Boom (WYRD Productions)
Boom (WYRD Productions)
Closed 2h 0m NYC: Midtown E
81% 127 reviews
81%
(127 Ratings)
Positive
87%
Mixed
12%
Negative
1%
Members say
Entertaining, Clever, Ambitious, Great acting, Great staging

About the Show

A solo performance that documents the music, culture, and politics that shaped the Baby Boomers (1945-1969).

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Critic Reviews (8)

Theatermania
January 15th, 2020

"Rick Miller's New Show Is Just OK, Boomer: Miller leads a multimedia trip across three tumultuous decades at 59E59."
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BroadwayWorld
January 16th, 2020

"See 'BOOM' at 59E59 Theaters-Rick Miller's Powerful Multi-Media Journey"
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Lighting & Sound America
January 15th, 2020

"People, places, and things rush by, forming a double-time parade that never pauses to allow anything to sink in."
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New York Stage Review
January 15th, 2020

3/5 Stars. "Writer-director-performer Rick Miller uses footage, pop music and numerous wigs to make his point"
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New York Stage Review
January 15th, 2020

3/5 Stars. "Multi-tasking Canadian star and Gen Xer Rick Miller channels baby boomers and their icons, in words and music"
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TheaterScene.net
January 22nd, 2020

"Covering the music, politics and social trends of the baby boomer age, Miller cleverly uses lights and projections in real time, making lightning fast yet seemingly effortless transitions between characters. His impersonations are as detailed and enjoyable as the characters he's portraying."
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Theater Pizzazz
January 15th, 2020

"So much information flashes by…that it's impossible to absorb it all, or to get much more out of it than a potted version of the times...Boomer or not…there's no avoiding the fact that, on purely technical grounds, you'll experience Rick Miller detonating an H-Bomb of talent in 'Boom.'"
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Front Row Center
February 21st, 2020

Score: 85%. "An interesting Canadian perspective of American events during the Baby Boomer years that leaves a dizzying exhausting effect and many questions and stories unfinished."
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