The reviews of the new production of The Music Man should remind us of the perils of thinking any one review is the final word on whatever is being reviewed. They're all over the place ranging from headlines that say "Hugh Jackman's revival is a huge let-down" (here) to "Hugh Jackman Shines in Smashing Broadway Revival (here). And these reviewers may have been sitting only seats apart at the same performance.
This is something I had to explain to my father when I began writing for television. He'd read one bad review of something I worked on and if it was bad…well, that was that. The show was a disaster…never mind that others liked it. For him, ten positive reviews did not cancel out one negative and saying, "It's just one guy's opinion" didn't shake his feeling that the show was a career-killing disaster. There was this feeling that if the opinion was in a newspaper or magazine, it couldn't possibly be wrong. He certainly didn't feel that way about political opinions in some of those same outlets. But he did about entertainment product.
I suspect this production of The Music Man is pretty much critic-proof and there will not be a lot of empty seats at the Winter Garden Theatre as long as Hugh and Sutton are up there singing about trombones and White Knights. Reading the wide range of notices, it's interesting how to some, "old-fashioned" is a bad thing and to others, it's a plus. And what did the ones who don't like "old-fashioned" think they were going to see at a revival of a 1957 musical set in 1912? A lot of folks in their profession faulted the recent revival of Oklahoma! for not being old-fashioned enough.
If I were back there or traveling, the only thing that might keep me away from it would be the cost of getting good seats. Critics usually don't comment on that, perhaps because they all get in for free. But an awful lot of them were in agreement about that.