Please. Imagine your favorite composer/songwriter, say, for instance, it's Tchaikovsky. Then imagine listening to his first piano concerto and enjoying it. Then, later, you hear concerto #3, close your eyes in the middle, and think "what a rip-off! This sounds like a blasted Tchaikovsky piano concerto!"

Composers have a style -- somehow it's fashionable to blast any modern composer as "deriviate" if said composer's work has anything in common with itself. It's bizarre to expect composers to be astylistic.

On reviews of The Pirate Queen in general... Current audiences seem to go to musicals for a few laughs and fun entertainment. We have lost a profound sense of music appreciation in this country -- a serious music-al based on interesting music doesn't go over well with audiences who fundamentally enjoy spoken-word theater and play music as background noise to accompany everyday life. Good music, and by inclusion quality musical theatre, demands active listening and an aesthetic sense that is increasingly hard to find in our entertainment-oriented Hollywood culture.

I've yet to see a review of this music-al that intelligently discusses the music.