THERE'S VISUAL PLEASURE APLENTY!
"helmer-choreographer Steve Josephson sculpts an attractive troupe of dancers -- equally at home with ballet, Fosse sizzle and hip-hop -- into Mr. Marionette's inventory for our central couple's Christmas shopping pleasure... Hoke's ravishing principal waltz, and explorations with more modern styles, mesh nicely with Bradbury's naively charming lyrics. Sometimes the author gets off a wryly cynical snap, as in a reference to one sign of Christmas approaching as "pumpkin heads rotting on the porch."