The Little Mermaid, a musical by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Starring Sierra Boggess, Sean Palmer and Sherie Rene Scott. Directed by Francesca Zambello. We went to a mid-week performance of "The Little Mermaid" as a special trip down nostalgia lane. The animated film was the first we'd taken our little girl to and now it was her 21st birthday! And while "The Little Mermaid" is alas, not another smash like "The Lion King" it's a very enjoyable show and we felt it has the best new score of any current Broadway Show including "Curtains." And the good news is that Menken has evidently found a good lyricist to work with again, Glenn Slater. What other new Broadway musical has a standard as good as "She's In Love"? There is a ravishingly beautiful new duet which turns into a quartet, "If Only." And again, "if only" there were other composers capable of such lyricism today! Undeniably, the score is disjointed, it doesn't flow as an integrated whole which reveals the patchwork nature of adding new songs with a new lyricist to songs written earlier with the incomparable Howard Ashman who died so tragically young in the first awful wave of AIDS losses. Another problem with the show is that it is too static and has a kitschy look to it, despite the sumptuous sets and costumes. Nonetheless, this is a solid family entertainment and in our opinion, is every bit as good as "Wicked" and with much better music. And the performances from the two leading ladies, the gorgeous dewy beauty Sierra Boggess as Ariel and Sherie Rene Scott as Ursula are sensational and hopefully will get rewards recognition in spite of the snobbish cultural prejudice against all things Disney. Broadway Bridge and Tunnel Test Grade B-.