See it if You want to laugh from beginning to end. Great acting and chemistry between all four characters. Amy Shumer at her best. Could see it again
Don't see it if You have no sense of humor and dislike sexual innuendo. No intermission but fast moving. No leg room in this theater
See it if Great acting and staging! Very funny. See it if you like comedies. Steve Martin mind of comedy. For adults, not for children
Don't see it if If you don’t comedies. If your not a fan of amy, maybe not for you. No kids
See it if You want to see a show that is really really funny with actors who do an amazing job with the material - it was truly hilarious!
Don't see it if You want to see a meaty show covering serious topics - this isn't that show.
See it if You like a very funny show with great acting by some great comedians. You enjoy non-linear storytelling with clever twists. Very well done.
Don't see it if You don't want to see a comedy.
See it if you enjoy the comedy of Steve Martin and you need some laughter in your life. You want to see the Broadway debut of top comedians.
Don't see it if you need a linear plot to enjoy a show.
See it if you still believe in love
Don't see it if if you sarcastic and too realistic
See it if you enjoy Amy Schumer’s type of humor (though toned down just a bit for broadway).
Don't see it if you don’t like it when people make you laugh.
See it if like brain twisting humor.
Don't see it if like linear plays.
“Under the guidance of Zaks, this four-person laff-riot eschews sentiment for undiluted surrealist vaudeville...The quartet of comic experts are just sensational together, and Zaks' fast and funny staging keeps us from unnecessarily lingering on vague philosophical points...From sound designer Patton’s opening blast of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony to the uproarious predicament presented by the play's final clinch, ‘Meteor Shower’ lights up Broadway."
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“Hardly the stuff of great comedy. While many of the jokes land by virtue of their eccentricity and delivery, the play as a whole suffers from...milking its premise past its ‘sell by’ date. Despite the excellent quality of the performers and the direction by Zaks, the play is hard-pressed to get beyond the sketch comedy roots...Martin's writing lacks the discipline of, say, Yasmina Reza, whose 'God of Carnage' is the model of the kind of comedy 'Meteor Shower' strives to be."
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“A scattershot – and even scatterbrained – comedy of bad manners...The play’s shaky tonal shifts, pileup of non sequiturs and lurches from naturalism to absurdity render it strangely weightless...The actors, to their great credit, keep the mostly aimless proceedings at least watchable...Feels like a jumble of scenes, jokes and gags that haven’t been properly assembled into a cogent play. The laughs erupt, but there’s little aftereffect, as with meteors streaking across a blank sky.”
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“Schumer backs her star wattage with a nicely relaxed performance, and the other three actors do everything they can with their two-dimensional roles (Shamos is best)...But with all due respect to the actors, the script's abundance of jokes and clever twists and turns, even with Beethoven several times accompanied by Ms. Benanti's sexy dancing, can't compensate for the lack of real sizzle and sophistication — and, most importantly, a meaningful, coherent theme.”
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“Steve Martin's old/new wonderful comedy, ‘Meteor Shower,’ is about two California couples getting together for the first time--again, and again, and again. Like ‘Groundhog Day,’ it keeps starting all over again, with ensuing variations. And in the course of its brief, 80-minute, intermission-less duration, the couples have exchanged more than just words and ideas. By the end, they seem to have exchanged their personalities as well.”
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"A zany absurdist comedy that keeps repeating over and over again in varying scenarios that release the different personalities living beneath the surface...They are all over the edge in this madcap comedy to the nth degree, and it’s a little confusing until you get the pattern...It’s 80 spinning minutes of roller coaster, and you can’t help being taken with the twists and turns as new characterizations emerge from these four comedic pundits who meld so perfectly together in impeccable timing."
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“What does one say about an entertainment this lightweight, this pointless, this short? I could start with an observation about the splendid cast and design team assembled by Zaks and the surprising amount of theatrical talent...Or, I could just jump right into the issue of high expectations and low return...The collection of funny bits and silly pieces of action that comprise this short evening in the theatre do not, at the end of the day, a whole play make.”
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“The play provides a lot of laughter...Martin includes several funny lines as well as physical humor and visual humor...The dialogue and plot get a bit raunchy at times and might be offensive to some...At first, the comedy is a bit puzzling...Quite frankly, I don’t think most of the audience cared. They just seemed to have a good time...Perhaps the lesson is that if a ‘Rain of Fire’ attacks a marriage, a couple can withstand it together or with a lot of laughter.”
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