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Beaches reviews#50
Posted: 4/23/26 at 12:30am
BroadwayGirl107 said: "ElephantLoveMedley said: "Vosk seems to be singled out for praise in several of these reviews which otherwise trash the production. Could she end up astheir lone Tony nomination?"
I think most people have always been expecting Vosk to get a nomination."
Not at all. She’s Not in anyone’s predictions
Beaches reviews#51
Posted: 4/23/26 at 12:43am
DTLI Consensus: There ain’t much wind beneath this turd’s wings.
9 negative (including the NYT), 6 mixed, 1 positive.
https://didtheylikeit.com/shows/beaches/
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
Beaches reviews#52
Posted: 4/23/26 at 1:14am
A quick look at Did They Like It indicates the only other musicals to open since the pandemic with 1 (or 0) thumbs-up reviews are:
- Tammy Faye
- NYNY
- A Beautiful Noise
- Great Gatsby
Beaches reviews#53
Posted: 4/23/26 at 3:03am
I still have trauma from A Beautiful Noise.
Beaches reviews#54
Posted: 4/23/26 at 6:54am
rosscoe(au) said: "I still have trauma from A BeautifulNoise."
ABN was the rarity to have a good run despite poor reviews. And the tour is scheduled to go for a third year.
Stand-by Joined: 5/19/20
Beaches reviews#55
Posted: 4/23/26 at 7:42am
ACL2006 said: "rosscoe(au) said: "I still have trauma from A BeautifulNoise."
ABN was the rarity to have a good run despite poor reviews. And the tour is scheduled to go for a third year."
Great Gatsby and Wicked would like a word. (this won't be like that though)
Beaches reviews#56
Posted: 4/23/26 at 8:03am
Beaches and Wicked are not the same in terms of reviews lol
Beaches reviews#57
Posted: 4/23/26 at 8:05am
He also loved Pretty Woman. His only excuse for being an utter moron about American musicals is that he's British. And based in Chicago.
Beaches reviews#58
Posted: 4/23/26 at 8:29am
Damn, sales for this weekend are terrible! The matinees are 'all right', but the evenings.. Maybe 15% of the tickets are sold.
Leading Actor Joined: 9/25/24
Chorus Member Joined: 3/13/25
Beaches reviews#60
Posted: 4/23/26 at 9:11am
I've heard now from two people this could close THIS weekend?
Beaches reviews#61
Posted: 4/23/26 at 9:14am
musicthatmakesmedance said: "I've heard now from two people this could close THIS weekend?"
Oh wow! I assumed May 3 but yeah I can see it. Beaches being a bigger flop then Queen of Versailles!!! Woof
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/19
Beaches reviews#62
Posted: 4/23/26 at 10:00am
Producers need to stop indulging their own nostalgia and reliving their youth memories by bringing to life this type of low quality shlock based on old, forgotten movies nobody cares about and anyone younger than 40 isn't even familiar with. Time will tell if The Lost Boys survives or not, but at least they have succeeded in making that production a high budget spectacle.
Featured Actor Joined: 1/8/24
Beaches reviews#63
Posted: 4/23/26 at 10:02am
Seafarer2 said: "He also loved Pretty Woman."
that right there completely ruins his credibility as a critic for life
Beaches reviews#64
Posted: 4/23/26 at 10:25am
Musigamist said: "There's a paywall, but Chicago Tribune's Chris Jones is positive:
All that said, my eyes were more moist than they were a decade ago, perchance a function of my age and growing sentimentality, but also of a story that just is inherently appealing, especially for anyone who has seen cherished friends drop away.
There is an audience for this sentimental piece, I think, given the relative paucity of sincere musicals this season. Women, especially, who remember and love the movie and its signature song will warm to its proffering of a thing devoutly to be wished: your most successful friend telling you they owe it all to you.
Enough for a nice matinee with a bestie, no?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/22/review-beaches-broadway/"
His full review reads more mixed than positive.
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Beaches reviews#65
Posted: 4/23/26 at 10:26am
I can't remember the last time a show was so poorly received that a professional reviewed went down the creative team list far enough to drag the wigs, costumes, and lights. Wow. That's an all timer up there with the Brooklyn review that said you can't leave the theater humming the costumes.
