IMPRESSIONS: "Message in a Bottle" at New York City Center with Songs by Sting, Direction & Choreography by Kate Prince
"Sometimes the songs' repurposing works brilliantly, such as when "Don't Stand So Close to Me," originally written about an unseemly relationship between a teacher and pupil, is used to accompany a terrifying scene of male prison guards physically abusing fiercely-fighting-back females. On other occasions, the narrative connections feel uncomfortably forced..." Lisa Jo Sagolla, New York