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Set to a triumphal score by Amelia Warner, there’s a hint of Bruckheimer’s “Pirates of the Caribbean”-style jauntiness to the powerful orchestration that adds to the sense of melodrama at play.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024

Lacking that, the season’s appealing jauntiness takes on a grim weight even as it asks us to ponder what we owe to each other.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2023

With an offstage orchestra finding the lyricism and jauntiness in the Caribbean-flavored score, overseen by musical directors Elisa Rosman and Refiye Tappan, this is a worthwhile and joyful rendition of a classic.

From Washington Post • Oct. 24, 2022

This last remark is delivered with a familiar jauntiness, but it is not accompanied by the smile or laughter that used to come so naturally.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 13, 2020

By their lightness of foot and jauntiness of exit, Bull Meecham knew that part of the morale problem in 367 was over.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy