See it if you understand that songs and music can be dialog. You want brilliant curating of a large songbook to tell a sad, melancholy story w/rebirth
Don't see it if you need a spoken book to "explain" things to you. Sometimes songs and dance can be as effective or more effective than dialog. Read more
See it if you love a true musical with lovely costumes, staging, dancing, and a live orchestra!
Don't see it if you want a performance with a lot of dialogue.
See it if You enjoy the old world of musical theater with the best singing and dancing you can see even on Broadway. What talent!!! Best tap number!
Don't see it if YOu need a hard story line plot and can't just kick back and enjoy the flow of music so perfectly orchestrated. With a somewhat story....
See it if You love to sit and listen to lots of fantastically sung songs, and watch some outstanding dance routines. The tap numbers are extraordinary
Don't see it if You’re looking for a straight play. This is a high tempo song and dance fare from start to finish.
See it if You love vintage songs leading a path through history.
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See it if an intimate setting with live jazz band and a setting - while sparse - tells the story. Talented singers and dancers up close and personal.
Don't see it if You absolutely can say with a straight face that Hoagy's tunes don't stir something in the soul and heart.
See it if you like talented young people singing & dancing beautifully. The show captures the periods very well in dress, style, movement. I loved it.
Don't see it if you expect a plot or information about Carmichael. This is not a bio. The thin "plots" don't really make sense. But it is a retro delight.
See it if Delightful Music with great voices and a wonderful band appeals to you regardless of the time frame of the period piece
Don't see it if If you are only in to rap or heavy metal the timelessness of this will not appeal to you but you will be missing out on a delightful show
"You can enjoy the soundtrack of a generation that has now mostly left us in 'Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust Road,' a lovely tribute to a gifted songwriter."
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Much of the time, the show provides the often-delightful shock of the unfamiliar: Conceived by Susan H. Schulman, Michael Lichtefeld, and Lawrence Yurman, with an assist from Carmichael's son, Hoagy Bix, it is a heaping selection of songs, not just the expected hits, that demonstrates the composer's staying power through several decades of pop music.
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"I'll heartily recommend 'Stardust Road' as a swell earful of Hoagy Carmichael, including at least two dozen listenable songs you probably don't know, beguilingly sung and abetted by a couple of delightful choreographic moments."
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"Hoagy Carmichael’s 'Stardust Road' goes far attesting to his greatness, though not far enough."
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Conceived by director Susan H. Schulman, choreographer Michael Lichtefeld and musical arranger Lawrence Yurman, and developed with Hoagy Bix Carmichael (Hoagy’s son), "Hoagy Carmichael’s Stardust Road" succeeds not by showing the audience another “And Then I Wrote” compendium, but by allowing the endless riches of the Carmichael songwriting catalogue to say it with music. We are treated to five extended “parts” where we meet seven characters, all friends, as they traverse the decades from the 1920’s to the 1950’s, through every high point and every heartache.
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"The cast of seven, sings and swings and taps their hearts out, everyone getting their solo to shine, and all backed by a multi-talented six-piece band that flows effortlessly from song to song."
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"The York Theatre Company’s Hoagy Carmichael’s Stardust Road, does not take us on a biographical journey. Instead, it tells the story of seven friends in five scenes spanning four decades."
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