Disaster! A Musical NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (664)
See it if You like lively music and a show with comedy
Don't see it if You don't like a fun time
See it if you love the music of the 70s, old disaster movies, and beautifully, masterfully produced musical comedies. This show is a delight!
Don't see it if you don't like cheesy humor, silly use of props, or fun.
See it if You simply want to have fun.
Don't see it if You're looking for deep hidden meaning.
See it if you enjoy cheesy 70s music
Don't see it if you don't like spoofs
See it if You like disaster movies like Airplane and Hotel.....campy fun! You like 70s music.
Don't see it if You don't like campy fun and jukebox musicals
See it if You love 70's disco music and a good, laugh out loud, time!
Don't see it if you want serious theatre. This show is a hoot!
See it if you want to laugh! Great writing. Amazing performances by great actors.
Don't see it if you don't like 70's music.
See it if you are familiar with the disaster films of the 70's (Towering Inferno, Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake) and you like campy musicals.
Don't see it if you only like serious musicals with a deep message (because you won't find that here!). This is strictly for huge laughs.
Critic Reviews (55)
"The musical delivers plenty of laughs spoofing ‘70s disaster films to a soundtrack of the era’s most recognizable hits. Its combo of nostalgia and cheap gags makes for a crowd-pleasing, if not exactly original recipe, and its ensemble of Broadway heavyweights, while capable of much more than they’re tasked with here, certainly seem to be having a blast...Plotnick juggles a lot of moving parts, though it may have taken an outsider’s perspective to make them add up to a more coherent whole."
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"To fault the show for lacking substance would be as nonsensical as expecting 'Mamma Mia!' to be thought-provoking. And yet, given the flock of genuine experts who signed on for the spree, it does seem fair to expect more than this sporadically clever, sweetly produced, fantastically performed spoof of a passe genre in overdone jukebox musical style...The pleasures come from the soaring pop-vocal covers by theater vets pretending not to be too smart for their jobs."
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"'Disaster!' is silly, and I mean that as a compliment...While the performances are really good, the placement of the songs isn't notably inspired...Most of the first act is preparation, some of it redundant, for the terror to come, and the comic capabilities of the talented cast aren't fully called upon until horror strikes...'Disaster!' isn't a show that'll get you to consider the meaning of life, but it compensates by being lots of fun."
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"By the time 'Disaster!' was over, I had laughed some, but mostly I was rooting for the piranhas... 'Disaster!' features a melange of the era’s cheesiest songs, inserted, and often pummeled, into the book in such a way that they’re meant to exist as an extension of the dialogue...This is a goofy show, and one producers would’ve been far wiser to squeeze into a single act."
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"It’s a promising concept, but as now launched onto Broadway, the result falls far short of the laugh-riot territory it’s aiming for...A 17-person cast, studded with some impressive Broadway names, works dutifully if rarely successfully to keep things afloat...Folks around me [were] in stitches. But despite their gales of laughter, I sat there glumly contemplating how the show was living up to its title – exclamation point and all."
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"You can have a swell time enjoying this unpretentious collection of bits and pieces of silliness...Jack Plotnick has directed and JoAnn M Hunter has choreographed a cast of 20, and they certainly keep things moving all evening long. It’s worth seeing...In the end, I had a jolly good time watching this stage full of talented folks letting loose and not worrying one bit about the 21st Century craziness going on outside the theatre."
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"'Disaster!' is the season's happiest, most charming surprise...This show lampoons everyone and everything in sight, and yet still makes us care about its lovable cast of off-the-wall characters. This is the best kind of campy comedy — the kind with a very big heart...'Disaster!' keeps spitballing one outlandish gag after another at the audience, a shocking number of which land."
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"It's a recipe for theatrical cheesiness beyond compare and one that's served up with gusto by a spectacular array of Broadway talent...Anyone with even a passing familiarity with the genre at hand will anticipate most of what happens to these folks well before it takes place...'Disaster!,' thanks to the inestimable talents of the company, has steady enough theatrical sea-legs to provoke roars of laughter for those looking for a goofball night out."
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