Paramour NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (750)
See it if love acrobatics and tricks
Don't see it if hate sparkly shows
See it if You are a fan of Cirque Du Soleil.
Don't see it if You don't like trampolines.
See it if you want to be blown away by aesthetics and staging and love cirque and acrobatics
Don't see it if you are looking for a deep and moving story line with fleshed out characters
See it if like a blend of bway and cirque du soleil. the show has been reworked and much better than when it first opened
Don't see it if do not like cirque du soleil. or big spectaculars
See it if Cirque de Soleil, musicals,
Don't see it if You don't like Cirque de Soleil, old time Broadway musicals.
See it if you want great singing and a classic love tale told through a sweet simple, combination of mediums (musical, circus, and film).
Don't see it if you expect a lot of acrobatics, standard staging, or a new story - this is not a full on Cirque du Soleil show nor a full blown musical.
See it if You love great acrobatics with a solid underlying score and plot
Don't see it if You don't care about the acrobatics and are there for the acting and story
See it if you love non-stop visual old-Hollywood fantasy escapism. The singing's pretty great too. Open you mind, sit back/relax, enjoy the spectacle.
Don't see it if you like the usual cirque-de-so-blah stuff. There's a story here so if you don't want to pay attention, this ain't for you.
Critic Reviews (43)
"Can a show be kinetically exciting yet dullishly cliched? Yes, that show is 'Paramour'…It refuses to plumb insight into the filmmaking process, instead reveling in tropes older than the Barnum & Bailey circus tent...The show does best when it drops the pretense of a story and simply goes for the pizzazz…'Paramour' is so good and so bad, but it provides bang for your buck…Don’t think! Just enjoy the stunts and splashiness and kindly ignore the rest."
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"Sometimes overstuffed and awkward but it always finds its footing when it highlights its soaring, rubber-bodied stars…Unlike other Cirque shows, this one does a really fine job of integrating the acrobats into the narrative…It's thrilling stuff…It's got a cliche-ridden, lumbering plot and dialogue that veers from leaden German operatic to kiddie jokes…A lot of 'Paramour' looks like too many cooks were tossing in ingredients…When the show works, it works."
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"Cirque du Soleil is a unique experience into itself. To box it into a musical format is foolish, for the show to be truly engaging has to soar and be free of any restrictions...My advice to you if you decide to go to 'Paramour' and want to enjoy it to its fullest is this...don't take it seriously, don’t try to make sense of the show; you’ll just give yourself a headache. Just relax, go with the flow, and enjoy the madcap, zany camp spectacle known as Cirque du Soleil’s 'Paramour.'"
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“The stage dynamics, choreographed with jaw-dropping synchronicity, are so dizzying, non-stop and complicated, the hackneyed simplicity of plot is a blessed relief...The opening number is so startling in its busyness it’s discombobulating, but when ‘Paramour’ legitimately melds acrobatics with plot, song and dance, it flies high...An astonishing spectacle of acrobatic and gymnastic virtuosity, most often exhausting, sometimes exhilarating.”
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“Atrocious and incompetent effort now being offered by Cirque du Soleil. It shows that this troupe knows nothing about Broadway musicals...Beware, Cirque fans! If in the past you’ve loved to ‘Ooooh!’ and ‘Ahhhh!’ at the many wondrous stunts enacted by gymnasts and acrobats, you’ll be using your vocal cords far less frequently. About a third of the show is devoted to pyrotechnic feats...The other two-thirds of the show is a musical. It stinks.”
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"The creators of 'Paramour' don’t seem to have given a lot of thought as to what larger meaning these admittedly impressive acts should have in the larger narrative of the show...The randomness of most of the circus acts might be a bit more forgivable if the words and music surrounding them showed a bit more craft. However, the songs and the dialogue are unremittingly bland. With all of its financial resources, is this really the best script and score that Cirque could come up with?"
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"The thrills are still there, superb, dazzling, deliciously chilling in their daring and artistry but the attempt at a dramatic story is a klunker no matter how gorgeously dressed and cleverly staged…Turkey, 'Paramour' is not. There’s too much good, even extraordinary, in the show, almost all of it their specialties that have made them the greatest circus of humans in the world."
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"They made a big mistake by trying to think they are a musical and not an acrobatic delight...Not only that but they produced a new show with the sappiest story ever...It’s really second rate but interspersed in the silly story are, of course, the wonderful acrobatic sequences...As the show slogs on we wind up with a wild chase scene over rooftops with mattresses to land on that seem to have springs in them...Right after that the show just ends. Weirdest end of any show I ever saw."
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