NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - Reviews Thread- Page 23

[SongandDance2]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 9:23pm

I’m impressed that no reviews have come out yet where usually there are several by this time. Could it be an embargo issued by the producers to respect the artists on their opening night and wait until later in the eve?

[quizking101]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 9:30pm

The show is about 2:40, so I anticipate they will start coming out any minute

[SongandDance2]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 9:41pm

Seems like it's rare for many news organizations to even wait until the show is over. I remember in early days of the internet when a lot of reviews would post at midnight eastern time. These days I've sometimes seen reviews posted shortly after the opening night performance has started.

[Robbie2]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 9:43pm

I anticipate the reviews any minute as the show ended

[Robbie2]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 9:44pm

Time Out says

3 out of 5 stars

The big city takes center stage in a new show with songs by Kander and Ebb.

Broadway review by Adam Feldman

 

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/new-york-new-york-broadway-musical-review-kander-ebb

[Robbie2]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:03pm

New York, New York’ Review: New Kander and Ebb Musical Is a Love Letter to Big City Gusto
 

https://variety.com/2023/legit/reviews/new-york-new-york-review-broadway-musical-1235595785/

 

Updated On: 4/26/23 at 10:03 PM

[Robbie2]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:05pm

New York, New York’ review: Broadway musical can’t make it here, anywhere
Post Pan
It’s tired, sappy and deathly dull.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/26/new-york-new-york-review-broadway-musical-cant-make-it-here/

Updated On: 4/26/23 at 10:05 PM

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:13pm

Elisabeth Vincentelli for the NYT:

"The Big Apple, Without Bite"

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/theater/new-york-new-york-review-broadway.html

[Robbie2]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:13pm

NY TIMES

New York, New York’ Review: The Big Apple, Without Bite

Based loosely on the 1977 film, a show about performers making it in the big city comes to St. James Theater with the sharper edges of its source material sanded off.

Sprawling, unwieldy, surprisingly dull show
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/theater/new-york-new-york-review-broadway.html

Updated On: 4/26/23 at 10:13 PM

[Robbie2]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:14pm

[BETTY22]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:17pm

Elisabeth Vincentelli is a great writer. "friction feeds fiction"

"The show follows the triumphant template set by Frank Sinatra rather than the more ambiguous one imparted by Minnelli. In this rose-colored vision, trials are temporary, everybody gets along, and nobody runs up against New York’s bad side."

Updated On: 4/26/23 at 10:17 PM

[akhoya87]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:18pm

Peter Marks of the Washington Post is, well, uh:

"My critical blues,

Never melted away,

They need a brand new start with it, this meh “New York”!"

Updated On: 4/26/23 at 10:18 PM

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:20pm

I usually despise Johnny Oleksinski's reviews, but I thought he was fairly spot on here.

Also, thanks to those that answered my question about Sorry I Asked.  It just seemed like such a specific sentiment that it felt like it had to be from a show, but I guess Kander and Ebb really are that good!

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:20pm

https://www.theatermania.com/news/review-new-york-new-york-offers-too-much-and-too-little_1700053/?fbclid=IwAR2uErnlSzryBFeVsjwVZm68z3jh_oyNtU_n6XdccsrqdRNN5kkfTV9uGuM

[PipingHotPiccolo]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:24pm

BETTY22 said: "Elisabeth Vincentelliis a great writer. "friction feeds fiction"

Well, she nailed it. 

(There are overall more forgiving than I expected them to be, and yet much harsher on the cast. Uzele's vocals arent "sophisticated" enough for Variety? Wow.)

 

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:27pm

DTLI Consensus: New York, New York doesn’t come through. 

7 negative (including the NYT), 6 mixed, 1 positive. 

https://didtheylikeit.com/shows/new-york-new-york/

Updated On: 4/26/23 at 10:27 PM

[PipingHotPiccolo]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:30pm

akhoya87 said: "Peter Marks of the Washington Post is, well, uh:

"My critical blues,

Never melted away,

They need a brand new start with it, this meh “New York”!""

This reminds me of Jackie Hoffman's standup about how harsh the critics were on The Addams Family. Peter Marks boredom at NY NY made him go stark raving insane.

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:30pm

I'm not normally a person who revels in bad reviews for shows I didn't like, but these are oddly satisfying to me. During the first act, I had a real desire to take out my phone and start aimlessly scrolling, and that's never happened to me before at a show. It's just a big pile of nothin'.

Updated On: 4/26/23 at 10:30 PM

[BossBroadway]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:33pm

These reviews are exactly why Lin backed out of the Tony awards...how can you lead an awards show when your name is attached to a VERY mixed show...?

[Voter]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:36pm

BossBroadway said: "These reviews are exactly why Lin backed out of the Tony awards...how can you lead an awards show when your name is attached to a VERY mixed show...?"

Yet he demanded they move the ceremony uptown….

[BossBroadway]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:37pm

This may not be the WORST reviewed new musical of the season (@Bad Cinderella), this is sure as hell close. 

[Robbie2]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:37pm

New York, New York Offers Too Much and Too Little

https://www.theatermania.com/news/review-new-york-new-york-offers-too-much-and-too-little_1700053/

John Kander draws from the Martin Scorsese movie musical, his back catalogue, and more for his latest Broadway show, with mixed results.

 

OUCH

Maybe Colton Ryan is aware of how generic his character is — a possible explanation for his embarrassingly mannered performance, with his Kermit the Frog-like voice and inexplicable accent.

Not even sound designer Kai Harada, otherwise doing solid work in making sure we can hear the lyrics, can save Ryan’s rendition in Act 2 of “A Quiet Thing,” in which his focus appears to have been on delivering it as quietly as possible

Updated On: 4/26/23 at 10:37 PM

[PipingHotPiccolo]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:38pm

TaffyDavenport said: "I'm not normally a person who revels in bad reviews for shows I didn't like, but these are oddly satisfying to me. During the first act, I had a real desire to take out my phone and start aimlessly scrolling, and that's never happened to me before at a show. It's just a big pile of nothin'."

I'm hopeful there are enough pull-quotes in these to help them stay open a while, but given the deranged response from this show's fans because people were so insulted by the book, the unanimous consensus here is welcome predictability. 

[quizking101]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:39pm

Robbie2 said: "New York, New York’ review: Broadway musical can’t make it here, anywhere
Post Pan
It’s tired, sappy and deathly dull.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/26/new-york-new-york-review-broadway-musical-cant-make-it-here/"

I CAN'T BELIEVE I AGREE WITH JOHNNY OLEKSINSKI WORD-FOR-WORD

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:41pm

So now, the hypothetical 5th slot for Best Musical is wide open. Who, realistically, would join & Juliet, Shucked, Some Like It Hot, and Kimberly Akimbo?