The Golden Bride NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (102)
See it if You like operettas, large ensembles that are well-cast and directed, tuneful and exuberant theater, simple plot that's touching. I loved it.
Don't see it if You want serious drama, don't like supertitles, are looking for a big plot, don't like old-fashioned, Yiddish Theater, romance, some farce.
See it if You want to see a fine wonderfully talented & engaging cast perform a rare & ageless piece of theatre history, a fun fully realized operetta
Don't see it if You don't like operettas, things Yiddish or subtitles, charming or historical entertainments performed by a first-rate cast & orchestra.
See it if you love operettas and some great young voices. Also, if you enjoy the 20's silent film era. A must see.
Don't see it if you don't like reading subtitles as it is in Yiddish
See it if You don't have to be Jewish! The score and the staging are heavenly. Cameron Johnson, the lead baritone, is excellent and adorable
Don't see it if A trip back to the Yiddish theater in NY a century ago, Not just a period piece -- entertaining musical theater. Cameron Johnson is a star!
See it if you enjoy great singing and music like romantic comedies
Don't see it if you mind reading the supertitles don't like period pieces
See it if you want the rare opportunity to see a faithful revival of a classic Yiddish musical, in its original language & w/high production values.
Don't see it if you really object to supertitles. Otherwise, this is a truly enchanting & enjoyable experience.
See it if Want 2 see something out of the ordinary, Can appreciate that uniqueness &/or go with your mind open or Ur a fan of Musical Theatre History!
Don't see it if You find it impossible to watch Foreign movies with subtitles, are averse to shows that may challenge your understanding or are Xenophobic!
See it if Captivating, energetic revival of a classic Yiddish theater operetta from 1923. Vocals were out of this world; cast exuded joy & delight.
Don't see it if There are English and Russian subtitles projected above; personally, this enhanced my enjoyment. Plot was pure silliness; a fun evening!
Critic Reviews (29)
"'The Golden Bride,' in Yiddish with English and Russian subtitles, looks like a tri-lingual hit...One great joy of this production is the exuberant 14-piece orchestra filling the theater with melodies that had 1923 audiences dancing in the aisles. Equally enthralling were the glorious operatically trained voices..'The Golden Bride' is a perfect holiday gift. You don’t have to be Jewish to love it. You just have to enjoy melody and charm."
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"Meticulously reconstructed the silly script and the sumptuous score with a sublime 14-piece orchestra and a superb 20-member cast...What may surprise people is how delightful it all is: the Yiddish humor, the vaudeville-like gags, the rich mix of music – klezmer, waltz, opera, Russian ballads, comic numbers – the cast’s easy mastery of a foreign language...'The Golden Bride' offers food for thought and enjoyment."
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"This aspirational-fantasy story of Russian shtetl Jews emigrating to America is a fascinating period piece of great historical and cultural interest, as well as a robustly acted and brilliantly sung spectacle of theatrical joy, simultaneously humble and elegant, goofy and heartfelt."
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"The confection—with a lighter-than-air score, a charming libretto, and slyly funny lyrics—essentially takes period uptown romantic musical comedy tropes and transfers them to a milieu that would have appealed to Lower East Side audiences of the day. The result is a slightly loopy and always lovely-sounding show that also happens to be a great example of cultural appropriation...A top-notch physical production completes the picture for this sterling revisitation to 'Golden Bride.'"
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“The greatest achievement of co-directors Bryna Wasserman and Motl Didner can be summed up in a very famous three-word phrase that’s often violated: Trust the material...Bless libretto and music editor Michael Ochs for unearthing and reconstructing the materials so we can now revel in them. Smart, too, of the production to employ Zalmen Mlotek as conductor, for no one today understands this form, era and music better than he.”
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"'The Golden Bride' is absolutely delightful! It is an upbeat, spirited operetta featuring first class performers. The acting and singing are top-notch. All the actors are superior entertainers."
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"In general there is a flatness to this production...For all its professionalism, 'The Golden Bride' feels like it was designed to be as inoffensive and square as possible—Yiddish-light, one might call it—for its mostly older Jewish audience. That said, as a bit of quaint musical entertainment, the show works."
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"The cast is superb and their infinite vocal talent is allowed to shine under the aegis of conductor and musical director Zalmen Mlotek with choreography and musical staging by Merete Muenter. The full-bodied singing and dancing accompanied by a live orchestra in 'The Golden Bride' is an especially rare treat in Off-Broadway theater today."
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