Daddy Long Legs NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (366)
See it if You want at see a tender love story played out by excellent actors.
Don't see it if You don't like exquisite singing and staging of a tender play.
See it if you like classic, feel-good stories that are full of charm, with gorgeous music and 2 amazing actors.
Don't see it if you have no heart
See it if you want cheap tickets, great for a date, really sweet, heartwarming show.
Don't see it if SEE THIS SHOW!
See it if An amazing talented duo perform a well written show with a great score. Truly a fine piece of off-broadway.
Don't see it if you have no emotions and feelings
See it if A small, beautifully crafted musical with two amazing performances. You don't want to be moved to tears. You are a hopeless romantic.
Don't see it if You are expecting a big glitzy musical. You don't want to cry. You don't believe in love.
See it if you are a romantic
Don't see it if you want something edgy or modern (this is a story from around 1912)
See it if You enjoy a good love story in an intimate theater setting; two person show; wonderful voices
Don't see it if You want to see a big Broadway production
See it if you would love a simple story told by two wonderful performers, with beautiful voices, in an intimate setting on a lovely set.
Don't see it if you only like big, splashy musicals with lots of production numbers and choreography. This would not be for you!
Critic Reviews (47)
"A feel-good two character musical that does a really fine job of transporting its audience to a gentler time and place. It’s a fairytale of kindness and spirit that ends as a sweet love story...'Daddy Long Legs' is a satisfying change of pace reminding us of times when theater didn’t have to tax the brain or push the envelope."
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“'Daddy Long Legs' is chomping at the bit to have the training wheels removed so it can take off for a big adventure...As it stands, the book here is over written and slightly repetitive...What I wouldn’t give for a couple of sub-plots to thicken the plot. The music it self has great variety. At times these performers make the entire caboodle transcendent. We just don’t need ALL of it."
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"A sweet but too-frequently static, two-actor chamber musical adaptation of Jean Webster’s still-read 1912 epistolary novel...The contrived situation is interesting up to a certain point, after which it becomes a matter of diminishing returns as you wait impatiently for the inevitable resolution...Gordon’s score, while pleasantly melodic and listenable, too often acts as generic underpinning to narrative lyrics, making one song sound like any other."
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"Blessed with a glorious voice, a glowing smile that can quickly turn upside down, and a rare combination of strength and vulnerability, McGinnis practically commands our love and respect..A show that should be a 90-minute heart-tugger instead of a 2 ½-hour tuner that occasionally tests the patience of the mind and the tuchas...Paul Gordon can write wonderful songs...But many of them are filled with little more than minutiae."
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"In a program note for 'Daddy Long Legs,' director John Caird wonders why the 1912 novel on which the musical is based isn’t considered a great American classic. I wonder the opposite – why its problematic premise has inspired a 16-character Broadway play, at least seven movies and now a two-character Off-Broadway musical...None of 'Daddy Long Legs' would work as well without the two performers who constitute the entire cast."
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"Caird’s book and Gordon’s songs are especially effective, making us care, even though we know the outcome. 'Daddy Long Legs' is a moving show, with exquisite arrangements by Gordon and Brad Haak who make pains of the soul vocal in the musical underscoring...Go experience this romantic musical that will touch your heart and remind you of simpler times."
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"McGinnis soon charms us, sweeping us along on her adventures as a college girl-turned-writer…Nolan is as sweetly sympathetic here they help make the most of 'Daddy Long Legs'…The new show is staged effectively…But the letter-by-letter format inevitably leads to too many similar sections, and the authors are mighty lucky to have McGinnis center-stage. With McGinnis and Nolan playing the romance, 'Daddy Long Legs' has charm to spare."
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"Off-Broadway's 'Daddy Long Legs' is an unimaginative miniature employing almost every cliche, musically and dramatically...The story may have been charming in 1912, but it lacks tension and surprise today...Fortunately, Megan McGinnis and Paul Alexander Nolan endow the two roles with wit and rich voice, making this postcard-sized show bearable for an overlong two acts."
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