"Talented, unhistrionic, flesh-and-blood human being"

We do, however, get some inventive and inspiriting choreography by Michael Kidd, which probably improves on the original; and in Meg Bussert we have a talented, unhistrionic, flesh-and-blood human being. Her Marian is both an actress who delivers a scene or a song and a believable librarian whom might actually dispense books—she could certainly hand me mine.
— John Simon