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Tom Donnelly of the New York World-Telegram & Sun thought that the production had not retained the spirit of the comic strip, stating, " Those aren't real Dogpatch people stompin ' and whompin ' and cavortin ' across that stage.
He also thought that too much of the libretto was spent explaining the Dogpatch milieu, which Donnelly assumed would be familiar to most audience members since Li ' l Abner was at that time a very popular comic strip.
Conversely, John McClain of the New York Journal American thought the show would have been incomprehensible to anyone not already familiar with the comic strip.
McClain also thought the show's political satire was of " questionable taste ", asserting, " it's poor timing to feature a song about ' The Country's in the Very Best of Hands ', which attempts to show it isn't, and to haul out and shove all over the stage that dreary caricature of a relentless millionaire ".
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