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Read our four-star review of *How to Dance in Ohio*, the musical based on the Peabody Award-winning documentary of the same name about autistic, young adults. Read all our theatre reviews at NewYorkTheatreGuide.com.
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The HBO doc-turned-musical 'How to Dance in Ohio' hits some high notes with its appealing cast, but it also gets a bit lost in translation.
“How To Dance In Ohio,” the new musical that opened Sunday night at the Belasco Theatre, marks a laudable first for Broadway: A show about autistic persons who are actually played by actors with autism. But as groundbreaking “How To Dance” is as an idea, its execution across the board does not match its admirable intentions. The show, directed by Sammi Cannold, waffles between being stalely predictable and taking confounding narrative leaps. The construction of plot and dialogue is shoddy.
A musical about seven autistic young adults, played by seven autistic young actors, breaks new ground on Broadway.
Broadway's first autistic cast has all the right moves in a musical that sometimes doesn't.