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Review 1 for Play Dead
Play Dead, not for the faint of heart
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Favorite moment: The moment that the lights go out, the screaming starts and the fun begins. @
Posted 11/15/2010
by Jimcritic
Location:Branford, CT
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For those of you who appreciate a good scare in the relatively safe confines of your chair, this show is not for you. You're not safe in your chair as you can seemingly be reached by things that go bump in the night at any time during the performance. From the moment that the lights first go out to the end of the show, there are moments in the dark when you can hear faint whispers, feel fleeting touches and get spattered with bits of blood and gore from the happenings on the stage.
It's all done with a sense of fun and mischief and unless you're totally dead where it counts, you can't help but get caught up in it.
The show is well-acted and well-paced and even without an intermission, it seems much shorter as are all good roller coaster rides.
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Review 2 for Play Dead
Amazing
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- Sat, May 14, 2011 @
Favorite moment: Rats running around in the dark @
Posted 10/23/2011
by RiskyLVRG
Location:NYC
A great show - recommended for anyone visiting or living in NYC. 10x better than your average overpriced Broadway show.
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Review 3 for Play Dead
Fun Macabre Show
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Posted 09/10/2011
by SteveKOB
Location:PA
Play Dead is a fun macabre show with death as it's theme. Somehow, morbid stories of death and murder are mixed with magic and illusion and made highly entertaining.
The Players Theater is a small intimate venue in the Village with plenty of streets to stroll and places to eat.
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Review 4 for Play Dead
Truly Entertaining
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- Sun, Jul 24, 2011 @
Posted 08/14/2011
by cmatt
Location:Brooklyn
This show was excellent.
Todd Robbins and Co make Play Dead the right amount of thrill, intrigue, and laugh.
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- Sun, Jul 24, 2011 @
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Review 5 for Play Dead
Scary, SCARY!!!! Loved it!!!!!!!!!!!
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- Sun, Jul 17, 2011 @
Favorite moment: When they called my daughter on-stage for the Ouija board, and all the tricks they did. Incredible!! @
Posted 07/30/2011
by Ouija
Location:Virginia
I recommend everyone to go see it!!! I really enjoyed it!! Went to NY for the weekend with my daughter for her 20th!! We had a blast attending this show. Has so many tricks I couldn't figure them out. I almost pee in my pants, ok, I know it's gross, but I didn't. I did scream a LOT!!!!! Todd Robbins is incredible and his little son absolutely ADORABLE!!! (not part of the show), but I bet you he will grow-up doing just what daddy does. He was even wearing his little white suit. Simply adorable!!
Absolutely entretaining! I was horrified, but did enjoy it a LOT!!! I sitll can't believe it, but we survived!!
Absolutely entretaining! I was horrified, but did enjoy it a LOT!!! I sitll can't believe it, but we survived!!
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- Sun, Jul 17, 2011 @
Favorite moment: When they called my daughter on-stage for the Ouija board, and all the tricks they did. Incredible!! @
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Review 6 for Play Dead
Awesome Show!
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- Sun, Jul 24, 2011 @
Favorite moment: When Todd did told the story about his family friend who was murdered. The magic there was beautiful and direct. @
Posted 07/26/2011
by BolterC
Location:Boston, MA
If you like the spookier, darker side of magic, story telling and the bizarre then this is the show for you! Unfortunately we got to see the very last show they were doing after almost a year's run. There are rumors it may be back around October so keep your eyes peeled. This is not a show to pass up!!
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Favorite moment: When Todd did told the story about his family friend who was murdered. The magic there was beautiful and direct. @
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Review 7 for Play Dead
A very enjoyable evening!
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- Sat, Jul 23, 2011 @
Posted 07/25/2011
by npiya
I took my husband to Play Dead as a birthday treat and we both thoroughly enjoyed the performance. There was never a dull moment with plenty of thrills and chills and the host was excellent.
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Review 8 for Play Dead
Play dead kept me on the edge of my seat!
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- Sat, Jul 23, 2011 @
Posted 07/25/2011
by CharlieSheen99
Didn't really know what to expect when I got there, but was more than pleased. Show was frightening and unpredictable. Loved every second of it
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Review 9 for Play Dead
Great show!
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- Fri, Jul 22, 2011 @
Posted 07/25/2011
by seenatonofmagicshows
I highly recommend this show if you like a good spooky thrill. Well written and overall a fun show. Too bad it closed this weekend
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Review 10 for Play Dead
Brilliant Theater, Chills Galore
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- Fri, Jul 22, 2011 @
Favorite moment: Incredibly hot naked woman leaping out of a man's chest. But I also admire Robbins's honesty and integrity in playing on audience's trust. @
Posted 07/25/2011
by ktkeith
Location:Brooklyn, NY
"Play Dead" is a brilliantly crafted theatrical event written and directed by two consummate showpeople who both love the history of traveling theater, and have re-created some of that history on stage. It is an old-time "spook show" - a kind of low-rent vaudeville performance involving magic tricks, story-telling, illusions, mentalism and spiritualism, all presented with cheesy props and spooky overtones in a darkened theater. Such shows played at midnight in rented theaters in small towns on the traveling-theater circuit, many decades ago. Todd Robbins and Teller lovingly - and scarily - re-create such an event, delivering a funny, macabre, thrilling and educational performance that is as much a paean to old-time theater as it is an enervating night out for their audiences.
