The Trip to Bountiful - Broadway

Reviews

• Review by Mark Kennedy
  from Associated Press
  April 24, 2013

  ‘‘Move over, you adorable scamps in ‘Annie.’ Settle down, weird girls in ‘Matilda.’ Broadway has a new unlikely heroine, a frail widow who hums hymns and has a bad heart.’’

• Review by David Rooney
  from The Hollywood Reporter
  April 23, 2013

  ‘‘[Vanessa Williams is] a delight to watch, and looks sensational in Van Broughton Ramsey’s period costumes.’’

• Review by Melissa Rose Bernardo
  from Entertainment Weekly
  April 23, 2013

  ‘‘Following a 30-year Broadway absence, Tyson gives an awe-inspiring performance. She sings, she dances, she does everything but cartwheels.’’

• Review by Ben Brantley
  from The New York Times
  April 23, 2013

  ‘‘At the matinee I attended, Ms. Tyson’s interpretation of that hymn was so infectious that much of the audience was soon singing and clapping along. Ms. Tyson turned full-face to us, raised her arms and swayed in encouragement, like an impassioned choir master.’’