A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN Reviews

[smallworld]

Posted: 10/10/13 at 9:06pm

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[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 10/10/13 at 10:36pm

A Night With Janis Broadway Review

[CukorLover]

Posted: 10/10/13 at 11:08pm

Hey smallworld...FYI...the same choreographer, Patricia Wilcox, did both shows.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 10/10/13 at 11:12pm

Huh?

[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 10/10/13 at 11:16pm

CukorLover is saying that Patricia Wilcox choreographed both Motown and A Night With Janis Joplin -- Motown well, and A Night With Janis Joplin, not as well.

[jnb9872]

Posted: 10/10/13 at 11:32pm

New York Times is Mostly Positive

Isherwood reviews A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN

[mybigsplash]

Posted: 10/10/13 at 11:54pm

The selection of the review BroadwayWorld chose to represent the full review from the NYTimes in the "Review Roundup" doesn't accurately represent what the review express. Actually it's rather out of context. The review is clearly positive but the extracted quote BroadwayWorld selected makes it seem mixed. Hmm.

[chanel]

Posted: 10/14/13 at 9:56am

Michael Musto review on Out.com. (Scroll down).

"This Janis never sweats....A show you can take the kids to."

http://www.out.com/entertainment/michael-musto/2013/10/14/daniel-radcliffe-great-time-playing-gay-kill-your-darlings

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/14/13 at 5:51pm

The review is clearly positive but the extracted quote BroadwayWorld selected makes it seem mixed.

I agree that the excerpt posted on BWW neglects Isherwood's positive remarks, but the full review did come across as mixed to me. There actually was a bit more to the review that questions the book:

As the show draws to a close, Janis becomes less curatorial and a little more introspective. Mr. Johnson drops a few moderately portentous reflections into her casual patter, suggesting the dark fate that is just around the corner.

But the yearning that burns in her greatest songs — songs of men who don’t stay, and needs that won’t go away — really reaches us only through her music. All the talk about the blues in “A Night With Janis Joplin” — and Janis reverts to the subject with a consistency bordering on monomania — can’t really touch the heart of what it means to feel a cosmic loneliness that nothing can permanently assuage, which was essentially what drove Joplin to perform, and to self-destruct.

Updated On: 10/14/13 at 05:51 PM

[RippedMan]

Posted: 10/14/13 at 11:39pm

Basically the reviews are saying good performances but the book/story/play is a little too clean.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 10/15/13 at 1:14pm

Seriously, merge this with the book for Love, Janis and you'll have a show. Do you know how much overlap there is between the two scores anyway?

[BwayGeek2]

Posted: 10/16/13 at 11:58am

A lot of the reviews are positive

[AndrewAndrew]

Posted: 10/28/13 at 1:25pm

In A Night With Janis Joplin at Lyceum Theatre, Mary Bridget Davies is undoubtedly spot on as Janis Joplin, The Queen of Rock, but what insights do we take home from seeing her wax poetic about her childhood and sing duets with other blues singers that inspired her? Watch the video review and find out!
Click Here For Video Review of In A Night With Janis Joplin

[Broadwaystar2]

Posted: 10/28/13 at 1:59pm

^^ Absolutely LOVE you 2...LOL!!!

[AndrewAndrew]

Posted: 10/28/13 at 2:13pm

Thanks! But are you just saying that because you are drunk from all the Southern Comfort? :)

[Broadwaystar2]

Posted: 10/28/13 at 2:43pm

^^ LOL it was that last 30 seconds when you 2 said blues like 13 times that did it??