A Letter to Harvey Milk

See it if you're comfortable with a mix of disparate ideas and elements (Jewish ethnicity, gay bias, and other unrelated stuff), set to music.

Don't see it if you want to learn something about Harvey Milk or the political and social issues of the day.

See it if You like horrendous musicals that are trite & borderline offensive. You don't care about losing 2 hours of your life to cringe-worthy crap.

Don't see it if You value your time & money. You're a Jewish person with any shred of self-respect. You prefer entertainment that isn't cringe-worthy crap.

Also This was one of the worst plays I've ever seen in my life. My playwright friend felt the same—in fact, he was angry that he could never get those 2 hrs of his life back. So I simply can't understand how it averaged a 79 here. The "Jewish humor" was so trite, forced, heavy-handed, & caricature-ish, my friend & I (who are both Jewish) were actually offended by it. The writing veered from embarrassingly amateur to atrocious. We literally cringed at some of the worst of it. It actually made me angry, it was so bad. Subtlety? Nuance? Nonexistent. The characters were like bad stereotypes of early-20th-century NY Jews. The only analogy I can make is that it was like blackface for Jews. Yes, it was that awful. The deli scene was almost physically painful for me. I can't understand how others—especially fellow Jews—LIKED it & found the RIDICULOUSLY UNFUNNY "humor" funny. The "reveal" actually had the potential to be moving, but the horridness of what came before it destroyed that possibility.... Read more Read less

See it if You like schmaltzy musicals

Don't see it if You were hoping to see a show about Harvey Milk.

See it if Stresses challenges of gays and lesbians with their families and society.

Don't see it if it if have issues wit gays and WWII death camps.

See it if This is musical to entice Jews and gays with a bait-and-switch scenario. The story and characters are too simple with a forgettable score.

Don't see it if There is drama, humor, a dead wife, a butcher, Nazi camp, Harvey Milk and a lesbian, aka, everything but Marlene Dietrich singing her songs.