What do you get when you bring together the music of the Go-Go’s, 16th century prose, and a star of RuPaul’s Drag Race? Head Over Heels, apparently! The reviews are in, and while the plot of this centuries-bridging jukebox musical mash-up may be exhausting to follow, the laughs – and the affirming message – come easy. Featuring non-binary performers, like the sensational RuPaul star Peppermint as the oracle Pythio, and celebrating the stories of non-binary characters, this new musical treads new ground with undeniable enthusiasm… and it can be contagious. It may not be for everyone – it certainly wasn’t for all the reviewers – but it’s a boundary pushing work on Broadway, and we’re always up for that.
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF HEAD OVER HEELS
You would think that a sexually polymorphous musical that combines a Renaissance pastoral romance with the songs of the 1980s California rock group the Go-Go’s would at the very least be a hoot, a show that could get sloppy drunk on its own outrageousness. Yet “Head Over Heels,” which opened on Thursday night at t…
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER REVIEW OF HEAD OVER HEELS
You have to give credit to the creators of Head Over Heels for thinking outside the box. One might have expected a musical inspired by the songs of The Go-Go’s to be either a biography of the popular all-female ’80s band or perhaps a modern story set in the sun-drenched environs of Southern California from where…
NY1 REVIEW OF HEAD OVER HEELS
There are a lot of “ifs” that will determine your appreciation of this one. If you like the music of the Go-Go’s, if you’re partial to silly period musicals, if you’re into Sir Philip Sidney. Yep, you heard that right. “Head Over Heels” is a cockamamie mish mash of disparate elements that at best is a high-energy…
TIME OUT NEW YORK REVIEW OF HEAD OVER HEELS
To enjoy Head Over Heels, which offers quite a lot to enjoy, it is probably best to kick up your heels and put your head on hold. That’s not to say that this saucy, boisterous musical doesn’t have a brainy side, starting with its ambitious crossbreeding of four time periods: It grafts a 2010s queer sensibility…
CHICAGO TRIBUNE REVIEW OF HEAD OVER HEELS
Sir Philip Sidney, a modest and courtly chap of Shakespearean vintage, self-described his 1580 heroic prose poem “Arcadia” as “a trifle, triflingly handled.” Back in the misogynistic wasteland of 1980s music criticism, that’s precisely how a lot of men described the music of the Go-Go’s, an influential new-wave…
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