BBAJ Reviews

[LimelightMike]

Posted: 10/13/10 at 12:03am

Post 'em here!

[CockeyedOptimist2]

Posted: 10/13/10 at 12:10am

Didn't realize it was opening so soon. I saw both it and A Life In the Theatre this weekend not thinking that I was catching them both right before opening. I wonder what kind of reviews it will get. Did it get good reviews at the Public?

[LimelightMike]

Posted: 10/13/10 at 1:17am

Via the show's website, these are some pull quotes from the reviews received during the run at The Pub:

"BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON PUTS THE HORMONES BACK INTO HISTORY! A KNOCKOUT!"
–Rolling Stone

"ROWDY, RAMBUCTIOUS & VERY FUNNY, WITH A PULSATING SCORE!"
–AP

"90 THOROUGHLY AUDACIOUS, POLITICALLY SAVVY, POLITICALLY INCORRECT MINUTES!"
-Newsday

"A ROUSING HISTORICAL SPECTACLE! A SHOW OF AND FOR OUR TIMES!"
–Bloomberg News

"RAUCOUS! An INFECTIOUSLY IRONIC, power chord-driven portrait of our 7th president as guitar hero and heartthrob!"
-Vogue

"FIVE STARS! UNDENIABLE FUN!"
–Time Out NY

"GRADE: A! A MASTERPIECE!"
–Entertainment Weekly

"A BLOODY GOOD SHOW! HILARIOUSLY SATIRICAL. ROCK ON, MR. PRESIDENT!"
–amNY

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/13/10 at 1:33am

Well of course the pull quotes are going to be good. Doesn't necessarily mean the overall reviews were. I don't remember off-hand, I didn't really care, just saying.

[Kad]

Posted: 10/13/10 at 2:12am

It had a B+ on StageGrade, with most of the major reviewers giving it a positive notice. I think the major dissenter was the Village Voice.

[Rentfan931]

Posted: 10/13/10 at 8:13pm

Talkin' Broadway is up:
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/world/index.html

[Katurian2]

Posted: 10/13/10 at 9:43pm

Wow- that Talkin Broadway review is so muddled and poorly written. What is it talking about?? Positive or negative? It spent like half the time talking about how the lead actor physically appeared.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 10/13/10 at 9:56pm

Chicago Tribune

http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/the_theater_loop/2010/10/bloody-bloody-andrew-jackson-theater-review-broadway.html

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/13/10 at 10:04pm

Wow- that Talkin Broadway review is so muddled and poorly written.

It's Matthew Murray!

[broadwayman17]

Posted: 10/13/10 at 10:07pm

Entertainment Weekly- (Shocker) A
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20364394_20433886,00.html?ew%5FpackageID=20364394

[singer73192]

Posted: 10/13/10 at 10:12pm

Just when we thought that the Word of Mouth Panel couldn't get any worse. http://www.broadway.com/shows/bloody-bloody-andrew-jackson/video/153293/word-of-mouth-review-bloody-bloody-andrew-jackson/

"I really like that song about the ten indians that was 20 minutes long. It was hysterical."

[broadwayman17]

Posted: 10/13/10 at 10:15pm

http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/theater/reviews/14bloody.html?ref=theater

[Katurian2]

Posted: 10/13/10 at 10:20pm

Fabulous. Looks like a very positive maybe not-quite rave from the NYT!

[BroadwayBound115]

Posted: 10/13/10 at 10:57pm

I think Brantley liked it. I can't wait to see this show when I come to NYC!!!

[once a month]

Posted: 10/14/10 at 8:39am

A second viewing would be worth every penny...I can't wait. A perfect show for Thanksgiving week...with the Indians and everything!!

[newintown]

Posted: 10/14/10 at 9:37am

So much of what I've read this morning seems to be from people who just want to suckle B Walker's tits (most of all Brantley, who seems to have sent Walker the key to his apartment, and is waiting, tail up).

[americanboy99]

Posted: 10/14/10 at 11:02am

Brantley is very positive. Not an all out rave, but he definitely liked it. Seeing this Saturday. Really looking forward to it!

[Brick]

Posted: 10/14/10 at 12:32pm

"So much of what I've read this morning seems to be from people who just want to suckle B Walker's tits (most of all Brantley, who seems to have sent Walker the key to his apartment, and is waiting, tail up)."

True, and it's as old as the theatre. Remember Hugh Jackman's Tony?

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 10/14/10 at 1:02pm

Interestingly enough, TheaterMania thinks it lost some of its appeal from the Public while the Post seems to think it gained that extra "something" from the move, and gives it ***1/2 out of ****.

http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm?int_news_id=31201&city_dir=broadway

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/theater/bloody_brighter_J6qJDjLRkn6MQmaNverUmL

[wolfwolf]

Posted: 10/14/10 at 11:59pm

On Broadway it got good reviews to solid reviews even from Terry from WSJ and that is saying something it is just amazing that it will not win the tony for the public due to its lack of commercial value . But do see it it is apparently amazing. I will go as far to say this is the best show on Broadway right now

[wolfwolf]

Posted: 10/14/10 at 11:59pm

On Broadway it got good reviews to solid reviews even from Terry from WSJ and that is saying something it is just amazing that it will not win the tony for the public due to its lack of commercial value . But do see it it is apparently amazing. I will go as far to say this is the best show on Broadway right now

[Broadwayboy2631]

Posted: 10/15/10 at 12:08am

"So much of what I've read this morning seems to be from people who just want to suckle B Walker's tits (most of all Brantley, who seems to have sent Walker the key to his apartment, and is waiting, tail up)."

Who can blame him?

[PReeves2]

Posted: 10/15/10 at 1:19am

on my next trip to nyc i'm only going to see BBAJ too learn how a good idea goes from
bad to worse. too bad the material seems a little dated now. Ben B. from NYT's had to give it a decent review due to his RAVE review from the public.

[Kad]

Posted: 10/15/10 at 1:43am

No, he didn't.

The material isn't dated at all- if anything, it works extremely well with burgeoning Tea Party right now.

[Brick]

Posted: 10/15/10 at 2:24am

Dated?

What are on earth are you talking about? Populism is all politics seems to be nowadays.