"Some of the music has a rollicking energy, and it often soars toward showstopping bravura."
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"When it came to the finale, Giulia seamlessly stuck a landing that had everyone on my night on their feet, cheering for more."
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"Giulia is a grand, gothic, and often incoherent but deeply felt passion project from someone new to the world of writing musical theater who, in her first outing in the form, has thrown together a brew of every trope that interests her at once."
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"Giulia is essentially a feminist Sweeney Todd, set in a world where men are drunks, wife-beaters, and serial philanderers, and the only escape from an unhappy marriage is manslaughter because the Church forbids divorce."
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"Nettles wins points for trying to create an original musical rather than recycling numbers associated with her duo Sugarland or her solo career. But the show's clanky structure and single-minded insistence on uplift, whitewashing her heroine's crimes, make it a bit of a bore."
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"This world premiere production is as polished and almost ready for a Broadway transfer as any off-Broadway musical could be."
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"There is much to love, and much to cheer for… One more polish, and I'd cheer to see it on Broadway."
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An exuberant musical about a 17th century female Italian apothecary who poisons abusive husbands.
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