Paramour NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (750)
See it if You have never seen a live Circe de Soleil show. It was truly amazing to see the performers act and perform the most amazing feats.
Don't see it if Dont like acrobatics.
See it if you want to enjoy a mix of Cirque Du Soleil and Broadway.
Don't see it if you are looking for a traditional Broadway musical.
See it if You like Cirque Du Soleil action, singing and dancing.
Don't see it if You want straight acting.
See it if you love Cirque du Soleil and acrobatics and want to see all of that without crazy make-up and costumes.
Don't see it if you expect to see a show with a plot, good dialogue or deep character development.
See it if you love Cirque shows mixed with a traditional Broadway story and songs. The show has amazing choreography with highly energetic dancers.
Don't see it if You do not like cirque elements blended into a lackluster love story with traditional Broadway music. Expect to see only Cirque elements. Read more
See it if you are interested in how great Broadway production numbers and circus acts can be seamlessly intertwined. See it for the spectacle.
Don't see it if you are not a fan of circus acts and are looking for more of a plot-driven musical.
See it if The music is fun and classic 1920s Hollywood, the actors are gorgeously dressed; what you see will SHOCK YOU.
Don't see it if You don't like acrobatics.
See it if you like Cirque du Soleil. No matter how insipid the script is (and this is terribly banal, suited for Broadway audiences of tourists)
Don't see it if you want substance
Critic Reviews (43)
"Philippe Decouflé hasn’t managed to make the plotline gel into a sensible, dramatic whole, but he certainly keeps the pace up with the help of the lighting designs of Patrice Besombes and Howell Binkley, the projections of Olivier Simola and Christophe Waksmann and Pierre Masse’s rigging and acrobatic equipment which had to be carefully—and safely—integrated into the scenery."
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"'Paramour' is a thinly disguised excuse to put these gymnasts/dancers on the stage. Noted. The story is a combination of every old plot you can shake a stick at...Indeed there seems to have been a bit of overthinking with this story. This is unfortunate because everyone on that stage is bringing their 'A' game–and they are a formidable collection of talent...Is 'Paramour' brilliant? Not quite. Did I have a great time – you betcha."
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“There are moments of theatrical electricity, such as a meticulously choreographed filmstrip sequence...Edit ‘Paramour’ down to 90 minutes and plop it in Las Vegas and you very well might have a hit...But market something as 'a love story, not only for the sense of profound human emotion, but also for the love of art,' as Decouflé states in the program notes, and you’re setting up an expectation that ‘Paramour’ can’t deliver.”
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"Though 'Paramour' features some spectacular circus acts, there’s something ludicrous about its efforts to marry them to what’s supposed to be a traditional Broadway musical...Indeed, every scene or song is accompanied by specialty acts or special effects that range from the peerless to pointless...All the dexterous derring-do acts not just as a distraction from the dopey dialogue, uninspired lyrics and largely generic music, but as pretty much the only good reason to see this show."
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“Fitfully thrilling and consistently baffling...A work this extravagantly misguided generates its own excitement. The mind can’t rest as it struggles to make sense of a woman warbling the title song as a man balances an umbrella on his head...If ‘Paramour’ has all the elements of a traditional Broadway tuner, they are jumbled together in so topsy-turvy a fashion as to achieve a perverse originality, a three-ring circus of artistic muddle, miscalculation and mayhem. And zombies.”
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"'Paramour' is most successful when it just chucks the plot entirely…By the second act, the three very uncharismatic leads and their generic tunes have definitely worn out their welcome…Wonderful is a chase across Manhattan rooftops. It’s most wonderful because the three leads are now gone completely...The number puts much needed bounce back into 'Paramour'...'Paramour’ features one of the most outlandishly awful big musical numbers ever. Yes, ever!"
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“Nothing more than a tissue-thin excuse to trot out the various acrobatic routines for which the Canadian troupe is famous. If you go looking for clever dialogue or memorable songs, you won’t find them. However, if you come in expecting spectacular circus-themed joy, it’s here in abundance...With so many stagers involved, it’s no wonder the production is confusing...Fortunately there is enough high-flying pizzazz to make the overall show worth enough 'ahhhs' to justify your time."
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“The trappings that signify this is company’s attempt to present a Broadway-style musical - the forgettable songs, canned dialogue, an alternately cliché and cockamamie plot - are disproportionately amateur to both the physical feats on display and the scale of one of Broadway’s biggest theatres...More unfortunately, the story becomes a distraction from the incredible physical talent otherwise on display — and a hindrance to the troupe’s ability to really wow audiences.”
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