“Evan Buliung is superb as Sky, restlessly prowling every room in which he finds himself, as if searching for the limits of his own impregnability.
Then there is Steve Ross, perfect as Nicely-Nicely Johnson, the most amiably rotund of gamblers, due to the fact that he is perpetually eating. If his “Sit Down You’re Rockin’ the Boat” does not raise the roof as it is accustomed to do, that may be because it has a whole succession of hard acts to follow.
One of them is the show’s title song, which Nicely and his pal Benny Southstreet, played by the contrastingly gaunt-framed and scissor-legged Mark Uhre, perform with such verve you may wish it will go on forever.”