AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews — Page 17

I saw this last night with ColorTheHours048 and agree that this is an entertaining mess. The production is slick and consistently surprising, full of interesting and weird visuals. I was glad to hear that there were a great deal of lyrical changes from what was on the London cast album- but the lyrics are still not great, nor is the score, and regardless of the decision to blast "Selling Out" as the audience exits, most people will end up only walk out whistling "Don't You Want Me" or "Everybody Wants to Rule the World."

The production skews toward camp, with its highly stylized scenes and production numbers of mass carnage, with really only few moments of genuine tension. The book often falls back on cheap 80s jokes or campy irony, and genuinely doesn't really hold up in the second half, where it has many weak adaptational choices (having Bateman leave his confessional message to the detective is strange). 

Walker, fortunately, has a superhuman ability to carry a show. He's sexy, charismatic, and exudes such star quality-  were it not for him and the slick production, this thing wouldn't be able to keep the plates all spinning. 

Helene York wrings every laugh she can out of Evelyn, mostly through off-kilter line readings (her pronunciation of "Patrick" alone gets laughs), and Jennifer Damiano impresses in a bland, mousey role. The male ensemble is stunningly gorgeous and get to show it off- a lot. It's a production with remarkably gay sensibility, really. 

I'm glad I saw it and I had a good time. I can't say it's a good musical. 

I'm seeing American Psycho mid-May and haven't looked this forward to a show in a while. Not only because I've enjoyed the press performance clips I've seen, but because every opinion on the show seems to be different! 

I ALSO saw this last night (we should have had a meet and greet) and enjoyed it - oddly.  Agree with everyone that Act 1 is the stronger act by far.  I actually loved Skeik's songs and the classics and how they intertwined quite well.  It is truly dark comedy - but I found myself laughing way more than I thought I would.

Walker is excellent as Patrick, and even is nuanced when over-the-top.  Kudos also to Yorke and Weed, who were fabulous.  Damiano was fine in the role, but there were times...I don't know. Her voice is gorgeous.   I'll also go with Alice Ripley being miscast - she just isn't that good in the role and quite frankly her vocals are jarring against the rest of the cast.

Visually the show is stunning.  It does seem they cut some time - we were out well before 11.  I do wich Act 2 had just a little more of the energy of the first act

 

All in all, I had a good time, and will be back to see it again.

Updated On: 4/6/16 at 03:10 PM

Just back from seeing this tonight, and I thought it was absolutely thrilling.

I have no idea of this would work at all with a different director at the helm, but Rupert Goold's vision here is just extraordinary. The staging is genius, and the production elements are all truly stunning, and the cast is uniformly terrific,  with of course a special shout out to Ben Walker who is fabulous.

I would say the second act could still perhaps use a little trimming as it winds to a close  (and I would suggest the second Patrick and Jean scene after her visit to his apartment) but I was happily willing to buy all the rest.

 

What a fabulous season this has been. And I think it is so exciting that a musical as risky as this can find a place on Broadway. The show was almost sold out tonight, and while I'm sure will remain divisive, it's absolutely one of my highlights of the year. 

Dramamama-  the entire show is heavily eroticized with several simulated sex sequences. It's all completely stylized, and non realistic and and there is no nudity in the production. But there are certainly a lot of (gorgeous) half naked bodies and "suggestions" of threesomes, gay sex, fetish sex, etc.  The projections are highly stylized as well. 

The show is basically one big sensory overload orgasm. But abstract, over the top, and completely theatrical. I I loved it.

 

Can Benjamin Walker get any hotter?

Just out of curiosity, has Benjamin Walker been signing any Playbills at the stage door?

I once met him at his ''Find the Funny'' comedy show at the Public, and he was quite friendly.

 

uncageg said: "But no blood in the pics. This is the problem I have with this show.  They are touting blood but you really only get tbe blood in one sceme amd then bloody clothing."

 

Yeah, they really need to synchronize the actual show with BWW headlines more...

Why did the show hire someone with the photography skills of a high school student to take the photos? Goddamn. Those photos are AWFUL. They do not accurately represent the show at all. Where's Joan Marcus when you need her?

Nope! I wish. Man, that'd be cool.

I'm glad you like them because I think they make the show look very small and they're kind of grainy and awful quality. They would not have encouraged me to see the show. 

Oops.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadways-AMERICAN-PSYCHO-Needs-a-Blood-Splash-Zone-20160408

I mean Andrew Rannels spit on me in hedwig and you didn't see me crying about it. 

Granted, I saw this from the mezz, but... I am rather confused as to how blood could have possibly gotten on anyone in the audience. From "Killing Spree"?