The House of Setting Sun (Dream Up)
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The House of Setting Sun (Dream Up)
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The House of Setting Sun (Dream Up) NYC Reviews and Tickets

47%
(20 Ratings)
Positive
10%
Mixed
30%
Negative
60%
Members say
Confusing, Slow, Disappointing, Excruciating, Ambitious

About the Show

Part of Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival: In this Jazz-Age musical, the surviving member of a prominent Georgia family invites a fortuneteller to his plantation to divine who killed his long-dead parents.

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Show-Score Member Reviews (20)

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57 Reviews | 13 Followers
85
Entertaining, Original, Great acting, Refreshing, Great singing

See it if You are looking for a well casted musical with great songs and a refreshingly original plot. You like eerie murder mysteries.

Don't see it if You are looking for the normal bells and whistles of Broadway in terms of set, seating, etc.

416 Reviews | 190 Followers
63
Slow, Original, Confusing, Strange, Great singing

See it if you like any musical. storyline is hard to follow and takes place in Savannah. light opera? family strife? mystery? mystical?make sense?

Don't see it if you expect a coherent experience. everyone singing on key. more than a piano. well-defined characters. reason for so many in cast.

62 Reviews | 26 Followers
57
Disappointing, Ambitious

See it if You like new material with potential, enjoy murder mysteries, like history

Don't see it if You want great acting, deep character development, are hard of hearing

393 Reviews | 101 Followers
55
Strangely compelling, Inaudible, Ambitious, Yet clichéd

See it if Patience & ears allow enduring a well-acted yet poorly sung by non-singers inaudible-at-10-feet production with potential &interesting score

Don't see it if Plot matters: game non-singers in over their heads keeping up with a complicated score results in an incomprehensible storyline and ending. Read more

155 Reviews | 46 Followers
55
Confusing, Indulgent, Slow, Ambitious, Great acting

See it if you like operatic singing with a range of the same 6 or 7 notes (great for sleeping) - the cast was talented - some of the voices were great

Don't see it if you can't sit through an unedited story where all the songs sound the same which is amazing because they were written by different people.

162 Reviews | 18 Followers
48
Confusing, Disappointing, Excruciating, Slow, Boring

See it if You simply have to see all New Theater productions to measure their progress

Don't see it if You enjoy musicals and we'll written stories that you can follow along with

360 Reviews | 76 Followers
48
Cliched, Confusing, Excruciating, Insipid, Uninspired

See it if you have the time for a meaningless, unsatisfying adventure in the theatre. Time better spend wandering the neighborhood.

Don't see it if There is really nothing to recommend about this show. Sorry!

89 Reviews | 29 Followers
40
Ambitious, Confusing, Disappointing, Great singing

See it if You enjoy musicals in minor key, entirely accompanied by piano, and you want to see new artists and composers.

Don't see it if You enjoy mainstream musicals, or you're looking for a halfway decent musical. This is not well done.