“The closest thing we’ve ever seen to a stoner musical!...And that’s not a bad thing! We felt high just being there! Wizards! Existential crisis! Donuts! Wonton food and wonton thoughts! So much to love about this show…blissfully surreal! Malloy appeared in the show himself and now having seen two VERY DIFFERENT shows of his, we are instantly hooked on him and can’t wait to see what he does next! He is going to be a needed anti-hero of contemporary American musical theater!”

“Nerdtastic…a musical with spell-casting, 20-sided dice, metaphysical arguments, Dunkin Donuts & live trombonist. After Great Comet, Dave Malloy confirms his status as top composer.”

“A delightful take on contemporary ennui and the search for meaning in a post-recession, celebrity-conflict-obsessed culture. Equal parts Tolkien, MTV game show, Ziggy Stardust, and John Hughes movie…The text and music, by Eliza Bent and Dave Malloy (who are also our wizards), are shape-shifting satires of genre: the characters are never in the place they want to be, never satisfied with the relationships in and with space and time, their genre of the moment peters out as quickly as it is presented…This sense of defiance is served well by the direction of Dan Safer, whose wonderful experiments are infamous for their indeterminate structures, game-like challenges, and playful, but precise movement.”

“A mash-up of classical art, modern pop culture, depression inducing anxiety, electronic music, pole dancing, and mystical battles for the future of mankind’s very existence….Beyond just a mash-up of themes, Blue Wizard / Black Wizard is a mash-up of forms. It is part musical, part play, part game show, part multimedia project, and part interactive theatre (if you’re the kind of person who thinks that’s different from regular theatre). It fits together surprisingly well and ends up feeling both surprising and entirely cohesive. It’s a musical that’s informed by the Internet generation, and it shows. All of the major players are young, and the thirteen back-up dancers are all either college students or recent post-grads, some of both from NYU. It’s strange and funny and sad in a way that only this generation can be.”