Gutenberg! The Musical! (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (647)
See it if You want to see Josh amd Andrew have a blast on stage. Tremendously funny show!
Don't see it if If you are looking for a serious comedy or a more traditional musical, this isn’t for you.
See it if you love musical comedies and want to see a love letter to musicals
Don't see it if you don’t like silly and goofy humor, running jokes, or references to other shows
See it if You want a fun, innovative, hilarious show with 2 amazing actors on stage! Had a fantastic time
Don't see it if You want something serious or are looking for a big stage show . This is a well done but silly show
See it if You love musical theatre and want a really good laugh.
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See it if The show is actor-centered and I loved that! Funny, simple, creative solutions. If you loved the Book of Mormon you will love Gutenberg!
Don't see it if I had a wonderful time... I am sure you will enjoy it too!
See it if You want to see a master class in comedy: two performers (and small on-stage band) doing every character and always nailing every bit!
Don't see it if You are expecting a very high-brow show-within-a show or hate the fourth wall being broken.
See it if You are looking for something truly hilarious and creative. I was either laughing or grinning from ear to ear the whole show.
Don't see it if You are looking for something more serious or that is more provoking. It’s quirky, hysterical, and a great time!
See it if you want to experience the palpable comedic energy of Gad & Rannells that infects the audience to hysterics.
Don't see it if you don't like two hander comedies or laughing so hard you might pee yourself. You want extensive staging and an ensemble. Read more
Critic Reviews (24)
"In the two-man, 20-character skit of a show that opened Thursday evening on Broadway, the jokes are abundant, interchangeable and lightweight: comedy as packing peanuts."
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"Affection is the key that opens the show’s comedy: As ridiculous as Doug and Bud may be, you feel for these guys and even root for them. As stupid as their historical musical may be, you can’t deny that they’ve got heart."
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“The show is a roughly 2-hour sketch – one that’s clever and filled with laughs but too long and overstuffed to ward off diminishing returns. Still, the production provides a prime showcase for the talents of Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells”
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"Like the art it’s satirizing, it’s a genre that can sometimes feel a little dippy and indulgent, but at its best it’s both outrageously funny and strangely, sweetly sublime...Rannells and Gad are wonderfully matched and, it appears, having a real blast with each other. Their comic timing is wetsuit tight, their chemistry indisputable, their energy manic but precise and, crucially, unflagging."
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"Even at a fairly pacey two hours the fun eventually turns to wheel-spinning, since the central gag—the ludicrous mismatch between content and form—is established from the start and then merely elaborated."
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"The real fun, however — and there is much of it — lies in simply watching Gad and Rannells run riot, riff with each other, play with the audience, and just have a grand old time once again playing sweet, deluded dreamers...In the end, it’s not 'Gutenberg' the show but rather this odd coupling of comedic pals, both on stage and off, that delights. Hats off to them."
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" 'Gutenberg!' is not designed to be anyone’s gateway musical or inspire a career in that impossible, flop-filled field, but it’s firmly imprinted on my heart, sans serif."
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"Brown and King have packed the show with numbers that manage to be both entertaining and as clunky as a ’67 station wagon. And composed a piece that might be a bit more fitting in a cabaret than in a Broadway theater. That is, of course, until you secure the services of the cutest couple on Broadway."
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