Melissa Etheridge: My Window (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (210)
See it if Experience one of the greatest rock artists up close & personal. She lays it all out perfectly with music (the guitar playing!) and stories.
Don't see it if Well, you know who you're seeing. So just go.
See it if you like autobiographical shows with music--and you're a fan of Melissa Etheridge.
Don't see it if shows that are essentially solo performance pieces turn you off--and Etheridge's music has never been your thing. Read more
See it if Melissa Etheridge’s My Window is a musical biography of her life as a lesbian rock star from the age 7. Spectacular show with 20 songs.
Don't see it if If don’t like dialogue about lesbian activities Read more
See it if you've ever heard Melissa Etheridge's music, like rock music and appreciate personal stories about dealing with challenges in life.
Don't see it if you don't like a great rock song.
See it if Of course you like Melissa. Life’s journey as told by actual person. Like live music in intimate setting. Very personal and uplifting.
Don't see it if Don’t like rock and roll music though it’s basically acoustic. Have an issue with a gay and lesbian personal story that is just happenstance
See it if you're a fan of Melissa Etheridge, are LGBTQIA+, enjoy memoirs, or just want to see a great show with a lot of heart.
Don't see it if you don't like her music, are homophobic, or only like meaningless drivel.
See it if You want to hear that powerful voice and the biography of her life, even the heartbreaking death of her son.
Don't see it if You do not enjoy small intimate theatres.
See it if you want to hear about her life from her directly, it's a beautiful, profound, and enchanting retelling
Don't see it if you dislike her songs or don't care about an autobiography
Critic Reviews (19)
“...this rock concert spliced with memoir has gained a striking intimacy, as if Etheridge had shrunk an arena to fit in the palm of her hand.”
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“Fans will nonetheless enjoy hearing Etheridge's story from her own lips, and when she slows down and lets us — and herself — live in a moment and feel a feeling for a little while, ’My Window’ is completely riveting.”
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“Etheridge’s an all-out performer, and just as she says onstage, really does seem to enjoy getting close to her audience.”
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“ ‘Melissa Etheridge: My Window’ is a performance built as much on candor as it is on musical talent, and until the big, rushed moment towards the end, Etheridge succeeds on both counts. One suspects its just too soon to deal with the latest tragedy, and Etheridge, her co-writer and her director just haven’t yet found a way to turn this ultimate heartache into art.”
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“It’s most touching and thoroughly entertaining.”
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“The bottom line is that Etheridge is a superstar who on this Broadway stage gives her audience the genuine gift of spending two-and-half hours with her up close, as if it were the old days and she were playing Girl Bar in LA in the ‘90s or the Cubbyhole in the aughts. It’s a brave and unusually intimate offering, worthy of applause.”
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“...’My Window’ is a straightforward artist’s journey of self-expression and survival, lovingly ladled to a fan-filled crowd in itself worth watching.”
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“Why is this night with Melissa Etheridge different from all other singing-celebrity confessional nights on Broadway? The difference isn’t in the story, really. It’s the storyteller...A virtue of ‘Melissa Etheridge: My Window’ is the degree to which the drama contains the story of a truly self-made artist.”
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