I Spy a Spy NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (159)
See it if Great staging and a cast of characters that gives 100% energy performance. Packed a lot of action and strong singing in an intimate venue.
Don't see it if you like more serious, and quieter theatre experience, Read more
See it if you enjoy musical comedies. Fabulous singing of some very clever lyrics accompanied by a live band sitting just to the right of the audience
Don't see it if you don’t have a sense of humor. If you have trouble with stairs, check with the theater before ordering tickets Read more
See it if you want to see a show with great production values, great singing and great acting. The music is standard Broadway type.
Don't see it if you need a musical with a compelling plot clearly structured to make you care about the characters and their outcome.
See it if you enjoy a very funny show with wonderful lyrics and very strange story which actually works. Very relevant to our times. Great staging.
Don't see it if you like a traditional comedy or drama. This show's plot is all over the place but is fantastically funny. Read more
See it if You like a musical with many great singers and actors
Don't see it if You prefer dramas
See it if you enjoy musicals about NYC, immigrant stories, or can enjoy making fun of stereotypes.
Don't see it if you have no sense of humor, dislike accents, or stories about immigrants and the "American dream." Read more
See it if enjoy complicated comedies re exchanging social places. You’ve clocked time in a paper hat industry. Affectionate ode to immigrant life/work
Don't see it if you expect ppl who deliver meals, drive cabs, clean facilities, & run local restaurants to sing only about how miserable they are Read more
See it if you're open to something surprising and weird. Bright production and sweet sentiment. Voices are spectacular. Some clever staging.
Don't see it if Needed to be more fun and a little long and rambling. Might be too quirky for some.
Critic Reviews (4)
"I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, but you're never going to convince me that 'I Spy a Spy' isn't the fruit of a plot by Julian Assange and Russian hackers (assisted, maybe, by Kim Jong Un), aimed at undermining America's theatrical way of life."
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"At a time when there's such turmoil at out borders and disagreement within, it takes a good deal of courage to pen a musical that takes a lighthearted look at immigrations. But Jamie Jackson and So Hee Youn's musical somehow does that with charm and humor."
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"Novelty 12 person cast of caricatures at Theatre at St. Clements includes Russians and spies, the American Dream, and commentaries on the political state of things with love stories too. Some slicing and dicing are in order but it's silly fun and you'll get some laughs and messages."
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"A banal exercise that, for all its upbeat treatment of America's cultural diversity, is little more than an excuse for a mostly witless, farcical farrago about stereotypical, cartoon characters of multiple ethnicities."
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