The reviews are in, folks! Bedbugs!!! infested the festival and here’s what the critics had to say:
“The sci-fi pop rock musical is alive and kicking in Bedbugs!!!, a glitzy, pumped-up new production in the New York Musical Theatre Festival…” -nytheatre.com
“…Leschen and Sauter have created a set of songs with a great deal of cleverness and craft, truly worthy of Madonna in her Material Girl days.” -curtainup.com
“Top to bottom everyone in the ensemble is with the spirit of the material; I haven’t had as much what-a-goof, laugh-out-loud fun at a campy musical since the first time I saw Rocky Horror.
-Just Shows to Go You
“…Celina Carvajal, a redheaded bombshell who made a pit stop on the Legally Blonde reality series. She’s a superstar-in-training…” -theatremania.com
Broadway vet Brian Charles Rooney (The Threepenny Opera) steals the show as Dionne Salon.”
-Halley Bondy of Backstage
“Chris Hall — as a preening, strutting six-foot bedbug you’re likely to remember — is a delicious combination of David Lee Roth and Tim Curry.” -theatremania.com
“The supporting cast is top-notch, as well- each playing a bedbug minion as well as various other roles in some lickety-split costume changes (the costumes by Amanda Bujak and Chris Rumery are giddy and wonderful and generate laughs on their own)” -broadwayworld.com
With Sauter’s burrowing and boisterous book and lyrics, Leschen’s invidiously astute 80s take-off tunes, and such strong performers on hand, BEDBUGS!!! already has almost all the bite it needs.
-Talkin’ Broadway
To read the full reviews, go to the links page.