Freestyle Love Supreme
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Freestyle Love Supreme
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Freestyle Love Supreme NYC Reviews and Tickets

90%
(89 Ratings)
Positive
96%
Mixed
4%
Negative
0%
Members say
Clever, Entertaining, Funny, Intelligent, Hilarious

About the Show

Conceived by Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Anthony Veneziale, this high-energy show is a blend of hip-hop, improvisational theater, music, and vocal stylings, all backed by live music from keyboards and beats.

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Show-Score Member Reviews (89)

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139 Reviews | 25 Followers
100
Astounding and brilliantly entertaining

See it if you want to be enchanted and delighted for 90 jam-packed minutes. The goofy grin will never leave your face.

Don't see it if you have an aversion to hip-hop and/or improv. Cannot imagine why anyone would, as the combination here is divine. Read more

183 Reviews | 41 Followers
100
Entertaining, Funny, Ambitious

See it if if you love improve from a bunch of nerdy theatre dudes. And if you love to smile - its nearly a perfect show every time

Don't see it if you just want the Lin show - he may or may not be there and the rest of the group is just as brilliant without him as they are with him

95 Reviews | 22 Followers
100
Funny, Amazing, Great rapping

See it if You like hip hop (freestyle in particular), you want shows that are interactive.

Don't see it if If you don’t like hip hop Read more

57 Reviews | 7 Followers
98
Relevant, Intelligent, Hilarious, Edgy, Clever

See it if You love improv, hip-hop, smart, audience participation, avant-garde, too much fun, musical theater!

Don't see it if You hate all the above or a Lin Manuel Miranda signature theatrical experience...

65 Reviews | 14 Followers
98
Absorbing, Clever, Delightful, Enchanting, Entertaining

See it if you like rap, improvisation, cleverness and laughing!

Don't see it if you have a poor sense of humor, or want something serious Read more

712 Reviews | 401 Followers
96
Absorbing, Clever, Entertaining, Great staging, Masterful

See it if Amazing, creative and stylist Rap.

Don't see it if don't like rap.

71 Reviews | 11 Followers
95
Hilarious, Masterful, Ambitious, Clever, Delightful

See it if you want to see real word wizards at work (I got lucky with Lin Manuel Miranda and Daveed Diggs as the guests, but EVERYONE is brilliant)

Don't see it if you're looking for a show - this is more of a concert but wonderful

192 Reviews | 38 Followers
95
Spontaneous, Edgy, Great writing, Hilarious, Intelligent

See it if you want to see improv masters at work, with an element of surprise thrown in.

Don't see it if you’re expecting Lin-Manuel. He’s not there every night.

Critic Reviews (13)

The New York Times
February 12th, 2019

“Mostly improvised and entirely delightful hip-hop musical...If the words and action are unfailingly surprising, the music is more predictable, mostly bluesy chords that allow the improvisers to spin out noodles of melody...’Freestyle’ paradoxically soared when it took a breather from its giddy high spirits...And yet it is within the limits of improv, extremely tight, so that you never worry you will wind up watching the cast fall...The real secret...is the cast’s commitment to deep attentiveness.”
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The Hollywood Reporter
February 12th, 2019

“This wondrous collective delivers hilarious improvisational comedy, only in rhyme and with music...Their ability to transform suggestions into complex, rapid-fire rapping, spoken-word passages and full-blown musical numbers is simply mind-blowing...The verses were filled with amusing one-liners...Directed by Kail...the show proves fast, furious, funny and wildly entertaining. It is also blissfully free from distractions.”
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The Observer
February 12th, 2019

“So brilliant, so ephemeral. The world’s best stenographer couldn’t keep up with the rapid-flow of newly minted, slangy couplets and internal rhyme chains...If it seems like an impossible...feat, creating songs and vignettes...despite the fact that the building materials were supplied that instant, well…the boys have help...But they still have to slot in new words and narrative on a dime, keep to the beat, strain to maintain the euphony and be funny...Night of lyrical, comical, syncopated genius.”
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The Washington Post
February 12th, 2019

“’Freestyle Love Supreme’ is the brainchild of Miranda...It’s a delightfully wit-laced evening of comedy rap devised on the spot by a tight cadre of performers, backed by a pair of equally deft instrumentalists...The fast-thinking geniuses who turn audience suggestions into hilarious, rapid-fire rhyme leave you feeling happy...The show is reinvented at every outing, and the performers so seamlessly transform even the most absurd ideas into rapped stories.”
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Entertainment Weekly
February 12th, 2019

“A unique blend of improvisational theater and hip-hop music...Due to the very nature of improv, no two performances of ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ will be exactly the same...That variance is further enhanced by the changes in lineups during shows...The creative performers on stage never miss a chance to turn something into a musical moment...With such a style, there’s no such thing as dead air.”
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AM New York
February 12th, 2019

“A quirky, high-energy, all-male vocal ensemble that combined improvisational comedy with hip-hop...The 75-minute show consisted of spontaneous riffs and impressively elaborate raps based on audience suggestions...The improvised rapping was both verbally sharp and musically robust, with the lead vocalists aided by human percussive effects and keyboardists providing bass and melody, while the tone alternated between broadly comic and genuinely heartfelt.”
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Theatermania
February 12th, 2019

“It's easy to dismiss all of this as dorky boys performing party tricks, but the fact that each show is devised on the spot makes ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ the only rapid-response musical theater off-Broadway, with the content literally coming from the things the viewers and performers are thinking about...It's exhilarating to encounter lyrics that are as fresh as this morning's bread, and even more delicious.”
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BroadwayWorld
February 13th, 2019

“The only part of ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ that doesn't bounce off an audience response comes at the very beginning when four voices announce a ‘mic check’...Fast and funny...Although the quick riffs off of topics such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's recent ‘bad guy’ presentation and the headlines concerning Jeff Bezos provide great laughs it's the enormous trust and teamwork on display that makes ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ such a pleasure to watch.”
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