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Those who turned 10 before that date were “too old for something so cloying and cute,” said Barney.

Fortunately, there is also enough good-natured goofball humor to keep Gordon Greenberg’s production from sinking into cloying goo.

Before we get into what the Rabbit Hole is, here’s what it isn’t: a place with touch screens, a ball pit, inscrutable plaques, velvet ropes, a cloying soundtrack or adults in costumes.

In contrast, the Neue’s exhibition contains just six late landscapes, and not always the best, since half of them center on vine-covered forest cottages and lakeside villas and can be cloying.

But the 95-minute score is so blandly cloying, the rhymed-couplets text so stiff and the characters so cardboard, that not a moment ends up surprising or moving.