PRINCE OF BROADWAY Reviews

http://www.amny.com/entertainment/prince-of-broadway-review-lavish-revue-of-hal-prince-is-enjoyable-but-how-about-something-new-1.14088193#

Mostly Positive from AMNY, which uses a song that isn't even in the show to set up the review, so take it with a grain of salt.

Chicago Tribune's review is mostly negative... with some praise for the cast.



https://www.google.com/amp/www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/broadway/sc-ent-prince-of-broadway-review-0825-story,amp.html

Having seen the final preview last night, I'm pretty much in agreement with the Deadline and Chris Jones' reviews.

Updated On: 8/24/17 at 08:37 PM

They never should have fired the robot.

I saw it at the last minute the other night for free, only because it's not something I would have seen of my own accord, but free is free. I mean, it's fine, we get the hear songs form the shows he directed, but it's just like any other revue type of show, there's nothing special about it.

Cheap. Vulgar. #sad Bigly.

Miles2Go2 said: "Does it usually take this long for the New York Times to post their review?



Yes.

Huff Post:

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_599f632de4b0a62d0987ae0b

Playbill's ongoing compilation of reviews:

http://www.playbill.com/article/what-did-new-york-critics-think-of-prince-of-broadway

BroadwayConcierge said: "NYT always comes out at 10PM on the dot."

The last big Off-Bway show I did, the Times review came out minutes before we started our opening night performance. We were literally at places and somebody was like, "The Times review is out." "How is it?" "Terrible." "OK, don't tell anyone. Happy opening!" (sad trombone)



I know the days are long gone of staying up all night at the party to wait for the reviews, but jeez, at least let us start our opening performance with the hope that maybe we won't immediately close.

Updated On: 8/25/17 at 09:32 AM

Auggie27 said: "The footage posted here makes the evening looks so startlingly literal in its homage, cruise ship recreations of numbers with all the original concepts intact but on the cheap. And the rare stuff -- "Superman" the exception -- is mostly missing. The idea of ending with that much of the long overexposed "Phantom," done precisely as it is it is across town, but with slimmer accoutrements, just makes the whole enterprise look recycled -- and missable. "

I will say this--it let's you see the good 10 minutes in Phantom without sitting through the other 2:20 of awfulness. And it did introduce my 12 year old to a number of classics, for example between the four Cabaret songs here and "it couldn't please me more" (the Pineapple song) at 54 Below's Broadhurst birthday party, she REALLY wants to see Cabaret when it's next revived.

Overall though, I found it like tapas. Some good nuggets, ultimately leaves me wanting a more substantial course. Even a simple framing device and some semblance of a book/organizing concept would have been an improvement.

Jerome Robbins' Broadway was brilliantly performed and executed; and they did entire CHUNKS of shows, i.e. FIDDLER and WEST SIDE.

It was expensive, looked it, sounded it and artistic, too.

Prince O' Broadway has been compared to dinner theater and cruise ship entertainment. Yikes.