Notes From Now NYC Reviews and Tickets
About the Show
Production Covid-19 Safety ProtocolsMember Reviews (26)
See it if If you like cabaret that pokes fun at covid related issues.
Don't see it if If you don't like a musical or cabaret.
See it if you would enjoy an evening of song by 7 actors with a little choreography and a set they change. Good lighting, orchestra and humor.
Don't see it if you are looking for a tradtiional musical - this is a set of 17 musical numbers, one after another.
See it if you like a show without a plot but with original songs that have a theme which is relevant to our troubled times.Great lyrics and singing.
Don't see it if you want a show with a plot or a big set or lush music. The songs have wonderful lyrics and are sung well. Costumes and set very simple.
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 want to see a very good, classic "Broadway"-type songs executed by a cast with quality voices
Don't see it if COVID plays long ago outlived their attraction. Or if you need a moving plot. Read more
See it if A song cyle about life during the pandemic. Engaging performers and some good music.
Don't see it if Too long. After a while it became quite repetitive.
See it if You enjoy song cycles and cabaret. Want to hear works from some new voices in the theatre world next to some established voices.
Don't see it if You maybe aren't ready to see shows about COVID related issues yet, or on the other end of the spectrum, have already seen enough of them. Read more
See it if you want to see lots of songs about life with Miss Pandy by a range of emerging songwriting talent; you're okay with a song cycle
Don't see it if you aren't ready for art to engage with COVID; the idea of a song about sourdough starter is too much 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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