"The season’s New Year’s Eve offering at the Met, a new Merry Widow production by Tony-winning director/choreographer Susan Stroman, was presented in an English version custom-fit for the company by Jeremy Sams. The Stroman staging took a resolutely romantic and traditional approach to the operetta, with lavish costumes by William Ivey Long, glittering lighting by Paule Constable and a trio of pretty sets by Julian Crouch. "