Beaches reviews#66
Posted: 4/23/26 at 11:03am
Hey BWW, why isn’t anything beaches related on the front of your website? Why do I have to go a search? The show just opened - I’d think it would be front and center
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
Beaches reviews#67
Posted: 4/23/26 at 11:27am
So, if the show does indeed close this Sunday night, they’ll be doing so to a virtually empty theatre. Even if they have everyone with a ticket move to the front center orchestra, they wouldn’t even be able to fill it halfway. 🥺
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
Beaches reviews#68
Posted: 4/23/26 at 11:29am
MichelleCraig said: "This thread could’ve been called: NOT SINCE BEANIE FELDSTEIN!
Sigh…"
But I thought she was a STARRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! 🤣
Beaches reviews#69
Posted: 4/23/26 at 11:36am
ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "A quick look atDid They Like It indicatesthe only other musicalsto open since the pandemic with 1 (or 0) thumbs-up reviews are:
- Tammy Faye
- NYNY
- A Beautiful Noise
- Great Gatsby
"
On Broadway Score Card is the third worst this decade, behind only DIANA and BAD CINDERELLA.
I almost would like to see it.
Beaches reviews#70
Posted: 4/23/26 at 11:40am
I am aware that professional theatre critics will make their candid reviews. I get that. It's the callousness of some reviews, prior to the opening, that roils me at times. That's all.
Beaches reviews#71
Posted: 4/23/26 at 11:43am
48 on Broadway Scorecard. Stay away.
"Critics find this long-gestating musical adaptation waterlogged and maudlin, with a forgettable new score and schlocky book that squanders the movie's modest charms, though Jessica Vosk's performance earns consistent praise."
https://broadwayscorecard.com/show/beaches
Beaches reviews#72
Posted: 4/23/26 at 12:03pm
It’s rare for a production to be such a perfect storm of failure. I feel for the cast and crew, but this falls squarely on the shoulders of the producers for so ineptly marshaling this in nearly every way.
Beaches reviews#73
Posted: 4/23/26 at 12:04pm
Holdren in Vulture takes the time to call out most of the members of the cast by name...while saying the show is dire.
Beaches Did Make Me Sad, But Not the Way It Wants To
A ton of performing talent, led by Jessica Vosk and Kelli Barrett, is in the service of enormous and unexamined clichés.
https://www.vulture.com/article/beaches-made-me-sad-but-not-the-way-it-wants-to.html
"The fact that Jessica Vosk is singing her butt off as Cee Cee up on the Majestic stage, and really doing her best underneath an endless succession of red wigs, is therefore both good and, well, not bad but somehow sad. It’s nice to hear great singers sing. It’s sad to hear them pour themselves out in service of something so fundamentally trite — and something that, in Vosk’s case, won’t ever emerge from a shadow no matter how well she lands the punch lines and rattles the rafters."
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"Let’s not leave hard-working actors to sell half-baked goods or make them use their chops to muscle life into the lifeless eight times a week. Because along with Vosk, there is a lot of vitality in Beaches, most especially bursting from the four young performers who play childhood and teen versions of Bertie and Cee Cee. Again, more is more, but at least here that more is giving some talented kids the chance to shine. As the teens (along with various other roles), Bailey Ryon and Emma Ogea add spark to the contrivance of that epistolary number (“Show the World Who You Are”), but it’s really Zeya Grace and Samantha Schwartz as the littles who scamper away with big chunks of the show. While the sexed-up Baby June mode in which Dart has fashioned little Cee Cee is sometimes unnerving (“Stick out your titties!” she squeals at a shocked baby Bertie), Schwartz is one hell of a mini-dynamo. I’m both excited and worried for her. There’s so much skill there, and so much joyful effervescence. I hope she can maintain both. And that the future gives her better places to go than Beaches."
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
Beaches reviews#74
Posted: 4/23/26 at 12:08pm
Patti LuPone FANatic said: "I am aware that professional theatre critics will make their candid reviews. I get that. It's the callousness of some reviews, prior to the opening, that roils me at times. That's all."
Yes, and I think everyone can agree that the talent on stage is absolutely there, but there is only so much they can do with such terrible material.
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