"Tale as old as time - but clearly with half an eye on the Instagram age ... Lyricist David Zippel and book writer Emerald Fennell clearly conspire to give the familiar fable a 21st-century twist or two and Lloyd Webber even has an Instagram influencer - Carrie Hope Fletcher - in the title-role ... What strike me quite forcibly about the score is that it plays like a cavalcade of Lloyd Webber styles through the ages and its somewhat quaint brand of rock/pop is not of its target audience's time but his. The hooks are super-catchy, and ... as ever with Lloyd Webber, the ballads shine ... The real corker is Prince Sebastian's 'Only you, lonely you', which is up there with the very best Lloyd Webber has given us".
