Notes From Now NYC Reviews and Tickets
About the Show
Production Covid-19 Safety ProtocolsShow-Score Member Reviews (26)
See it if you love musical reviews, want a show of the times, looking for a show commenting on the now, want a nice balance of humor and drama.
Don't see it if You don't like showcase shows, don't want to talk about current issues, don't like newer works. Read more
See it if you want to see some terrific songs sung by a talented cast. The show gets stronger as it goes and the ending numbers are truly moving.
Don't see it if you don't enjoy a cabaret type of experience. This is not a musical with a book.
See it if Great show, the songs are sand and some are to funny laughed alot and smile.
Don't see it if It was big show or a story.
See it if You don't mind a collection of unrelated songs, but each thoughtfully written, many of which will speak to you, executed beautifully.
Don't see it if You don't like a collection of unrelated songs, no story, no plot. Can't appreciate this work for what it is- an affirmation of spirit.
See it if You want to see a collection of well-written songs that speak to these times.
Don't see it if You want a book musical or a solid plot.
See it if U want 2be entertained by 7talented performers w some compelling hits, set in 2020 lockdown,on themes of resilience&renewal.Great band&set.
Don't see it if U expect a musical with a traditional plot. This is a more themed concert where some lyrics are better than others. Read more
See it if Want to hear great voices sing about times recently passed ... we hope
Don't see it if You're not interested in how millenials endured during covid isolation
See it if Well, you can't as it closed. But the cast was excellent. The songs were uneven in quality. Some were quite clever; some were moving.
Don't see it if You like shows with a plot. This was all songs. They were loosely about the past couple of years but varied in quality and relevance. Read more
Critic Reviews (3)
"Director and choreographer Billy Bustamante helms a competent staging that gives each song due deference while leaving little dead air between numbers...While I have no doubt that many of these songs will find their way into audition binders, as a theatrical venture 'Notes From Now' is doomed to wither like wisteria in June. Already, with mandates and masks falling everywhere, it feels an awful lot like 'Notes From Then' — an artifact of the theater's lingering obsession with Covid."
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"4/5 stars...A good and even adventurous 90 minutes devoted to songs about the relentless Covid-19 takeover and related subjects...Someone needs to explain why Mills, one of today’s best songwriters, has yet to arrive on Broadway...Although the Prospect-ers might have arranged their timely songbook as a straightforward concert, they’ve given it a lovely production...Billy Bustamante is the director/choreographer, and has he done a beautiful job moving the seven players up and down and in and around with grace and grit."
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"It seems impossible that each and every person watching the poignant musical revue 'Notes from Now'...won’t see themselves somehow reflected on stage...This collection of 17 songs—inventively staged by director and choreographer Billy Bustamante—speaks eloquently to the trials and tribulations of modern life, most especially in the era of COVID...Each of the songs are immeasurably enhanced by the extraordinary work of a spectacular six-piece mini-orchestra led by music director Sean Peter Forte."
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