Dames at Sea NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (242)
See it if you are into big long tap dancing number with one scenery in one and a new one in second act. The actors were great however!
Don't see it if you like uplifting musicals that change scenery because this one doesn't. I got my fill out of it once and only one time. Once is enough!
See it if you love good ‘ole fashioned musicals with lots of great tap dancing and singing.
Don't see it if you don't enjoy old musicals and want to see a story with more substance
See it if like tap dancing
Don't see it if you're looking for special effects
See it if you want to see Excellent tap dancing!
Don't see it if you don't like tap dancing.
See it if If you want to chuckle, be amazed by talented tap dancing and love musical films from the 1930s;
Don't see it if If you're not into campy humor or big tap numbers;
See it if you like old-fashioned musical comedy. Tap-dancing was fresh and that's not easy to say these days.
Don't see it if you tired of the old-fashioned, no substance, musicals of the past.
See it if You love tap dancing and old fashioned musicals. The show has lots of pleasant songs and is very lighthearted.
Don't see it if You don't like tap dancing. Don't like simplistic story lines or musicals
See it if Closing soon, five performers singing and tapping their hearts out. A fun and refreshing revival, amusing performances. Some pretty songs
Don't see it if You want more than just light entertainment, nothing more, with a very small ensemble for a musical of this kind. Not highly original.
Critic Reviews (42)
"Why bring this trifle to Broadway, for the first time, 49 years after its downtown premiere? Never mind; just check your cares and pretensions at the door of the Helen Hayes Theatre, and prepare to be thoroughly charmed...Through it all, happily, Skinner keeps everyone dancing, providing exuberant tap routines that his cast executes with joyful facility."
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"This production has as much excitement as one of those national tours that's been on the road for a long time. The underlying concept for this production seems somewhat unmoored. Its references to the musicals of the 1930s are unlikely to strike a chord...And people who like their musicals light on their feet can find more satisfying fixes in 'Aladdin' and 'American in Paris'...This production has missed the boat.'
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"Some grumpy reviews speculate that younger audiences may not know the source material well enough to fully appreciate what’s being satirized, deriding the material for being just empty-calorie escapism. Well, it is, but it’s as solidly built as escapism gets, and one of the rare musicals currently on display that actually sends you out happy and humming."
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"The production, directed and choreographed by Randy Skinner, has a hard-tapping, hardworking cast of six and enough varieties of I-love-to-dance smiles to become their own emoticons. What the musical does not have - in addition to a breakout ingénue to elevate the unrelentingly, cheerfully lame nonsense - is charm. This is, to put it gently, a one-joke show. And we get the joke over and over the tap-happy two hours."
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"A very streamlined theatrical experience... Presenting the story as a series of rapid, jokey moments does have its downside...In 'Dames at Sea' there's so little separation between musical routines, they acquire a rote-like quality, especially with the overload of tap-dancing, which is resolutely inserted wherever possible. ‘Dames at Sea’ is a period piece that, in its limited way, still has some life and laughs."
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"A technicolor, tap dance-filled tribute to the movie musicals of the 1930s. It’s delightful, and it doesn’t take itself seriously for a minute...'Dames at Sea' is a small-scale musical, crammed into Broadway’s teensiest theater, but with the gumption of a mighty battleship."
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"For a pleasant two hour visit with a score that never even tries to be original, and with six eager and talented singers-dancers-actors, you can have a jolly time at the Helen Hayes Theatre. "
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"'Dames at Sea' is pitched at those sitting in the balcony of the theater across the street. The frantic pacing never allows us develop even the slightest emotional connection to the characters, and the brassy, cutesy songs soon start to blur together...A little of this elbowing-in-the-ribs goes an awfully long way. There's a fine line between cute and cloying, and 'Dames' isn't even close to being on the right side of that line."
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