The New Yorkers NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (82)
See it if you like Cole Porter, appreciate corny humor, and enjoy fun, fast-paced, musical numbers preformed by a talented cast. Just delightful.
Don't see it if only like serious theater or deep meaning. Worth seeing just for the glorious Encores orchestra.
See it if You are among the people who happen to like New York, and want to see an over-the-top comedy about some 1930s New Yorkers.
Don't see it if You haven't the patience for old musicals, don't like NYC.
See it if you love the American Song Book or enjoy music that makes you want to sing along, tap your feet & leave the theater feeling great.
Don't see it if you hate musicals. The plot makes no sense being an excuse to sing and dance with no redeeming social value.
See it if 1930 is back again. the patter song. the topsy turvy the corny jokes,the songs the era.. all brought back in true Encores tradition...
Don't see it if if you need the here and now. This is for those who remember or want to. The Audience was enthralled
See it if You love Cole Porter, are curious about musicals from the 30s, love great singing and dancing, want to laugh and experience some giddiness.
Don't see it if You're a musical theatre purist, as it's a reconstruction that had to be fairly freely reinvented; if you don't like topical references.
See it if You love Cole Porter, frothy fun, and sheer nonsense. You remember Jimmy Durante.
Don't see it if You hate Cole Porter, frothy fun, sheer nonsense, and Jimmy Durante. Read more
See it if You want to hear Cole Porter and take in a piece of delightful theater history.
Don't see it if You are not a fan of the "Encore's" style of presentation or period musicals. Read more
See it if You want to see Encores doing exactly what it was created to do- rescue old shows lost to time. Fabulous cast and orchestra.
Don't see it if You expect a great book or aren't interested in seeing an old show, warts and all. The Jimmy Durante songs are head scratchers . .
Critic Reviews (13)
“A lark of a racy musical…Not meant to be one of the series’ immaculately reconstructed reclamations. Given the unforced spirit of director John Rando’s frolic and the preposterous vaudeville numbers interrupting what exists of a story, authenticity is hardly a concern here…The importance, besides the surprise of such casual debauchery in 1930, is the music…Mostly, we can revel in the cleverness of Porter’s lyrics.”
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“Rando’s direction cunningly keeps a sense of giddy intoxication bubbling through the proceedings…The scintillating Porter songs, played with masterful appreciation by the 29-piece orchestra, are the production’s raison d’être. The script ties them together in fanciful, if sometimes inane, fashion, and it’s also heavily peppered with scattershot jokes. Many of them land, some of them don’t. But when they don’t, it’s no calamity. The performers move happily on, taking the audience with them.”
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"It’s one of the loosest 'book musicals' ever...The Fields book, dealing with some fourteen principal characters...is somewhat hard to follow. But it’s full of comical surprises and serves perfectly well in supporting Cole Porter’s 18 songs...Of course, with such flimsy structure, it required a top-notch cast to keep it afloat and, once again, casting directors Binder and Bohon have rounded up a superb group of gifted artists."
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“Unapologetically silly, but refreshingly tuneful…Despite its obvious shortcomings, ‘The New Yorkers’ wound up being a lark and a half…Damned if this one isn’t genuinely funny, or perhaps it was the stellar cast of Broadway regulars here who really seemed to know how to make the hoary jokes work…Part of the fun of this version of ‘The New Yorkers’ lay in the fact that the cast knew exactly how ridiculous the show was, and acted accordingly."
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“The highly talented cast of 31 players acts, sings, and dances through an effervescent tale…‘The New Yorkers’ is hilarious, extremely clever, and filled with spectacular wordplay and some of the most sparkling lyrics in recent memory…The 30-piece Encores! orchestra beautifully performs Porter’s sophisticated melodies and lush, new arrangements…This is a splashy entertainment for fans of musical comedy and the Great American Songbook."
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