Daily Herald - Somewhat Recommended

"...The largely professional cast gives solid performances, particularly Mary Mulligan as Penny, the pushy fiance to radiologist Terry and Paul Perroni as librarian Terry's aggressive and brutish boyfriend, Paul. Unfortunately, the whole cast is clearly hampered by the script. Director Suzanne Avery-Thompson's glacial pacing for the scenes doesn't help, nor do the lengthy scene changes to Kevin Doler's ambitious but sometimes tatty-looking set."
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Time Out Chicago - Somewhat Recommended

"...Avery-Thompson’s direction employs a farce-killing lack of speed, while the actors, like the playwright, work so hard for laughs—mugging, shouting, double-taking—that we almost feel bad the laughs aren’t coming."
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Chicago Reader - Somewhat Recommended

"... Dan Rodden brings genial charm to the male lead, a befuddled radiologist, and some isolated bits inspire chuckles. But overall the enterprise feels like a New Year's party that none of the guests really want to attend."

NewCity Chicago - Highly Recommended

"..., the show has a pleasant nostalgiac feel to it that should be particularly warm and fuzzy for Baby Boomers and older, or for those who want to experience a more-friendly era. Opelka has a wonderful witty and comic touch and the show is overflowing with heart and romance, perhaps too much for some. The ensemble cast is first-rate and are a likable bunch to ring in a New Year with, even if this is an old New Year."

Windy City Times - Highly Recommended

"...Next to locked-room mysteries, screwball farce is probably the most difficult genre for writers to pull off, its airy ambience and inexorable logic demanding unrelenting attention to detail with never a squint betraying the industry expended on its architecture. Fortunately, Gregg Opelka’s extensive experience as a composer has accustomed him to tracking several melodies progressing in simultaneous counterpoint, and so we can almost hear intricate tocatta-and-fugue harmonies marking cadence under the escalating confusion as characters stumble ever more deeply into madcap misapprehension."
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Chicago Free Press - Somewhat Recommended

"... At an indulgent 160 minutes, it takes too long to pull off its New Year’s Eve matchmaking. The characters spend too much time trying to explain away the coincidences that connect them, which only makes them seem all the more contrived. When spontaneity gets spelled out, it becomes self-conscious and every twist seems oddly premeditated. This comedy would be 10 times more charming if it were a third shorter."
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BroadwayWorld - Highly Recommended

"...the show and this production are really clever and fun, a great winter escape for those who like their comedies, and their New Year's Eves, to be unexpectedly rich and intimate and exasperating and rewarding. If you like your farces to build slowly and steadily, so that you have time to ponder the awful next stage of the game before it deliciously unfolds, you will also find this play a delightful way to pass a cold evening."

ChicagoCritic - Highly Recommended

"...Gregg Opelka offers a funny nostalgic romantic comedy that captivates. Dan Rodden and Ana Sferruzza are terrific as the Terrys. The ensemble performances add much humor. It is refreshing to laugh at the foibles of nice folks. Gregg Opelka can add successful playwright to his impressive theatre credits."
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