The Bedwetter
Opening Night: June 7, 2022
Theater: Linda Gross Theater
Website: atlantictheater.org
Meet Sarah. She’s funny. She’s dirty. She’s 10. And she’s got a secret that you’ll never guess (unless you read the title). The Bedwetter is a new musical based on the bestselling memoir by Sarah Silverman, written with Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews), and featuring a score by Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne).
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June 7, 2022
Lucky for me and all women out there, not only is The Bedwetter inventive, it is a beautiful, provocative showcase of dynamic female characters.
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June 7, 2022
As long as it sticks close to young Sarah’s resilience as she tries to make friends without revealing her mortifying condition, “The Bedwetter,” an Atlantic Theater Company production, is a potty-mouthed pleasure. But in jimmying the original into a more serious musical format as it proceeds, it achieves only a middling geniality.
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June 7, 2022
It is a lot to set to song—bedwetting, depression, a young girl prescribed shed-loads of Xanax, family grief, divorce, and one salty-as-hell grandma—and the musical adapted from Sarah Silverman’s memoir, The Bedwetter (Atlantic Theater, to July 3) absolutely goes for it.
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June 7, 2022
That smart framework screams out for a bold and moving musical. So why does it come off so slight and tentative? Holding the show back the most is an understandable flaw, considering the piece is about a famous person: There is way too much Sarah in it.
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June 7, 2022
What initially attracts us to Crystal and Silverman’s respective characters, and several of the family members surrounding them, is that they are basically nasty, irreverent and wildly inappropriate in their actions and words. In other words, the lead characters are basically truth-tellers who, unfortunately, end up being reformed.
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June 7, 2022
I’m sure that Broadway is the goal for The Bedwetter, but it still feels too small and unfinished for that designation right now. With the right kind of revisions, this uproarious and dirty little show could easily find a nice little home in the West 40s. That would be the most fitting tribute to Schlesinger of all.
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The Bedwetter ultimately delivers a message about the powers of streaming your truth. The show is flawed but fun, and it feels at home off Broadway.
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As a musical, it is both quiet and loud, crude and kind, diffuse in its structure, but clear in its aims and lucid in its understanding of psychology and growth. And even if the ending doesn’t really end anything, it still feels like completion, like success. For a show of and about so many bad jokes, that’s one hell of a punchline.
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