As I expected, the reviews are absolutely terrible for this train wreck. Boring, trite, banal, and a really bad assault on the senses with its blinding super-bright lights in your face so that you can't even see. It is simply inhumane to shine super-bright lights in people's eyes. So many bad choices, it boggles the mind. I hope I never see another work that uses this so-called "lighting designer" again. Perhaps this show will post a closing notice tomorrow.
http://nypost.com/2014/07/13/off-broadway-manhattan-project-an-atomic-bomb ("stunningly misconceived", "silliness", "blinding lights and deafening bursts of noise...")
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat/d.php?id=2222825 ("the most stultifying theatrical treatment imaginable", "far more boring", "endless strobe effects")
http://1clicknews.com/theater-reviews-james-francos-the-long-shrift-never-seems-to-end-atomic-ends-just-the-way-youd-think-only-worse/ ("Just as bad as the songs ... is the book", "overlong show", "pummeling lighting might induce epileptic seizures in a carrot" )
And look at the total pan it got in the NY Times -
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/theater/atomic-a-musical-about-the-making-of-the-bomb.html?ref=theater&_r=0 ("dramatically diffuse and tonally incoherent", "overstuffed show", "ineffectual", "too late and too little to make this dud detonate")
Updated On: 7/13/14 at 09:54 PM