“A radically and beautifully imaginative example of the form”

In the age of Disney and Spiderman, “Little Dancer” is a musical that’s about something—in fact, several things — that matter. The musical, a radically and beautifully imaginative example of the form, tells the tale of a gritty, one-step-from-the-gutter aspiring ballerina in the La Belle Epoch Paris Opera Company who inspired Impressionist painter and sculptor Eduard [Edgar] Degas to create one of his most enduring works, the sculpture “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen”.

The Wall Street Journal