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Critics Don’t Love “Love”: “Aspects of Love,” the latest offering by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, was greeted with some scathing reviews following its weekend opening in New York. Richard Hummler of Variety called the show’s tunes “pretty” and the scenery “spectacular,” but concluded that the musical was a “snoozer that will probably snap . . . Lloyd Webber’s hit streak. It’s a grotesquely overproduced treatment of a tiny tale of romantic entanglements that will leave the $55-top payees disappointed if not angry.” Frank Rich of the New York Times said Lloyd Webber’s “usual Puccini-isms have been supplanted by a naked (Stephen) Sondheim envy.” But Clive Barnes of the New York Post called it “a truly engrossing piece of music theater.” “Aspects of Love” has an advance sale of $11 million.