"In 'Only Gold' the simplistic story and trite dialogue drag the dancing down. Perhaps the authors spent too much time listening to their hearts and not enough to organs higher and lower."
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" 'Only Gold' captures the magic of old Broadway, but with a contemporary take on balletic choreography and a sharply crafted score, altogether making this resonant story about love and the time we dedicate to it extraordinarily refreshing."
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It's the perfect setup for a Rudolf Friml operetta from 1922, with script notes from Barbara Cartland, and what co-authors Andy Blankenbuehler and Ted Malawer were thinking of is anyone's guess. The script is loaded with woozily uplifting aphorisms like, "It's hard, isn't it? To listen to that voice deep inside of you." Or this: "If your heart called out, first a whisper, then a scream...would you listen?...Next to this, John Logan's book for Moulin Rouge sounds like something whipped up by the entire Académie Française.
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"It’s all such a silly, warmed-over pile of clichés. The text – the pretext – merely serves to distract us from some captivating, if relentless dance numbers: two dozen in all."
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" 'Only Gold' is polished and charming and thoroughly enjoyable, and the dancing is killer. That’s more than enough."
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“ 'Only Gold,' tries to squeeze a third couple into that musical-theater formula — and it produces a very unfocused and confusing first act."
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“ 'Only Gold,' at MCC Theater, brings a surge of energy, such as one needs to become a woke person. Woke, in this case, means listening to your heart regardless of what society may dictate."
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A cast of 20. An original story, not based on a book or movie. Plenty of dancing. Few modern musicals have all these things, and that Only Gold does indicates the breadth of its ambition. Set in Paris in 1928, the show features an ensemble in near-constant motion on an art deco–styled stage with a long, winding staircase whose banister extends into a circular fixture suspended above the stage amid a sky of globular lights. In design and concept it’s a very ambitious project indeed. Or maybe it wasn’t ambitious enough, because despite the glamorous set and costumes and a cast of fan favorites from theater, TV and music, Only Gold lacks an essential component: a cohesive story of any consequence.
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