“[The] impressively staged battle sequence looks like a scene from Cold Mountain... events take on a lovely music-video quality, and [the show] uses slow motion and even a kind of scenic crossfading like a master.”

“And Schmidt stages the numbers with a lovely simplicity, embellished with expressive gestural choreography by Jeff and Rick Kuperman. This is especially effective in an early scene at Ragueneau’s, in which a window opens in the set by Christine Jones and Amy Rubin — aptly dominated by a wall etched all over with cursive script — showing the graceful movements of the bakers as Cyrano bares his poetic soul.”

“The production boasts an effective traditional-yet-modern feel, with a handsome minimalist set design by Christine Jones and Amy Rubin; dreamlike and ritualistic movement by Jeff and Rick Kuperman (who also supplied one of the more memorable elements of “Alice by Heart”)...”

“Schmidt (who both adapts and directs) manifests Cyrano’s poetic worldview in stage pictures that look like Baroque paintings... a cutout window elegantly frames Jeff and Rick Kuperman’s dreamlike choreography for the bakers at the shop where Cyrano and Roxanne have arranged a meeting (Waitress has some competition when it comes to dexterity with a wisp of flour).”

“Cyrano [is] eye-catchingly choreographed by Jeff and Rick Kuperman...”

“The director-choreographer brothers creatively play with time and space, best exemplified when Cyrano, Christian and De Guiche find themselves on the front lines of the siege at Arras... the atrocities come to life through haunting, suspended imagery — reminding us that the ravages of conflict linger long after the dust settles on the battlefield.”