Floyd Collins Reviews
Adam Guettel's musical, based on a true story, makes it long-awaited Broadway debut.
Adam Guettel's musical, based on a true story, makes it long-awaited Broadway debut.
"Floyd Collins reaches the sublime, and that is a rare achievement in any work of art. The layering of sound and melody in Adam Guettel's score is exquisite, even haunting. It's a glorious-sounding production."
The New York Times
Jesse Green
"Jeremy Jordan gives his finest performance to date in this adventurous and stirring musical that leaves you with a sense of spiritual uplift."
The Wall Street Journal
Charles Isherwood
Floyd Collins is a gripping and powerful musical based on the true story of a cave explorer in Kentucky, 1925. While chasing a dream of fame and fortune by turning Sand Cave into a tourist attraction, Floyd Collins himself becomes the attraction when he gets trapped 200 feet underground. Alone but for sporadic contact with the outside world, including his brother Homer, Floyd fights for his sanity – and, ultimately, his life – as the rescue effort above explodes into the first genuine media circus. Reporters and gawkers from across the country descend on the property, fueling the hysteria and manipulating the nation into holding its collective breath.