In Transit
In Transit - 2016 Broadway History , Info & More
Circle in the Square (Broadway)
1633 Broadway at 50th St. New York, NY
Featuring an a cappella score from the talents behind Frozen and Pitch Perfect, IN TRANSIT is a new, modern musical, bringing to life a vivid tapestry of characters and music in the city that never sleeps... or stands still. Inspired by the vibrant rhythms of life on the subway, IN TRANSIT follows the intertwining lives of eleven New Yorkers, all hoping to catch the express train to success, love and happiness- and the stops they make along the way.
With a book, music and lyrics by Academy Award winner Kristen Anderson-Lopez (Frozen), James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan and Sara Wordsworth and vocal arrangements by Deke Sharon (Pitch Perfect, "The Sing-Off"), IN TRANSIT is directed and choreographed by three-time Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall (Anything Goes, Nice Work If You Can Get It).
In Transit - 2016 - Broadway Cast
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Theater Review: In Transit, a Musical Without Musicians
5 / 10
I can't square the musical sophistication of In Transit with its narrative hackwork. Kathleen Marshall's staging, with its let's-get-past-it rather than the let's-explore-it approach, doesn't help: It's definitely an express. (Even so, the show is a bit too long at 100 minutes without intermission.) If all of Marshall's cleverness as a director and choreographer goes toward smoothing and polishing the surfaces, perhaps that's because in a cotton-candy musical like this one there's nothing underneath. The cast, for instance, is admirably diverse, yet from the show's portrait you would think that the New York subway in 2016 represented a utopian post-racial environment. Nor is anyone poor, except for one smelly homeless person who is the butt of an obvious joke, and the once-rich white guy who is learning his lesson. Donyale Werle's charming set, with its treadmill tracks and mosaic motifs, gives the MTA a Museum of Transportation gloss, but it made me wonder, as did the show in its entirety: Have you been down there recently? And have you been up here?
‘In Transit’ review: Sanitized subway musical in a capella
6 / 10
The 100-minute musical - really, a collection of songs about mostly unrelated people in career and romantic transition - is meant to be inspired by the rhythms of the subway. This comes through best with the rumbling beats and virtuosic sound effects made by Boxman, a wise subway eccentric and one-man band played by beatbox artist Steven 'HeaveN' Cantor. Otherwise, it's a stretch to find the subway-rhythm idea as more than a pretext for getting together 11 actors to portray 40 very sincere and familiar characters - the struggling actress/office temp (Margo Seibert); the obsessed dumped girlfriend (Erin Mackey); the engaged gay guys (Justin Guarini and Telly Leung), one of whom is in the closet to his pious but kindly Texas mother (Moya Angela); and the former Wall Street guy (James Snyder) fired for pressing 'send all' on an indiscreet email and now, unbelievably, left without enough to take the subway.
In Transit FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Do What I Do
Four Days Home
Broke
Saturday Night Obsession
Wingman
But, Ya Know
Not There Yet Cannon
Keep It Goin'
A Little Friendly Advice
Choosing Not to Know
The Moving Song
We Are Home
Getting There
Finale
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Other Productions of In Transit
| 2010 | Off-Broadway |
Primary Stages Production Off-Broadway |
| 2016 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
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