Elf: The Musical
Opening Night: November 17, 2024
Theater: Marquis Theatre
Website: elfonbroadway.com
Elf The Musical is the hilarious and heartwarming tale of Buddy (Tony Award® nominee Grey Henson), a young orphan whose life is changed forever when he mistakenly crawls into Santa’s sack of toys one Christmas Eve. Raised by elves at the North Pole, Buddy’s enormous size and limited toy-making abilities make him realize he may not quite fit in! When he discovers he is actually human, Buddy embarks on a journey to New York City to find his birth father, and in turn, helps the Big Apple and the people he meets rediscover the true meaning of Christmas.
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November 17, 2024
In its latest Broadway outing, starring an exuberant Grey Henson in the title role, “Elf the Musical” has gotten Buddy delightfully, entirely right.
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November 18, 2024
The production is a winner in its most vital pursuit: getting children to laugh.
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November 17, 2024
Broadway needs a little Christmas, right this very minute, and it’s a pleasure to take off for a while on Elf’s magic ride.
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November 17, 2024
It made this jaded critic believe in Santa Claus again for one glimmering, ephemeral moment of theater magic.
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For subversively funny delight, suitable for knowing adult and innocent child alike, Elf on Broadway makes a perfect stocking-stuffer.
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If we must have Christmas shows, let them all be as professional and good-hearted and smart as this one.
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November 17, 2024
If it achieves a sense of spectacle, it’s only by way of brute force. I had to wipe a lot of crud off my glasses frames.
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November 17, 2024
The updated Elf remains as much a mixed bag as it was during its previous two Broadway stagings in 2010 and 2012, with one major improvement: Grey Henson, the immensely likable, pitched-to-the-rafters firecracker from Mean Girls and Shucked, steps as easily into Buddy’s green winklepickers as Cinderella ever did a glass slilpper.
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November 17, 2024
This latest production — overlong, more dopey than witty, and mostly missing the spark of the original — largely demonstrates that, sometimes, Christmas spirit is not enough to keep a vehicle aloft.
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When this all-ages musical does land, it hits the sweet spots, bountiful with jabs at NYC culture, sight gags, and Liam Steel’s outsized, jaunty choreography. Additionally, the cast are a cornucopia of Christmas delights.
READ THE REVIEWNovember 18, 2024
And director Philip Wm. McKinley, with support from an excellent cast and design team, serves that blithe creativity fully in a smart, ebullient production that truly provides — with apologies for the cliché — fun for the whole family.
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November 17, 2024
The new Broadway production is, I must confess, a crowd-pleasing, feel-good delight that is presented with genuine showmanship, including expansive dance choreography by Liam Steel, whimsical digital projections, and (in a feat reminiscent of the “Back to the Future” musical) Santa’s sleigh flying high above the audience.
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