Tuck Everlasting
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Tuck Everlasting
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Tuck Everlasting NYC Reviews and Tickets

77%
(793 Ratings)
Positive
77%
Mixed
19%
Negative
4%
Members say
Enchanting, Entertaining, Delightful, Great staging, Fluffy

About the Show

A new musical based on Natalie Babbitt's best-selling novel about a young girl's encounter with an immortal family. Directed by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw.

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Show-Score Member Reviews (793)

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67 Reviews | 20 Followers
89
Delightful, Enchanting, Entertaining, Funny, Clever

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

548 Reviews | 1902 Followers
89
Delightful, Entertaining, Enchanting, Great staging, Refreshing

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.

105 Reviews | 12 Followers
88
Absorbing, Delightful, Enchanting, Thought-provoking, Resonant

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

1181 Reviews | 466 Followers
88
Delightful, Enchanting, Quirky, Thought-provoking, Great staging

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.

468 Reviews | 190 Followers
88
Delightful, Enchanting, Charming, Great staging, Refreshing

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.

300 Reviews | 65 Followers
88
Delightful, Enchanting, Great acting, Fluffy, Thought-provoking

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

350 Reviews | 163 Followers
87
Enchanting, Entertaining, Resonant

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.

96 Reviews | 32 Followers
87
Delightful, Enchanting, Entertaining

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!

Critic Reviews (51)

DC Theatre Scene
April 26th, 2016

"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 Guardian (UK)
April 26th, 2016

"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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The Wrap
April 26th, 2016

"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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The Huffington Post
April 26th, 2016

"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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W
May 1st, 2016

“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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Newsday
April 26th, 2016

"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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The Stage (UK)
April 27th, 2016

"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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NorthJersey.com
April 27th, 2016

"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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