Robbins is a master lecturer and sideshow performer (not surprisingly - he teaches that and more as director of the Coney Island Sideshow). He commands the stage, creating a thrilling, and often touching, atmosphere as he effortlessly reels off an amazing spectrum of performance skills, seamlessly tying them into the evening's thanatological theme, taking the audience wherever he chooses and yet always letting them down gently. It's a beautiful master class in a performance style that is all but forgotten. And as pure theater, it can't be beat. The audience screamed again and again, laughed and gasped and were amazed over and over. The final act is worth the price of admission by itself.
This is amazing theater that you'll never see again, brilliantly done, and just a bang-up good time as well. If you missed it, you really missed something.
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- Fri, Jul 22, 2011 @
Favorite moment: Incredibly hot naked woman leaping out of a man's chest. But I also admire Robbins's honesty and integrity in playing on audience's trust. @
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Review 11 for Play Dead
Amamzing, freaky and poingnent and funny!
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- Fri, Jul 22, 2011 @
Favorite moment: the feeling of a rat sniffing my toe. Actually-- I have many favorite mom
ents, but i did like that one! @
ents, but i did like that one! @
Posted 07/24/2011
by simplee
The show was one of the best I have seen. It was a complete 3 d theatrical experience with laughter, fear, love and a a very true message. GO!!!! (but don't take little kids!)
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- Fri, Jul 22, 2011 @
Favorite moment: the feeling of a rat sniffing my toe. Actually-- I have many favorite mom
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Review 12 for Play Dead
Play Dead
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Posted 07/24/2011
by cjbeat
Location:Syracuse, Ny
It was a very entertaining and fun night!! My 22 year old son and his 19 year old girlfriend went with me, and we were all very pleased with the show. It was my son's favorite part of our NYC trip!!! I am so glad I found this off broadway show.
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Review 13 for Play Dead
Amazing!
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- Thu, Jul 21, 2011 @
Posted 07/23/2011
by Orito
Location:Bronx, NY
This was my first time attending a play, I was skeptic at first, but this play was so amazing. I would definitely recommend it to everyone. It was interactive and very entertaining.
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Review 14 for Play Dead
Fun + Creepy
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- Thu, Jul 21, 2011 @
Posted 07/23/2011
by Anonymous
Location:NYC
The stories and presentation were genuinely disturbing at times, and Robbins's showmanship is excellent. There are some moments where the show goes for the "Boo!" kind of startle-reflex scare, but mostly even the pitch-black sequences rely more on the audience's imagination. If you know anything about magic, you'll know what's coming well before it happens, and unfortunately the Playbill gives away the big finale.
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Review 15 for Play Dead
Play Dead is as funny as a barrel of zombies...
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- Wed, Jul 20, 2011 @
Favorite moment: the vivisection of an audience member. @
Posted 07/22/2011
by vinnuch
Location:new york
Funny and scary in the right measure, Robbins and Teller have conjure a potent brew of grotesque hilarity and disgusting mirth. It's what you you expect a seance/burlesque/grand guignol evening of light entertainment would be and more... See it.
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- Wed, Jul 20, 2011 @
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Review 16 for Play Dead
Great
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- Fri, Jul 15, 2011 @
Posted 07/20/2011
by 36523654123
if you like to be shocked, scared, amazed, and laugh at the same time this is the show for you!
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Review 17 for Play Dead
Play Dead
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- Sat, Jul 16, 2011 @
Favorite moment: appearence of spirit. @
Posted 07/18/2011
by athomps1
Location:Long Island
Fun a delightful romp with death. Lots of effects and excitement. Actually thought provoking.
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- Sat, Jul 16, 2011 @
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Review 18 for Play Dead
Play Dead was a hit
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- Fri, Jul 15, 2011 @
Posted 07/18/2011
by mnlduffy
Location:Northern NJ
Much more fun than expected.. even though I wasn't sure what to expect- Todd Robbins was a terrific host with great thrills & magic throughout.. can't tell you more.. you have to see it yourself.
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Review 19 for Play Dead
Play Dead keeps you alive!
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- Tue, Jul 12, 2011 @
Favorite moment: Light bulb eating! @
Posted 07/14/2011
by Anonymous
Location:Connecticut
I'm not sure if this was a magic show, a monologue or a scary story. Play Dead is a lot of fun and afterwards you feel bonded with the audience. Don't wear good clothes!
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- Tue, Jul 12, 2011 @
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Review 20 for Play Dead
LOVED IT!
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- Sun, Jul 10, 2011 @
Favorite moment: when they turned off the lights! @
Posted 07/13/2011
by twistedshifter
Location:manhattan
I havent laughed this hard from watching my friends freak out in AGES!!!
definitely a good time that isnt too deep or trying too hard.
entertaining and worth it.
got the 4 pack tix!
definitely a good time that isnt too deep or trying too hard.
entertaining and worth it.
got the 4 pack tix!
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- Sun, Jul 10, 2011 @
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