The Vanity NYC Reviews and Tickets

46%

(27 Ratings)

Positive

19%

Mixed

22%

Negative

59%

Members say

Excruciating, Funny, Slow, Disappointing, Confusing

About the Show

Theatre Row presents this stylized, darkly humorous, musical melodrama inspired by Oscar Wilde's 'The Portrait of Dorian Gray."

It's 1947 and Julian Gray, a beautiful but sheltered young Plantation heir, decides to start a new life in Hollywood. He finds himself the object of all sorts of attention when the great director Hilton Wheeler casts him as the lead in a major motion picture. Julian falls in love with Stella, a makeup girl on the set of his first film. But all hell breaks loose when he inherits a mysterious Victorian vanity table, which turns out to be possessed by a powerful demon. Julian is offered the chance to maintain his good looks indefinitely, as long as he agrees to forsake love in favor of hedonistic pleasure.

Show-Score Member Reviews (27)

Disappointing, Excruciating, Slow, Tedious, Trite

See it if you have no knowledge of the story/film, or if someone is paying you large sums to see it, and buying you dinner.

Don't see it if You have anything at all better to do. I must admit I left at the interval. It was intellectual/emotional self-flaggelation.

Cliched, Funny, Entertaining

See it if you're free and looking for something to watch

Don't see it if you want to watch something perfect

Ambitious, Fluffy, Self-indulgent, Vapid, Unremarkable

See it if You want to see a actors trying their hardest to make the best of a mediocre script, and music that is less than memorable.

Don't see it if A script that has any actual meaning, which the show tries hard to have. Also, if you like your music to integrate cleanly into the scenes.

Cliched, Insipid, Overrated, Indulgent, Slow

See it if you want a few laughs uttered by a high Queen. Nothing else is dimly funny nor well written

Don't see it if don't mind wasting time

Clever, Great acting, Entertaining, Great singing

See it if If you're in the mood for something offbeat

Don't see it if Your idea of cutting edge is Cats

During previews

Cliched, Clever, Entertaining, Funny, Ambitious

See it if If you enjoy over-the-top acting, clever plotting, then attend. Although the parts are better than the whole.

Don't see it if You can't put up with some cliches, somewhat miss-matched music.

During previews

Banal, Confusing, Dizzying, Excruciating, Must see

See it if you can enjoy bad theatre when it's That Bad.

Don't see it if you don't like seeing a talented cast trapped performing a jaw-droppongly bad script and score. Think "Noises Off" without the wit.

During previews

Silly, Insipid, Bad singing, Juvenile, Disappointing

See it if You are related to the cast. Repetitious and silly. Fortunately there was an intermission so escape possible- many left.

Don't see it if You like good music, a decent script or intelligent humor. Read more

Trailer

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