The Green Room NYC Reviews and Tickets

57%

(6 Reviews)

Positive

33%

Mixed

50%

Negative

17%

Members say

Cliched, Entertaining, Disappointing, Excruciating, Indulgent

About the Show

This new musical takes a look at the lives of four best friends in a college theater department who dream of making it in New York.

From the show:

Not since A Chorus Line and The Phantom of the Opera has there been such a rousing musical that tells the backstage story of the actors and their career aspirations in theater. Harkening to Sondheim's cult classic and oft-analyzed Merrily We Roll Along, THE GREEN ROOM takes us to a college theatre green room where a group of friends dream of being NOT on Broadway but Off-Broadway! We hitch a ride onto the journey of a group of four best friends in college who dream of making it in New York. John, Cliff, Anna and Divonne live out complicated lives in their college theatre department. A dream in their hand, a life to be led, what will happen to these four when life finds them in The Green Room.

Member Reviews (6)

Promising?, Underdeveloped, Indulgent, Cliched

See it if you want to see a collection of okay songs performed by very earnest (and fairly talented) young actors.

Don't see it if you want a book that makes sense at all. The plot had more holes in it than a whorehouse. And most of the jokes were worse than that.

Banal, Disappointing, Cliched

See it if you relate to young aspiring actors

Don't see it if you are expecting a mature show with depth

Critic Reviews (3)

October 10th, 2019

David Barbour

I'll say this for 'The Green Room': There isn't a single moment that appears to have any connection with real life; that's something you don't see every day
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October 3rd, 2019

Joel Benjamin

"These four characters are, unfortunately, not interesting enough to fill a 90-minute musical, especially one that covers territory better served by other shows like 'A Chorus Line,' 'Fame 'and 'Merrily We Roll Along,' all superior to the earnest, but predictable 'Green Room.'"
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September 27th, 2019

Samuel L. Leiter

"Cheesily produced, cliché-riddled, creakily written, and cartoonishly performed…While…Pelletier's mostly generic score, with acknowledged nods to…Sondheim and…Larson, is the show's most promising element, this cast-okay when singing harmony-lacks the chops to do the tougher ones much justice."
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