"The acting is excellent, and the story is romantic and tough, but also in the realm of the show biz cliché of performers eventually going separate ways...The musical achieves added poignancy by being concerned with the blatant police prejudice against gays that led to the Stonewall revolt...The show unfolds in different time frames, and some of it is confusing...Friedman keeps the plot moving, but the story, for all its sincerity, becomes maudlin and drawn out at times."
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"A snapshot of times past featuring a collection of songs in the spirit of the waspish, linguistically playful constructions of Coward, Porter, and Sondheim. The music is punctuated by frustratingly abbreviated dramatic scenes...The most interesting stories at the heart of this play­­­­­­ go completely unexplored, as do a flurry of plot and psychological developments...There are a lot of ghosts...but they need more life and dramatic room to breathe to make us care about them."
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“’A slick and gorgeous new musical about a forgotten sliver of gay history...'Midnight at the Never Get’ is a cabaret concert mediation on impossible love, revolution, music, and memory; easily the best new musical I have seen this season so far, Sam Bolen gives a knockout performance as a gay cabaret singer recalling his romance in the smoky backroom haze of New York’s 1960s underground nightclub scene. This gorgeous show is not to be missed.”
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"'Midnight at the Never Get' celebrates cabaret to tell a gay love story, and sweetly and unexpectedly transcends its limitations with poignant observations about gay culture...Director Max Friedman and choreographer Andrew Palermo manage stage movement of the two characters on the tidy York Theatre stage so that the 90-minute show neither stalls nor speeds ahead."
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"It unfolds like an intimate cabaret show but is in fact a theater piece with an engaging plot. Midnight skillfully weaves the best of both genres into a delightful and heartfelt 90-minute experience of story and song. Music, book and lyrics are masterfully crafted together...'Midnight at the Never Get' is wonderfully engaging and highly recommended. See it, then see it again (I did)."
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"A smartly written, enchanting, and rich musical with deeply drawn and highly likable characters...It is a tale told on several levels and each blends into the other...The music by Sonnenblick is marvelous and you could pick any famous singer who could have performed the melodious and well-written tunes in the show...The play, smartly directed by Max Friedman is well-written and at first deceiving...It gets deeper and deeper as the story rolls on, though, and very complicated in the end."
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"The variety of musical styles kept the evening interesting with torch songs, Gershwin-esque ballads, and the wickedly ironic 'My Boy In Blue.' Mr. Bolen's vocal range handled the full spectrum of styles, and he and Mr. Cohen blended seamlessly throughout the show. Woven into the fabric of the songs and the narrative are grim reminders of how precarious life could be for a gay man in NYC in the '60s...Delightful and thought-provoking...Don't miss it."
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“Sonnenblick’s deeply touching book, music, and lyrics allow you to follow the romance between Arthur...and Trevor his muse...Bolen and Cohen, are incredibly talented. Sonnenblick’s score is catchy, smart, an homage to a time gone by...The script is touching, warm, real, and moving especially in the end when he breaks our hearts...Friedman’s direction keeps us guessing and doesn’t try to trivialize the emotions that are bound to affect an audience.”
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