AMERICAN PSYCHO Reviews — Page 5

New York Post - Positive 

http://nypost.com/2016/04/21/american-psycho-the-musical-chooses-comedy-over-carnage/

^ dude. give it up. 

Eliva1 said: "Everyone made this musical to be best thing since sliced bread. It is not. You made me thing this might even be the best musical ever it is not. Its far far from anything good

 

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A few people have claimed this was a masterpiece.  Some people hated it.  Many were in the middle....don't blame your interpretation on the boards.

 

I liked, I respected ...but I didn't love. 

Updated On: 4/22/16 at 07:54 AM

Yes, the OCC even states on their website that they were created as a reaction to the Drama Critics Circle and how these more obscure critics couldn't get into that "charmed inner circle."

Positive https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-Review-Scorching-Social-Satire-Musical-AMERICAN-PSYCHO-Examines-The-Demon-Banker-of-Wall-Street-20160422

 

in reality to be fair it didn't have a bad night, it got around 9 mixed to positive or positives, yes the Times and Vulture weren't fans but to walk away with that many positives on a show that was always going to be a tough one, I think they have done fine. I think it's enough to get them a best new musical nomination at The Tony Awards.

Updated On: 4/22/16 at 09:59 AM

London was more positive than these 

The show doesn't work at all, except for Benjamin Walker. It is flat and undistinguished. To call this a masterpiece is hilarious. I went because of Duncan Sheik's work on SPRING AWAKENING, and was totally disappointed. And stop beating on Jesse Green, one of the few really good critics working today. 

But hey, other shows have run with lesser reviews, so you never know.

Interesting how different critics saw different things on stage - well, except for Brantley who apparently only saw the well toned bodies (mentioned 4 times in his review).  Fortunately I never listen to reviewers- think most of them are out of touch and irrelevant in today's world. 

Theatre is very personal.

I personally thought it was intriguing and required time to settle in before the impact hit and will go back.

 

 

Positive https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/2016/american-psycho-review/

Speaking of twisting reviews, Did He Like It has the NYT marked as indifferent, when I would say he spat all over that.

Show-Score seems to be a better aggregator of reviews. It reports a critical score of 61% based on critic reviews.

Show-Score.

I think Show-Source is a great website (thanks for posting it Kad).

Interesting to look at how mixed the critical reviews are for almost all the new musicals this season (save Hamilton of course), especially since most believe this has been a very strong year for new shows. Like I said earlier, I don't think we can really look to the reviews as a good gage for how the Tony nominations will go.

AMERICAN PSYCHO: 61 (and still adding reviews)

ALLEGIANCE: 71

BRIGHT STAR: 67

DISASTER: 65

HAMILTON: 94

ON YOUR FEET: 75

SCHOOL OF ROCK: 74

I think I blocked that one out. Thank you Whizzer.  Perhaps in that situation, we CAN look to the reviews as an indication of what I suspect will be zero Tony nominations for the incomparable AMAZING GRACE.