De fire fagavisenes vurderinger kan leses på

http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=23617

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117935612.html?categoryid=33&cs=1&query=Serenade

http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/12246

og http://www.talkinbroadway.com/ob/cp12_09_07.html

Her er hva New York Times skriver i dagens avis:

A Rube Takes on the City and Falls for a Woman

By NEIL GENZLINGER

Published: December 10, 2007

Jaradoa Theater is off to a promising if not very pithy start with “Serenade,” a new musical that is the company’s first full production. What the show lacks in plotting depth, which is a lot, it makes up for in sheer energy and a fearless mix of musical and choreographic styles.

Here’s the gist: A rube named Thomas comes to the big city (which one is left unspecified, as is the time period), finds his relentless optimism tested at every turn, becomes lovestruck and spends a lot of time trying to locate and win the girl (Anika Larsen). Joshua Henry gives a fine performance as Thomas, though the thin story forces him to freeze his face into a naïve grin for virtually the entire show.

“Serenade,” a more or less sung-through musical, at Teatro La Tea, could get by with the bare-bones plot if there were more nuance in evidence. In this production, though, too many numbers come on like a full-force gale; the drama in the songs doesn’t match Thomas’s rather ordinary meanderings.

That said, the lyrics by Rachel Sheinkin (whose book for “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” won a Tony) are inventive and often sublimely poetic, and Nils Olaf Dolven’s music rocks. It’s a pairing worth watching.

“Serenade” continues through Saturday at Teatro La Tea, 107 Suffolk Street , Lower East Side , (212) 868-4444.

Les selv på http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/theater/reviews/10sere.html og www.jaradoatheater.org