Critical Reaction

"A heartwarming look at what love and life are all about. ...The music is darling, and the presentation is just delightful."
– GoUpstate.com

"Riverwind still boasts one of the best scores of the 1960s. ...All six characters were interesting and the songs were much more than that."
– Off-Broadway Musicals Since 1919

"The score of Riverwind is one of the best written for 1960s musical theatre, on Broadway or off... the 'Wishing Song' quartet [is] one of the most exquisite numbers ever heard on the musical stage. The 'Wishing Song' is a model of an intelligent, character-driven lyric matched to haunting, enchanting music."
– Off Broadway Musicals, 1910-2007

"The Riverwind score is a delight, its catchiest item a showstopping advice song for mother and daughter called 'Sew the Buttons On.'"
– Broadway.com

"A sheaf of uncommonly attractive musical numbers... it is not often that an off-Broadway musical is blessed with such agreeable tunes and lyrics."
– The New York Times

"It is the songs that make Riverwind so very special. Best of the lot are a lively, bouncing waltz, 'Pardon Me While I Dance;' an astoundingly good quartet called 'Wishing Song,' which is something like South Pacific's 'Twin Soliloquies' times two; and another wonderful waltz duet, 'Sew the Buttons On,' which sweeps along in the best Richard Rodgers manner (a la 'Lover' or 'The Most Beautiful Girl in the World')."
– Playbill.com

"There is much in the musical that is attractive and entertaining. ...Mr. Jennings brings a sophistication of insight which, although cast in homely terms, is quite out of the ordinary on our musical stage. His lyrics are bright and alive and his music... is pretty and full of charm."
– The Village Voice