See it if you like fantasies and enjoy a good love story & if you enjoy beautiful dancing and lovely songs
Don't see it if you only like realistic shows and aren't interested in shows that have kids as their main stars
See it if What a lovely amd sweet show. Beautiful staging and the last 10 minutes are incredible.
Don't see it if You wince at family fare.
See it if You read the book, watched the movie, love Andrew Keenan-Bolger, want something that's whimsical, beautiful, and emotionally compelling
Don't see it if You dislike silliness for the sake of silliness, creepy guys in yellow suits infuriate you, or want to avoid an existential crisis
See it if Sweet and sentimental. Truly lovely and full of joy.
Don't see it if If you're looking for a show that's fact based this is not for you. It's fantasy.
See it if you enjoy family-friendly musicals with stunning, fairy-tale-like sets. The cast is talented. Sarah Charles Lewis is magnificent (and 11!).
Don't see it if you dislike musicals or shows that engage through lightheartedness rather than thought-provoking drama. The songs entertain but don't stick.
See it if you have kids who loved the book when they were little
Don't see it if you expect to remember the score five minutes after leaving
See it if you are a fan of the story or like nostalgic stories. Miles' Act II number (Time) and the ending ballet are the best parts of the show.
Don't see it if you prefer something a little more thought provoking.
See it if you like sweet, entertaining musicals. Wonderful talent, beautiful sets and great choregraphy! You have to like a bit of fantasy too!
Don't see it if You are an old fuddy duddy (like my husband!). Its just a plain ole entertaining show. No great message but just plain lovely!
"The staggering finale is the only scene that completely fulfills 'Tuck Everlasting’s' obvious aim to be one of those musicals that appeal to children of all ages. Otherwise, the candy-colorful and energetic stage adaptation seems largely suited for 11-year-old girls…The songs are all pleasant enough, albeit not especially memorable, or even essential to the show, but they are delivered by a cast of charismatic pros."
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"The lyrics can feel generic and so, too, can the book…Something also seems amiss with the storybook design....The musical’s ultimate salvation is its sentimentality...Winnie is given a dead father, ostensibly to deepen her emotional predicament and there’s a sappy quality in how her pert presence revivifies each of the tired Tucks. If this seems mushy and unnecessary, the same sentiments inspire a concluding ballet, which is a triumph."
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"Nothing gives us a better glimpse of eternity than this musical’s lax narrative, generic performances, and endless ballet...The songs by Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen also give a nod to eternity. No tune seems to have a beginning, a middle and an end...Casey Nicholaw directs and choreographs...'Tuck Everlasting,' however, is more whimsical than it is broad slapstick, and Nicholaw is better with the latter. As a result, the performances in 'Tuck' come off as merely Broadway generic."
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"Wholesome, moral winsomeness will never go out of style, presumably; but a rousing musical it does not make, at least in the case of 'Tuck Everlasting'…Nicholaw proves that he can, indeed, work in this gentler, not-in-your-face form of musical…In 'Tuck Everlasting,' though, matters are all too mild…As has been the case in several recent musicals, many of the principal actors provide enjoyable performances."
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“Having just written a review of another new musical with lackluster songs, I regretfully feel this one is even less successful. Lyrics sound like heavy-handed and/or cliché prose unwillingly submitting to music which itself arrives homogenized folk. Except for a ballet epilogue, there’s no fantasy, no purity, no poetry. Being an otherwise tremendous fan of director/choreographer Casey Nicholaw, I can’t imagine what he was thinking!".
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"A gentle but hardly lightweight fantasy musical…This touching low-tech show is for an underserved niche audience — families who want to be thoughtfully charmed for a few hours after being hyper-entertained by 'Wicked' and 'Matilda'...Someone onstage says we don’t have to live forever, just live. I feel the same about the future of this enchanting long-shot of a show."
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"There's lots of decorative, wafty balletic dancing, and a final 15 minutes that are quite formally audacious for playing out the ending entirely as a narrative dance ballet. It's an eccentric device, but it finally rescues the show from the bland proceedings that have come before…Unfortunately what it sounds like is a lot of formulaic, generic ballads, albeit delivered with fervour and passion…A polite misfire of a musical about immortality that feels like it goes on forever."
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"There are a couple of book-to-stage issues that haven’t been completely solved...The show never firmly decides whether the story it’s basically telling is of Winnie growing up or the more interesting tale of the Tucks dealing with the burden of being stuck in time...While 'Tuck Everlasting' is essentially for children, adaptors Shear and Federle have inserted the requisite jokes for older folks...and there are some clever lyrics by Tysen, who wrote the serviceable score with composer Miller."
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