Happy Days NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (14)
See it if You loved the t.v. show, like light hearted family fun
Don't see it if You are sad and lonely type person
See it if You enjoyed the tv show.
Don't see it if You're into edgy and modern.
See it if You like perfect fifths, and short a capella blips. If you like high energy shows
Don't see it if You don't like Happy Days the old show
See it if As a divorcing woman, I dragged my friend of the same kind and we enjoyed it to the fullest. It is inspiring
Don't see it if Cannot see why not
See it if You like high energy shows with very few ensemble members. And if you like Happy Days the show.
Don't see it if You don't like high energy shows.
See it if You are looking for a family-friendly show.
Don't see it if If you are not a fan of pc content.
Critic Reviews (27)
"Samuel Beckett’s bleak but compassionate play is being given a witty, compelling production at The Flea...As Willie, Shalhoub has a total of maybe ten minutes of activity in the two hours of the play; this is the Winnie show. Nevertheless, he manages to be hysterical, memorable, a spot-on impersonation of a member of your family...The production is the closest we’ll get to a sunny Beckett."
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"This is a straightforward, respectful mounting that follows most of Beckett’s requirements...While it’s important to convey the tedium of Winnie’s endless days in a world where the sun never sinks and sleep is incessantly interrupted by the raucous ringing of a bell, the audience itself shouldn’t feel the dullness; this, however, especially in act one, is what happens. Ms. Adam’s portrayal of this now iconic role, while far from a failure, misses being a triumph and falls into the category of "respectable.""
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"'Happy Days' is a winning offering, though its excellence can sometimes seem effortful, from the pebbly detail of Takeshi Kata’s set to the unrelenting brightness of Tom Ontiveros’s lights to Adams’s practiced performance, in which she cycles through a considerable array of grins, grimaces, puckers and moues, her eyes rolling merrily in their sockets like twinned ping-pong balls...It’s clear from their ample enjoyment that both these actors love, honour and cherish the work."
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"Director Andrei Belgrader understands the precarious balance of tragedy and comedy in Beckett’s work. Moreover, he has unearthed a horror that I’ve always sensed underneath the surface of Beckett’s plays but have never seen it brought to light before with such blinding clarity...That final devastating vision of long term marriage and aging, as the day — and their life together — crawl toward an inexorable end, is a truth almost too blinding to behold."
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"Happy Days is not a play for everyone. It takes it’s time demonstrating the rules of existence that can be at times unnerving with little punches of laughter. It is worth making a trip to The Flea if just to see Adam’s performance. It slowly crawls under your skin and emotionally smacks you in the back of the head. Shaloub is excellent in his smatterings of stage time."
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"Like any durable masterpiece, 'Happy Days' can feel different over time as the viewer’s perspective on mortality morphs, and everyone owes themselves a renewed encounter with it every twenty years or so. The pride of this production, so attentively directed by Belgrader, resides in the way it revivifies the play’s everlasting relevance."
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"Winnie, like all of us, is being buried alive by time. But while she has her Willie semi-sentient by her side, it is another happy day. This richly inhabited production, suffused with the tender solace of human connection in the existential void, gives us a less ironic reason to rejoice."
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"Despite the script’s bleak metaphor of two lives caught in an existentialist void, the viewer cannot help but feel a kinship to Winnie and Willie, soldiering on as best they can, victims of an unfeeling fate that that they don’t understand and cannot change."
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