Only Gold NYC Reviews and Tickets
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See it if Maybe the next “Hamilton”! Just an amazing show! A moving story told in dance and song A gorgeous cast.
Don't see it if You don’t like music or dance ( every moment on stage). You don’t want to be moved. You don’t like sparkly costumes or amazing sexy dancing.
See it if you want to be uplifted by a great story told through dance, song and narration-the cast, orchestra, choreography, sound and lights are tops
Don't see it if only deducted a point for a crackling speaker at one point. See this show.
See it if You want to see something different with a great cast!
Don't see it if U haven't already, it closed.
See it if You love inventive choreography and beautiful, talented dancers.
Don't see it if You’re looking for a strong book musical or not keen on dance heavy shows. Read more
See it if You want to see what should go onto a Broadway venue. Dancing shows imagination.
Don't see it if You are not into a romantic story
See it if you love dance. If you don't love dance, you will after seeing this show. The production is over-the-top gorgeous. An amazing show.
Don't see it if Plot and dialog are more important than movement. The plot, lyrics, and dialog are serviceable but it is the dancing that will blow you away
See it if you enjoy a story told through expressive dance - that's what the show is about. It is flashy and a feast for your eyes.
Don't see it if you want to see what we now consider traditional musical. It will likely not be for you if do not like dancing or not like Nash's music. Read more
See it if You love dancing and brilliant choreography because that’s the star of the show.
Don't see it if You like book musicals and complex stories more than dancing.
Critic Reviews (8)
"In 'Only Gold' the simplistic story and trite dialogue drag the dancing down. Perhaps the authors spent too much time listening to their hearts and not enough to organs higher and lower."
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" 'Only Gold' captures the magic of old Broadway, but with a contemporary take on balletic choreography and a sharply crafted score, altogether making this resonant story about love and the time we dedicate to it extraordinarily refreshing."
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It's the perfect setup for a Rudolf Friml operetta from 1922, with script notes from Barbara Cartland, and what co-authors Andy Blankenbuehler and Ted Malawer were thinking of is anyone's guess. The script is loaded with woozily uplifting aphorisms like, "It's hard, isn't it? To listen to that voice deep inside of you." Or this: "If your heart called out, first a whisper, then a scream...would you listen?...Next to this, John Logan's book for Moulin Rouge sounds like something whipped up by the entire Académie Française.
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"It’s all such a silly, warmed-over pile of clichés. The text – the pretext – merely serves to distract us from some captivating, if relentless dance numbers: two dozen in all."
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" 'Only Gold' is polished and charming and thoroughly enjoyable, and the dancing is killer. That’s more than enough."
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“ 'Only Gold,' tries to squeeze a third couple into that musical-theater formula — and it produces a very unfocused and confusing first act."
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“ 'Only Gold,' at MCC Theater, brings a surge of energy, such as one needs to become a woke person. Woke, in this case, means listening to your heart regardless of what society may dictate."
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A cast of 20. An original story, not based on a book or movie. Plenty of dancing. Few modern musicals have all these things, and that Only Gold does indicates the breadth of its ambition. Set in Paris in 1928, the show features an ensemble in near-constant motion on an art deco–styled stage with a long, winding staircase whose banister extends into a circular fixture suspended above the stage amid a sky of globular lights. In design and concept it’s a very ambitious project indeed. Or maybe it wasn’t ambitious enough, because despite the glamorous set and costumes and a cast of fan favorites from theater, TV and music, Only Gold lacks an essential component: a cohesive story of any consequence.
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