The Toxic Avenger
Opening Night: April 7, 2009
Closing: January 3, 2010
Theater: New World Stages
Based on the classic 1985 cult film by Lloyd Kaufman, The Toxic Avenger is a new musical by Joe DiPietro (I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change) & David Bryan (Bon Jovi), with direction by John Rando.
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April 7, 2009
What’s big and green and sings pop-rock anthems while tearing off the limbs of evildoers? The Toxic Avenger, the mutant superhero born of a shlocky cult movie who has now been given the supreme honor of inspiring a stage musical.
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April 7, 2009
Boy meets blind girl, turns toxic after exposure to hazardous waste, saves the environment, and gets the girl. That’s the basic scenario of the rollickingly funny new musical The Toxic Avenger now at New World Stages, in which bookwriter Joe DiPietro and composer David Bryan take the senseless violence and over-the-top gore of the 1984 movie of the same name and morphs them into campy fun.
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April 9, 2009
This is precisely the breed of pop-culture mutant Off Broadway was made for: a winking rock & roll romp inspired by sci-fi schlock, crammed with a smorgasbord of showpieces for outsize comic talents to chew on. Audience appetites for such frothy runoff may vary according to age and degree of intoxication, but for most of its running time The Toxic Avenger is hard to resist on its own infectious terms. It’s Shrek for stoners.
READ THE REVIEWMarch 18, 2009
In the silly new musical based on the 1984 B-movie horror flick there’s not much to be found in the way of art.
READ THE REVIEWApril 15, 2009
The Toxic Avenger is about three times better than you’d expect—which, depending on your expectation level, puts it somewhere between painless and actually kind of . . . good.
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