About the Show

Based on the 1969 film, this new musical for The New Group offers a bittersweet comic take on the sexual revolution.

From the show:

A bittersweet comic take on the sexual revolution in which the suavely conventional lives of two successful young couples, all friends, are both stirred and shaken when they open their minds to the changing attitudes around them. Jonathan Marc Sherman (Book), Duncan Sheik (Music, Lyrics) and Amanda Green (Lyrics) evoke both the confusions of the time, and the hard timeless lessons of marriage and emotional commitment, inspired by the brilliant and irreverent Oscar-nominated film. Scott Elliott directs this world premiere musical of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice featuring choreography by Kelly Devine.

Based on the Columbia Pictures motion picture directed by Paul Mazursky and written by Mazursky and Larry Tucker.

Critic Reviews (18)

"Four on a Mattress, With Songs: The New Group’s musical adaptation of Paul Mazursky’s 1969 movie, featuring Suzanne Vega, doesn’t smirk but it doesn’t soar, either."
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2/5 Stars "Like an evening of awkward sex, this stilted show isn’t nearly as stimulating as it promises to be...Scenes that are dryly humorous in the movie fall flat under Scott Elliott’s tonally murky direction...Only in the show’s final 20 minutes do you get a sense of what might have been."
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"'Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice' Is Odd & Sexless & Long & Tired"
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"Tame Titillation: The swinging screen comedy gets an off-Broadway stage adaptation."
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"Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega appears in the world premiere of this musical adaptation of the 1969 Paul Mazursky film, featuring songs by Duncan Sheik."
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"'Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice' Are Trapped in a Boring Musical: Jonathan Marc Sherman, Duncan Sheik, and Amanda Green bring a seminal '60s film to the stage."
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"The book scenes play like leftovers from a 1960s Broadway sex comedy -- and not one of the better ones -- frequently interrupted by random songs seemingly transmitted from a radio mysteriously connected to the Summer of Love."
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"The distancing effect of the music tends to dilute the book's satirical aim...The show does not have the lacerating precision of a play like Donald Margulies' 'Dinner with Friends,' for example. It is a pity because there are so many good things about 'Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice.'"
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