In retrospect, I think we all wish that all those lovers had stopped all that fighting, and simply done the right thing: ask me.
Entertainment Weekly critic Adam Markovitz opined that "All the Lovers" was not a "full-on dance track production-wise," but predicted the song would attain "near-ubiquity in gyms, gay clubs, and clothing stores".
Can we agree that, for all lovers who want their love to last, marriage is preferable to cohabitation?
And upon all that are lovers of virtue; and dare trust in his providence; and be quiet; and go a Angling".
The Associated Press's Jennifer Farrar says: "From the first thunderclap to the final soliloquy, this "Tempest" is a triumph that will please all lovers of Shakespeare and good theater".
In "Loveland," the splashy production number in which sauntering, beaming Follies girls explain the happy associations behind each letter of the title ("L is for the long, long road ahead that leads all lovers to the landscape of their dreams; O is for the overwhelming optimism that only lovers know, or so it seems"), Mr. Sondheim has added new lyrics in which that qualified euphoria turns sour.
For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May.
Where once it seemed true that all the world's lovers of "long country walks" would gather en masse in the dating classifieds, now our young and benevolent have Tinder.
But Cromwell, who has spies everywhere, knows about Anne's "nimble" lovers, and that all the "old families" in England are waiting to throw their daughters at the king when no male heir is forthcoming and he disposes of her.
