Wednesday, April 23, 2025
The Netflix series, at its best, delivers a gritty film noir quality to this supernatural tale. What’s on stage at the Marquis resembles a jukebox musical comedy with lots of shock effects…
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Floyd Collins is a gripping and powerful musical based on the true story of a cave explorer in Kentucky, 1925. While chasing a dream of fame and fortune by turning Sand Cave into a tourist a…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:32PMYet one of the wonders of the show’s glorious-sounding new production, which opened on Monday night at the Vivian Beaumont Theater with a thoroughly winning Jeremy Jordan in the title role…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:32PM“Floyd Collins” is somber, unique and sprinkled with tender moments. It’s a fine production with a gem of a lead actor, but the show is desperate for a raison d’etre. The musical rin…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:31PM[Trensch] and Jordan (and that opening sequence) are worth the price of admission, as are Ted Sperling’s music direction and Bruce Coughlin’s orchestrations. Floyd Collins is an odd piec…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:30PMSumptuously desolate yet charged with enough emotion to reach the heavens, Landau’s crystal-clear revival allows us to see the show for what it truly is: an elegy for a carefree way of lif…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:30PMFor a show with such a potentially powerful symbol at its core — a man trapped in the rock, singing as he’s crushed by America — Floyd Collins leaves far too soft an impression. It nev…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:30PMDespite some scattered strong elements, it’s hard to totally make sense of “Floyd Collins” or feel that it really works as a whole… There may be treasure hidden deep in the cave that…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:29PMGuettel’s songwriting here repeatedly recalls the sweeping chromatic music flecked with tantalizing dissonances that distinguishes “Piazza” and, later, “Days of Wine and Roses.” An…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:29PMWith Guettel’s often sublime score and lyrics that get at the terror, cynicism and, most of all, undying hope against hope well captured in Landau’s book, Floyd Collins might haunt some …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:29PMIf you’re already a fan of Floyd Collins’s score, you are likely to enjoy this eminently respectable performance of it, and maybe even respond to it emotionally. If not, though—if, lik…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:29PMTuesday, April 15, 2025
At a high school in a rural town in Georgia, an English class is studying The Crucible, but the students are more preoccupied with navigating young love, sex ed, and a few school scandals. A…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 02:45AMTaymor’s production is entirely sympathetic — to the characters and to the text. Though thrilling in its refusal to tamp down the show’s sometimes anarchic spirit, it does not ignore t…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 02:44AM“John Proctor” executes sleight of hand very well — it begs us to reconsider the stories, events and people we’re told to trust. And Belflower gives this ensemble of actors wells of …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 02:43AMThere’s a moment in the play featuring a song by Lorde that elicited in me a dizzy gasp, then an eye-roll, then gave way to a moment of catharsis. In one gesture, it brilliantly tied up th…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 02:42AMSink shines in using her physicality here. With more room for her and the other actors to play and relax, there’s potential for this production to be even better. But despite its shortcomi…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 02:42AM“John Proctor Is the Villain” is the best play of the season, but even more significantly, it is a feminist masterpiece sure to become one of the defining works of art from and about the…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 02:41AMForget the villain — Belflower’s play hits as hard as it does because at its heart, fighting their way through one hell of a junior year, are the kind of heroes we actually need.
The pos…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 02:41AMBut although themes and incidents from The Crucible reverberate throughout this work, you don’t need to be an expert on Miller’s drama to appreciate this one. Belflower’s first Broadwa…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 02:41AMAnd as events unfold that could break a small town apart and almost certainly make national news, the characters stick to a sit-com style. That’s the play that Belflower wanted to write, a…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 02:41AMIt’s a testament to the subtle brilliance of Kimberly Belflower’s writing and Danya Tamor’s direction that you can hardly feel the 105-minute, no-intermission runtime of John Proctor I…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 02:41AMCombined, John Proctor Is the Villain not only serves as a modern day recontextualization of the original play, but also a laugh-out-loud funny and deeply affecting examination of girlhood, …
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:39PM“Smash,” which opened on Thursday at the Imperial Theater, is more of a who’ll-do-it, and when the big song comes, it’s a killer. But the effect is the same: It’s the great musical…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:38PM“Smash” sells the promise of slap-happy Broadway™, but don’t be fooled: Elice and Martin have salted the whole thing with disdain. Contempt is what they must have for actors, writers…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:36PMThe sharpness of the production’s cynicism shines through, assisted by the strength of the musical numbers and the all-around stellar performances, which imbue a palpable love of the form …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:35PMHurder shines as a triple-threat of perfect comic timing, stunning vocals, and athletic dance. She expertly maintains vocal stability whether giving high-kicks or being whisked off mid-air b…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:35PMFor those fans dying for more “Smash” content, this musical will absolutely scratch that (more than seven-year) itch; for those uninitiated, this production offers a high-energy, fun mus…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:35PMI’m a sucker for a self-referential theatrical tale. Give me an All That Jazz or a 42ndStreet and I’m happy. But in the version of Smash that made it to the stage, the magic flickers out…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:35PMWith its transition to the stage, Smash finally realizes its full potential as a hilarious, pointed satire that both skewers and celebrates the Great White Way.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:35PMIt’s hard to judge whose decisions are more misguided: those of the back-stabbing, wacky creators of “Bombshell,” the fictional musical comedy about Marilyn Monroe we see implode, or t…
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