"Dan Pardo, the music director, led the excellent five-piece pit band at the rear of the stage."

"Transitions into song are elegant, and every word is spoken with the emotional freedom of music. The score by Jeanine Tesori quotes Motown and Chopin but chiefly moves energetically between plaintive and joyous."

"Director Malcolm Ewen, with excellent assist from Music Director Dan Pardo, brings life and pace to this short chamber piece. They have honed this fine cast into a perfect ensemble that presents us with a vibrant, rhythmic evening of musical pastiche and a courageous story  tempered by  irony and tenderness."

"Role for role, this is the best-sung "Company" I’ve ever heard—not just in regional theater, but anywhere. Dan Pardo, the music director, doubtless deserves a big slice of credit for the quality of both the singing and the playing of the nine-piece orchestra."

​"Mr. Sondheim’s score remains thrillingly incisive, dramatizing every issue in its path. Problems of interpretation tend to dissolve when the songs are sung and played as well as they are here."

"The orchestra, only nine strong, led by Dan Pardo, honors Sondheim’s musicality with strength and depth."

"Indeed, the entire production, backed by Dan Pardo’s super pit orchestra, works splendidly in the nooks and crannies of Sondheim’s musical and literary imagination."

"The expert music direction and conducting, of the nine-member pit orchestra, is by Dan Pardo"

"...the music is lovingly resuscitated. And the music is the point. Harmonizing beautifully under the musical direction of Dan Pardo, they perform fondly remembered classics, with reprises of the Bikinis’ “hits,” appropriately ’60s-style ditties written by Mr. Roderick and Joseph Baker."

"Credit musical director-keyboardist Dan Pardo for muting his band sufficiently [enough] to keep the voices paramount without burying the musicians’ skillful playing. One actually hears and understands lyrics so elusive in their original recordings."

"What sets 'The Bikinis' apart from other jukebox nostalgia shows is the range of the music being remembered, some clever vocal and instrumental arrangements, and — wonder of wonders — half a dozen original songs. These new tunes by Ray Roderick and Joseph Baker are clever pop pastiches that fit snugly alongside the dozens of familiar Top 40 hits from the '60s and early '70s."

"The musical score by Frank Loesser, conducted by Dan Pardo with new orchestrations by Bruce Monroe,
gives the satire its spirit and sass"

"A powerhouse ensemble is light and comically charged on their feet in the several big production numbers.
​Musical direction by Dan Pardo is big, old-school Broadway brassy"