The Little Prince (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets
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See it if you have an imagination and loved the children's story!
Don't see it if you can't use your imagination anymore. Read more
See it if You like renditions of The Little Prince! The performance is beautiful and it captivated the magic of the beloved classic! Well done!
Don't see it if You prefer a typical Broadway musical or a play. The little Prince is more of a performance combining narrative, dance, and aerial arts.
See it if you love the story "The Little Prince", you love exquisite choreography and beautiful music and have the heart of a child.
Don't see it if you are looking for a brassy musical or have issues with French, don't like modern classical music or beautiful, loving storytelling. Read more
See it if You understand the original story of A little prince. A beautiful & highly talented interpretation of the original story come to real life
Don't see it if You expect a standard Broadway musical/play.The story has many deeply layered meanings&must be understood by the viewer to appreciate the Read more
See it if you like a truly magical Broadway show with amazing acrobatic & dance. Wonderfully lyrical interpretation of the book! Stellar ensemble!
Don't see it if you expect a musical that follows a story that starts at the beginning of the show and ends at the end. This, like the book, is fragmented.
See it if You want to see a gorgeous modern dance interpretation of The Little Prince. Has a Cirque de Soliel feel to it. Beautiful projections.
Don't see it if You expect an ordinary Broadway show. This is all dance. If you aren’t familiar with the book you might not appreciate the beauty of it. Read more
See it if You are familiar with the story and want to see it enacted by a talented cast. If you do not know the story, the show can be confusing,
Don't see it if You want a traditional play.
See it if You know the story. You are prepared to enjoy art in a different way. Talented performers. Sweet ending. It's CLOSED CAPTIONED!!
Don't see it if You are expecting big costumes and musicals or big dramas. This is not like your average Broadway Show. Read the book before you go.
Critic Reviews (19)
"The show is trying to juggle theater, dancical, circus, cabaret and everybody’s favorite: philosophical musing. It’s a mix that Cirque du Soleil, especially with the shows directed by the mastermind Franco Dragone, has fine-tuned into cohesive spectacles. And the company’s achievements seem even more remarkable in comparison to this underwhelming mishmash, which opened on Monday at the Broadway Theater."
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"The talented dancers deserve better, and so does the audience. Despite a last-ditch downpour of red hearts and (finally!) some decent aerialism at the finale, the question lingers: What the hell was that? The answer is unclear. The Little Prince is neither here nor there nor anywhere, really. It’s lost in space, and a waste of time."
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"For better or for worse, this Little Prince feels like something plucked from a kid’s haphazard imagination, but if such a kitschy quality flies (no pun intended) anywhere, it’s in a story like this. After all, de Saint-Exupéry’s best-known words are, “One sees clearly only with the heart; that which is important is invisible to the eye.” Look at The Little Prince with the eye and see an enjoyable, if flawed, dance show. Look with the heart and you’ll see a beautiful, fun-loving, deeply affectionate tribute to de Saint-Exupéry's book and the child that lives in all of us."
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"Once that drop goes up, the restrained watercolor charm of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s children’s book is nowhere. And if you don’t know the story already, bonne chance. Saint-Exupéry’s eccentric plot sloshes around inside this dance-theater container, recognizable only to the initiated. By the time our petite hero has shuffled off the mortal coil (reminder: The Little Prince is terrifying!), I would wager only those of us who remembered the book had the faintest idea what was going on."
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"Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s elegantly humble 1943 children’s novella The Little Prince is transformed into a visually spectacular, dramatically overblown meld of dance, music, video and, best of all, breathtaking aerial acrobatics in Anne Tournié’s international staging opening on Broadway tonight at the Broadway Theatre."
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"And yet, for all the blur, faux-modernity, wrongheaded bluster and maladroitness of the first half of “The Little Prince,” the second half is brilliant, better paced, hewing to tradition without eschewing its future-forward, dreamlike qualities. It never comes across as a mishmash of influences."
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"Nothing in “The Little Prince” wakes you up so much as those flying follicles, and all of it is swallowed up by one of the theater district’s largest houses at 1,761 seats...The lack of a thrilling adventure, the middling spectacle, canned songs and a corny CGI landscape make for a “Prince” that’s much too petit for Broadway."
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"Those who love the book will take pleasure in hearing famous lines like, "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." But sadly, Mouron's sometimes booming narration feels more like an intrusion, particularly in later dance sequences involving the Aviator and the Fox (Dylan Barone). In a smaller venue, the dance and the acrobatics might have been all the narration The Little Prince needed, letting what was essential be unheard by the ear."
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