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He takes care with place-setting, utilizing contemporary country tunes and a winsome lens on good old Americana.

Eden is a complicated mix of independence — she runs her own seemingly thriving business — and winsome but deep-seated neediness.

And, for contrast, we get Rodin’s winsome portrait of Claudel, the lowered gaze of her intensely alert but ethereal head emerging from a hefty block of chiseled white marble.

The young actors are winsome but inexperienced, too often forced to wrangle improbably precocious turns of phrase.

In Gershwin’s original, as well as countless covers, it has a winsome, beautiful lullaby quality.