What you are getting for your top ticket price of $199 is a low-to-mid budget David Copperfield-type magic show with some neat tricks but minus any truly grand illusions, coupled with a protracted Muppet meet and greet to get folks in the door.
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Critics' Reviews
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BROADWAY: ‘Rob Lake Magic With Special Guests the Muppets’ sidelines stars to sidekick role
From: The New York Daily News |
By: Chris Jones |
Date: 11/12/2025
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Rob Lake Magic: Shattered Illusions
From: New York Stage Review |
By: Steven Suskin |
Date: 11/12/2025
The one illusion Lake misses out on, at the Broadhurst, is the illusion that his entertainment—even with the Playbill billing page proclaiming “special guests The Muppets”—is anything other than an over-rehearsed and over-polished touring Veg...
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Rob Lake Magic: Less Than the Sum of the Parts
From: New York Stage Review |
By: Frank Scheck |
Date: 11/12/2025
Unfortunately, we have to stick with what we’ve been given, which is an evening of illusions large and small as performed by Lake, whose chief claim to fame seems to be having been a finalist on America’s Got Talent (the longer television competi...
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Rob Lake saws his Broadway debut in half, Muppets and all
From: One-Minute Critic |
By: Lindsay B. Davis |
Date: 11/13/2025
Lake, a child of the 80s who gained popularity as an illusionist on America’s Got Talent, explains that The Muppets inspired him even before he found magic. Despite his obvious affection, the theatrical pairing is a mismatch.
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