See it if surprisingly good and entertaining. Classic looking production.
Don't see it if you don't like solid meat and potatoes Broadway.
See it if You like entertaining crowd pleasers, looking to have a light fun night at the theater.
Don't see it if You want a dramatic or heavy play that makes you think.
See it if You like campy, fun musicals that are very entertaining.
Don't see it if You like heavier material.
See it if An enjoyable show with charming actors. One of my favorites. All the actors were wonderful as were the special effects and sets.
Don't see it if You don't like musicals or you want something serious. But it's lots of fun and worth seeing.
See it if you can get past the 90s film's sexist plot point: a woman is gambled away for a weekend by her fiancée to pay off his debt to a casino don.
Don't see it if you'd hate a terrific score, fun-loving performances, and a rollicking good time.
See it if Tony Danza was surprisingly good and a smooth singer. The leads were charming.
Don't see it if You don't like an old-fashioned kind of show.
See it if You enjoy big splashy musicals but with a more contemporary score. You are a fan of the film. Also a good one to see with your mom :)
Don't see it if You dislike Jason Robert Brown. (In which case, no judgment, but who are you?) You dislike the movie. Read more
See it if you don’t mind some casual racism in your theatre / you want a great opening number that devolves into a cliched mess
Don't see it if you can avoid it.
"Wake up and smell the mai tais, New York. Las Vegas has come calling on you. And it’s on such good behavior, you’d be a churl not to embrace it...This production is a real-live, old-fashioned, deeply satisfying Broadway musical in a way few new shows are anymore. It offers the perfect sunny holiday for frozen Eastern city dwellers."
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"How to answer snobs who denounce Broadway as a cultural wasteland of gaudy lights, musical cheese and tacky titillation, a place where suckers flock to get fleeced? At least it’s not…Las Vegas? Well, the Great White Way has now become Sodom of the Southwest, and whatever happens there is definitely not staying there: Honeymoon in Vegas is too damn fun to keep secret."
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"It's breezy and fun, full of toe-tapping numbers, witty design touches and frequent bursts of irreverent comic inspiration. But it sputters after a tremendously entertaining first act. This is a 2½-hour musical with maybe 90 minutes' worth of decent material. Ultimately, the show feels slight."
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"It’s a great surprise that the large-scale musical version of the movie is a frothy delight, a pineapple-sweet warm-up in this most frigid season...Vegas has its share of missteps—a few clunker lines, a still-slightly-sexist undertone, and what has to be the only showtune in history about skin cancer. But a gifted, generous cast puts the entire affair over."
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"“Honeymoon In Vegas” answers gloomy Gotham’s crying need for some good old lowbrow farce. Scribe Andrew Bergman has turned his not-quite-cult 1992 movie into a not-quite-knockout Broadway musical. But with catchy tunes and clever lyrics, sweet comic turns, and a bevy of Elvis impersonators, this brassy little show might brighten up this town over the winter."
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"You think they just don’t make ‘em like they used to? To find out how wrong you are, head to Broadway for a couple of hours of finger-snapping, tap-dancing, hip-swiveling, Elvis-impersonating, night-club crooning fun. That’s what the musical adaptation of Honeymoon In Vegas promises and what it delivers."
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"The sexist values of the show are not so much 1992 as 1952...This is, of course, an old-fashioned musical comedy, a genre not known for its progressive values. And the warm-centered tone is never crass or sleazy. Still, this thing badly needed the safety of some chronological remove, especially given that women buy most of the tickets to shows like this."
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"The rambunctious new musical “Honeymoon in Vegas” is old-fashioned and proud of it. A big orchestra pumps out a brassy, melodic score that nods to Sinatra’s ba-da-bing days. The wacky plot could have been lifted from a 1960s caper. If only parts of the story didn’t cross the line between old-school and antediluvian."
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