Nightmare Alley
Tickets and Information
SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Apr 21, 2010
Closed May 23, 2010
Visit the Nightmare Alley website:
http://www.geffenplayhouse.com
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Step into Nightmare Alley and enter the titillating world of carnies, cons and clairvoyants. With a score as wild as a funhouse and as evocative as a beautiful tightrope walker, this world premiere musical tells the tale of a young carnie couple who tempt the fickle hand of fate. Based on the darkly evocative 1946 novel of the same name, Nightmare Alley is a night at the theater full of special effects, wondrous feats and enough spirit to make believers of us all. But remember, here, things are never as they seem.
What are other members saying?
Disillusioned 4
And Barbour knocked it out of the park! The rest was really crap, and hard to believe that it was done by adults. Professional musicians. If you like the same song played slower or faster and add or remove an instrument here and there, just enough to change it around, thats what you got. It was kind of a slap stick/baudville type music popular in the 30s, nothing we all havent heard a thousand times. Extremely ordinary in every way and moreover funky and childish. I couldnt believe grown ups wrote it. As I audience member I was thinking to myself "didnt they already play this one?" It was embarrassing. I guess if this play was performed by our local high school kids; it would have been quite good. It would have also been a five dollar show; which is what Nightmare Alley was worth. Not to take anything from the actors...they were good. The production was good. The content and music was silly and childish. But hey if you like silly no plot musicals; this is the one for you.
Reviewed by jip145
on Sunday, Apr 18th, 2010
Disillusioned 3
on because...I dont know why. I guess they felt they had to make us suffer through almost two hours because we had to get our monies worth. Im told they worked on this production for 10 years, I think someone along the line after 3 years should have just pulled the plug. Either make sense of it or get out of it. But god forbid, you just keep pouring more money into hoping to get it off the ground and only to dupe the rest of us out of 55 bucks. The play dragged on and on, no content, no connection from one scene to another, just more confusion and waiting for the whole thing to start. After way too long I was waiting for it to end. I couldnt believe it, the looks and the sound quality was so good, the production was very good...but there was no content. Now. The music. After all this is suppose to be a musical. More of the same. Disillusionment. I know the guys that did the music must have stocked up on beer and knocked all the music out in a weekend! Very poor. One song was good.
Reviewed by jip145
on Sunday, Apr 18th, 2010
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