Washington Post - Recommended
"..."[title of show]" is strictly for the Signature set. It's aimed at a slice of the market that shares in the sort of love Driscoll croons about, the pleasures derived from recollections of "hearing Andrea McArdle sing from the hi-fi in the den." You don't know McArdle? Oh, boy. Well, the show in the Ark may leave you cold. And still, the sun'll come out, tomorrow."
Washington Examiner - Somewhat Recommended
"...
Upon some reflection, however -- and "[title of show]" offers plenty of time for that -- this is for people who savor the trivia and history and gossip of the Great White Way. It's a lot better at name-checking infamous flops (good-naturedly including Signature's own "Glory Days," which ran on Broadway for a single performance) than it is at satirizing the narrative or musical conventions of the form."
DCist - Recommended
"...The characters in [title of show], the uber-meta musical now playing at Signature Theatre, pronounce in song that they'd rather be nine people's favorite thing than 100 people's ninth favorite thing. It's an admirable admission, and while DCist's assessment of them falls somewhere closer to the middle, musical theater geeks enamored by quick wit and a constant stream of clever allusions could easily be charmed into the "favorite" category."
MetroWeekly - Highly Recommended
"...[title of show] is as delightfully inappropriate and outrageously funny as one could possibly hope. It airs all the dirty laundry of the creative process, like the fact that the act of writing is sometimes a battle between bringing forth something staggering and brilliantly new, or surfing Internet porn and watching marathon reruns of The Bachelor. Or like the fact that to be a creative type almost certainly means having a day job -- or several day jobs that often require the ability to balance full trays of catered dinners."
WeLoveDC - Somewhat Recommended
"...[title of show] is sometimes painfully meta and if you’re irritated at just how twee it is in its description then you certainly aren’t going to enjoy it being milked for laughs for over an hour. If you’re willing to let the show wink at you fairly incessantly and prepared to overlook some imperfections in both the production and the underlying material then it can be a good time."
Washington City Paper - Highly Recommended
"...Signature’s musical rep has all to do with polishing to gemlike clarity shows that have failed to gleam elsewhere. I should’ve known they’d do it again. Happily, audiences appear to be flocking to [title of show]. The place was packed, and rolling with laughter (as was I) at the very jokes that had seemed so wan in New York. The absence of Bowen and Bell (whose presence seemed the whole reason for the piece’s existence at the Vineyard Theater) turns out not to be a drawback."
Arlington Connection - Highly Recommended
"...The warmth and humor of the show captures the youthful blend of self confidence and angst that afflicts many in their mid-twenties. It is precisely that blend, however, that makes it so infectiously entertaining. (Be forewarned, however. It also features some of the language that twenty-somethings tend to overuse that in more mature circles is frowned upon in mixed company.)"
Washingtonian - Recommended
"...Brechtian it ain’t, although there are more than a few winks at the audience, who are supposed to be in on the whole joke. Instead, [title of show] comes across as a witty pastiche of our reality-obsessed culture, a sort of Big Brother take on Broadway—with a sense of humor and some fabulous solo numbers, naturally. It’s show business, after all."
Fairfax Times - Somewhat Recommended
"...Too bad the premise isn't as pristine. Hunter and Jeff are in the midst of to meet a three-week deadline to enter the New York Musical Theatre Festival. They have no idea on which to base a show, until they finally decide to write about themselves and how they are trying to write a show. Upon this slender conceit the show falters, but surely not for lack of effort."
Two Hours Traffic - Somewhat Recommended
"...[title of show] is a musical with a lot of hype. When it was off-Broadway and on Broadway, its fans, known as [tos]ers, were inordinately enthusiastic. They were sure to tell everyone how great the musical was, and decried the fact that it wasn’t selling tickets fast enough to stay on Broadway. So there’s a lot of hype surrounding the piece, and, in my mind, the actual show doesn’t live up to it."
DCTheatreScene - Recommended
"...Backstage shows, such as A Chorus Line, Noises Off! and Kiss Me, Kate are catnip for theater lovers and [title of show] will definitely induce looped swoons in diehard Broadway geeks.
You thought you got all the jokes in MetroStage’s Musical of Musical: The Musical? [title of show], a fetching musical-within-a-musical at Signature Theatre, kicks it up a notch into Final Jeopardy territory.."