Hooked On Happiness: The Musical for a Cooler Planet

See it if If you dont care if a show has a plot or not. Actors try real hard to make this stinko good.

Don't see it if This is not a memorable show experience and nor a show you will remember. Really bad.

See it if You enjoy high school age kids try their best singing song after song.

Don't see it if You are looking for a professional production

See it if You don’t mind a real plot and a middle school production, then this is your school.

Don't see it if You prefer a musical with substance, then run from this musical. It was dreadful!

See it if U are open minded & open hearted to global warming & to young new talent. U like delightful original music, cute songs, & be entertainEd.

Don't see it if U expect a Hal Prince production. This is still green young cast & tiny budget project but sincere & has a great message we all need to hear

Also This is a refreshing delightful musical that I will not review by classic traditional theatrical standards. Instead, I will just rate it by the happiness that I am hooked on after being thoroughly entertained by it & yes, inspired by it too!

It’s a simple story of a high school drama class creating an original musical about the serious issue of climate change that they (the future inheritors of our planet) care about. They were not met with full support/approval of conservative adults.

These young actors are playing as they should to us (the high school audience) in a deliberate feigned amateurish way singing cute songs & dancing energetically in different home made like costumes for different skits. Despite the unpolished & unsophisticated “high school” production, their hearty plead for loving & saving the planet comes through loud & clear. The vitality of youthful energy set to eurythmic Abrams music & the passion of young ideals inspires caring for the planet. Lovable cast!... Read more Read less

See it if There is some talent to see - some - and the musicians did well but I can’t recommend that you give it your time.

Don't see it if Don’t see it. Unless there is someone in the show you should support.

See it if You want to know more about how high schoolers see climate change. The Greta Thunberg approach is simple, misguided but gets an A for effort

Don't see it if You think climate change is a hoax, believe there is such a thing as clean coal and these silly kids today are just spoiled & unappreciative

Also The creative force driving this musical was to speak directly to the adults in the room. But the supportive audience that sat through this musical is not the one that must be convinced. It's the movers & the shakers: the scions of global industry, cyberspace, politics, Wall Street, that need to get their act together & filter all future decisions thru the climate change adaptation lens.

"Mother Earth has got the blues" - yes she does. But perhaps a follow-up to this musical should be a play that explores how adaptation to climate change would affect people. The issues-divide is so wide: guilt in the first and survival in the third. We need to reach a point where first & third worlds blend into a new second world, then we'll be closer to living peacefully and harmoniously on this planet we all call home.

This musical is a challenge to theatre to help to come up with a pleasant & fool-proof argument that will reverse blind self-interest to strip hypocrisy bare. We're halfway there.... Read more Read less

See it if You want to see a badly plotted show, with actors who try to carry it, with their choreography and singing. Very cheeky and topical.

Don't see it if You want a show that draws you in and holds your attention for the story.

Also A musical about high school students performing a musical about global warming, felt like it was a high school performance, and if you've seen some of those, they're not always the best. I liked the actors and dancing though... Read more Read less

See it if a sweet, earnest but thin on content and easily forgettable show sounds like a good way to spend your time.

Don't see it if I would recommend passing on this one.

Also The (mostly young) actors/singers tried very hard and some were particularly good, but this show was simply too simplistic and one-note and really just a string of songs about climate change. After 3 or 4 numbers, it got very repetitious, despite the singers/actors best efforts. Enjoyed the 3-piece band accompanying the singers, who played a number of familiar songs for the audience before the show started.... Read more Read less

See it if you would like “High School Musical” with a social consciousness. A cast of young people provide Millenials’ view on climate change.

Don't see it if bothered by an informal setting with a low-budget cheesy school play with young people taking a positive tone on discussing the environment.

See it if You like polar bears...

Don't see it if You don’t like your polar bears to tap. But common! Everyone loves a tapping polar bear.