUBLIME, THE VISUALS ARE INGENIOUS AND, ALMOST INCIDENTALLY, THERE’S THE CATARACT OF IRVING BERLIN SONGS THAT INCLUDES HIS SOLE OSCAR WINNER, “WHITE CHRISTMAS.” 

Charles Isherwood, in his "The New York Times" review of the Broadway production, wrote