Play It Cool, A New Jazz Musical: praise

PLAY IT COOL is a damned good show. Its score deserves a recording and the show itself deserves greater exposure.
Broadway World

I haven’t heard such enthusiastic and prolonged applause after songs and scenes at any NYMF or FringeNYC show this year. The people loved the show, as did I... it’s no secret that "Play It Cool" plays it right and, for a musical, evokes a rare combo of reactions: applause and thought!
Edge

Play It Cool has a great story and great star power behind it and a jazzy score that will have you bopping in your seat.
NY Theatre.com

Play It Cool works wonders musically.
Theater Mania

Play It Cool, a slickly entertaining entry in the New York Musical Theatre Festival...
Backstage

An accomplished, kaleidoscopic songbook. Tart, tuneful and trenchant in unexpected ways. “Play It Cool” generates sizzling heat, and not just for Blue Note devotees.
Los Angeles Times Critic’s Choice

A scintillating jazz musical! The amalgam of swinging jazz ditties, comic numbers and torch songs results in a superb score, brought to shimmering life . . . a first rate cast of actor-singers.
Backstage West Critic’s Pick

We get solid jazz from five fine actor-singers who deliver lyricist Mark Winkler’s music in a delightful evening.
LA Weekly, Go (Critic’s Pick)

A jazz-tinged tuner rich in noir-esque ambiance. . . . In an impressively staged opening musical collage, helmer Sharon Rosen and choreographer Marvin Tunney successfully inbue the work with a shadowy film noir-atmosphere.
Variety

I very much enjoyed the CD's group of well-written, well-sung songs celebrating jazz music and indicating a story. . . . It may have "cool" in the title, and appropriately so, but some of the music is hot and sizzling."
Talking Broadway.com Top Ten Cast Recording of 2006