"Wolfe gives her all throughout...as effectively the real Joy pitched her product."
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"Her bootstrapping journey is set to a hummable score and brought to life with a moving script."
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"It’s American escapism at its finest, and every moment is enchanting. As cringe as it sounds to say it, Joy lives up to its name."
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"With its predictable plotting, a supporting cast that exists only as foils for the leading lady, and a score marked by a certain sameness throughout, Joy is something less than a miracle musical."
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"The show isn’t just one act but rather two, its second half completely squandering its theatrical momentum with a descent into narrative hokiness"
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The show might have been more powerful as a straight play without the musical score.
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“Unfortunately, most of the characters fall into exaggerated stereotypes that are superficial and two dimensional. The plot line seems to be served by all too convenient events that are revealed as needed and the musical numbers do nothing to serve the characters’ development or move the plot forward.”
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"moments… felt like being trapped inside an old infomercial, albeit an entertaining one"
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