Sunday, April 27, 2025
Ana García dreams of flying away. But when her family’s East Los Angeles garment business receives a make-or-break order for 200 dresses, Ana finds herself juggling her own ambitions, her…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:27PMWhat buoys it is an extremely likable cast, riding the waves of a hummable score that sounds variously of Mexico, Broadway and American pop. (The music director is Roberto Sinha.) And it doe…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:26PMWe gossip, stitch and sweat alongside them, fully immersed in director Sergio Trujillo’s heart-expanding, joy-swollen production — yet another landmark expansion of the “Real Women” …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:25PMCordoba, with her sweet, expressive face, is the kind of ingenue who’s easy to root for, and builds easy rapport with her family, chosen and biological. The musical trusts her to deliver, …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:24PMAs pertinent as that notion is, it’s just one empowering theme in this triumphant musical. While some might find the plot to be all-over-the-place, it’s about Ana’s experience. Serving…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:24PMBut politics comes most alive through the personal, and the heart of the musical lies in its characters’ dreams: those that conflict with others, those that are deferred and, most poignant…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:24PMDirected and choreographed with plenty of energy by Sergio Trujillo, this is a musical that does what it sets out to do and, by weight of circumstance, then some. It’s got plenty of bubbly…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:24PMWhile the hardship and terror of living in constant fear of a knock on the door or a tap on your shoulder is repeatedly conveyed in Real Women, the musical somehow flattens the experience wi…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:24PMIn a time when immigrants are being actively dehumanized throughout the United States, Real Women Have Curves provides a vital counterpoint—partly by depicting the dreams and fears of immi…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:24PMThe show’s vibe of joy and strength is crystallized in a final parade of Estela’s winningly glamorous creations (designed by Wilberth Gonzalez and Paloma Young), underlining again the af…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 10:24PMDEAD OUTLAW is the darkly hilarious and wildly inventive musical about the bizarre true story of outlaw-turned-corpse-turned-celebrity Elmer McCurdy. As Elmer’s body finds even more outlan…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 05:50PMThat’s the gorgeously perverse opening of “Dead Outlaw,” the feel-good musical of the season, if death and deadpan feel good to you. As directed by David Cromer, in another of his dari…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 05:49PMWith its cast fully intact, Dead Outlaw comes to Broadway just as pointed and playful as it was during its acclaimed off-Broadway run last year. While so much has already been said about thi…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 05:47PMAn unmistakable sign that musical theater is entering a thrilling new era of unlikely stories told in unexpected ways, Dead Outlaw seems destined to join the ranks of Oklahoma! and Gypsy as …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 05:47PMFollowing its well-received Off Broadway run produced by Audible last year, the musical retains its wickedness, vibrancy and nerve, as well as its extraordinary ensemble of actors. It also h…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 05:46PMHis mortal thread is cut, and Durand spends the rest of the musical being moved around inertly in what might be the most impressive deadpan performance in history. He’s staggeringly still:…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 05:46PMIn one of the quirkiest, most morbid and somehow loveliest musicals to hit Broadway this season – even Floyd Collins‘ dying spelunker plot seems conventional by comparison – Dead Outla…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 05:46PMAs adaptations of popular, already-established franchises continue to pop up on Broadway, it’s thrilling to see original, truly one-of-a-kind productions like Dead Outlaw rise up to meet t…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 05:46PMThe musical has many diamonds in the rough. They’re just not polished properly by Cromer’s staging, which is awfully haphazard and diffuse for a typically sure-thing director. S…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 05:46PMDurand delivers the most indelible performance of the season as McCurdy: motionless, flat-eyed and unblinking as he stands upright in a wooden coffin for much of the show, reduced to a rifle…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 05:46PMSaturday, April 26, 2025
Look out, Jonathan’s back! Tony Award® winner Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along, Hamilton) returns to Broadway this spring as Bobby Darin, the legendary singer whose short but remarka…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:05PMYet Groff is still swimming, right to the end. Dismayed as I was to endure so much else, I have to admit he’s giving one of Broadway’s best performances.
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SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:04PMWith a terrific full band right on stage the entire time, we are transported to the streets of East Harlem, Vegas, and even Portofino thanks to versatile nightclub scenic design by Derek McL…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:02PMNaturally, though, it’s Groff’s energy and charisma that anchor Just in Time. The brilliance of the show’s opening is that, by creating a staged-concert atmosphere from the start, it f…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:02PMDirector Alex Timbers and the book writers fail to go beyond the concert conceit, and never give us a real portrait of Darin or leave us with a clear idea of what we are supposed to think of…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:02PMGroff, assisted by a terrific trio of singer-dancers (Christine Cornish, Julia Grondin, Valeria Yamin) who back him up through the years and many, many fashions and dance styles, is tireless…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:02PMWhen Groff is singing and dancing (stunning choreography by Shannon Lewis), “Just in Time” absolutely dazzles. It doesn’t matter if what’s happening on stage ever makes you think of …
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:01PMGroff is undeniably great at bending a crowd around his little finger, and he’s working with an audience that’s delighted to be pandered to. He spends much of the show weaving through th…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:01PMThe melding of personas successfully transmutes Groff’s exceptional charisma and earned goodwill into the tale of a past celebrity most of the audience could not identify via photo. But it…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:01PMThe audience is situated in a sumptuously imagined, sparkling silver nightclub with multiple stages and a brilliant band in back. Groff spiritedly darts around the room, jumping on tables an…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 11:01PMThursday, April 24, 2025
Gilbert & Sullivan’s pirate ship docks in New Orleans in this jazzy-bluesy vision of the crowd-pleasing classic, in an outrageously clever romp sizzling with Caribbean rhythms and Fren…
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