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Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times lauded Michael Kidd's choreography, stating, " If everyone in Li ' l Abner were as talented as Michael Kidd, everything would be as brilliant as the ballets, and probably the world would be gayer, too.

But it is difficult to make a fluent musical romance out of some characters who may have hearts of gold but are not very bright in the upper story ".

Atkinson thought the book of the musical was inferior to the choreography, stating that the book did " not have the lightness, simplicity, and speed of the Dogpatch folks.

... Mr. Kidd has caught the spirit of Dogpatch civilization brilliantly enough to suggest that ballet is a more suitable medium than words for animating Al Capp's cartoon drawings ".