Big River NYC Reviews and Tickets

See it if You enjoy bluegrass country music and great singing.

Don't see it if You enjoy fast paced action. Read more

See it if You like musicals with a country music flavor. Huck Finn a good story. Lots of movement, funny moments, terrific acting all around.

Don't see it if You are looking for a typical Broadway musical...this has incidental dancing and lots of dialogue.

See it if you like country, blue grass, gospel music; Mark Twain (especially his Huckleberry Finn); simple staging - the raft is clever; narration

Don't see it if you want plot developed thru acting & singing rather than narration (Finn tells his story to the audience); little slow in Act II

See it if you love to read the classic Mark Twain.

Don't see it if you find Huckleberry Finn boring. Read more

See it if you'd like to see Roger Miller's gorgeous score beautifully performed by a great cast, accompanied by the Encores orchestra.

Don't see it if you cannot divorce the words, writing, and time period of Mark Twain from more contemporary ways of addressing racial and class issues.

See it if you like country music and a reminder of sadder days re; racial problems

Don't see it if you are expectinga song and dance etravaganza..... but alas we caught the last performance

See it if you enjoy country/blue grass "broadway" tunes, great voices, Lauren Worsham excels. Young Huck is an NPH in training

Don't see it if don't like Mark Twain

See it if You enjoy adaptations of classic novels. You want to see great performances & wonderful singing. You like country music.

Don't see it if You want to hear contemporary music: this is '80s country music. You want a classic, Broadway sound. You dislike literary adaptations.