The Whitney Album
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The Whitney Album NYC Reviews and Tickets

43%
(7 Ratings)
Positive
29%
Mixed
14%
Negative
57%
Members say
Indulgent, Confusing, Slow, Excruciating, Ambitious

A meditation on an artist's relationship to the life and death of Whitney Houston.

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Show-Score Member Reviews (7)

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85 Reviews | 31 Followers
74
Great acting, Great singing, Intimate, Enchanting

See it if Super intimate experience. It’s not just a play…it’s a performance that uses so many mediums to tell the story.

Don't see it if You are looking for a big flashy show with lots of cast members. Read more

658 Reviews | 103 Followers
72
Vibing, singing, feeling

See it if Experimental Black women energy ritual with a splash of Whitney Houston. Some singing and audience interaction.

Don't see it if No plot, no real format, moves onto different things. 1.5 hours; no intermission. Read more

314 Reviews | 186 Followers
66
Great staging, Indulgent, Ritual intended, Great harmony skill, Siren voice

See it if Into mesmerizing singing & audience participation. Ending gets better, when ppl are invited to form a circle to learn some harmony. 1.5 hrs.

Don't see it if No plot. 2 actresses doing imagined fragments of Whitney’s life & inner world, with 1 make musician. I don’t know the star’s life well, so.. Read more

60 Reviews | 3 Followers
35
Slow, Indulgent, Excruciating, Disappointing, Confusing

See it if you are interested in non-traditional theatre, theatre that is intentionally trying to push boundaries, and theatre created by black women

Don't see it if you want something that feels like theatre, has a discernible message, or feels like it is more for the audience than the playwright

76 Reviews | 13 Followers
27
Ambitious, Confusing

See it if You like spoken word feminist interpretation theater

Don't see it if You are expecting this to be a show about Whitney Houston or her music in the main

208 Reviews | 39 Followers
15
Slow, Excruciating, Indulgent, Insipid, Overrated

See it if You have very low expectations. This “ show “ doesn’t make much sense.

Don't see it if Expect a storyline or something close to it. You will leave totally confused. It feels like a work in progress.

263 Reviews | 108 Followers
12
Nice lighting, Pointless, Meandering, Bad singing, Self-congratulatory

See it if You just want to see some nice lighting. I would have given the show a 0 had it not been for that.

Don't see it if You are expecting a cohesive piece of theatre. This is a lecture, looped singing, scenes from a random play and kumbaya singing. Read more

Critic Reviews (3)

The New York Times
June 15th, 2023

“The show’s shuffle of forms...can feel like an especially soulful, high-concept record that’s more evocative than linear. But its piled-up ideas, many of them couched in esoteric language that’s not easy to parse in a 90-minute performance, ultimately don’t cohere into a moving or insightful whole.”
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Theatermania
June 12th, 2023

“You’re not likely to find the clean edges of tried-and-true dramatic structure, but it is an admirable and rare example of theatrical theorizing set in motion.”
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New York Stage Review
June 13th, 2023

“The initial information you need on ’The Whitney Album,’ Jillian Walker’s 90-minute presentation... is that it isn’t a play. By turns and sometimes simultaneously, it’s a ritual and/or a lecture...Walker closes her ritual-lecture wrapped in a cliché about people ultimately being important; but exclaiming it, she exudes such charm that only non-believers will resist. She’s a people person. ”
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