26-year-old Patrick Bateman is sophisticated, rich and devastatingly handsome. He's got a sculpted body, a model-gorgeous girlfriend, a to-die-for apartment, and a Wall Street job in 1980s New York City. In short, his life's killer. There's just one snag in this dark vision of the American Dream... Patrick can't get the blood out of his $5000 suits.
Based on the best-selling novel by Bret Easton Ellis, and set in the epicenter of excess: 1980s Manhattan, this hit musical tells the story of Patrick Bateman, a young and handsome Wall Street banker with impeccable taste and unquenchable desires. Patrick and his elite group of friends spend their days in chic restaurants, exclusive clubs and designer labels. But at night, Patrick takes part in a darker indulgence, and his mask of sanity is starting to slip...
Director Rupert Goold, composer Duncan Sheik and book writer Roberta Aguirre-Sacasa crank up the satirical volume on Bret Easton Ellis' cult novel in a musical with design to die for and a cool, period-appropriate electro-pop score... the show is a very sharp, distinctly theatrical treatment of its source material, in many ways improving on Mary Harron's movie version from 2000...Goold and Aguirre-Sacasa have been prudent in toning down the book's perceived misogyny and sexual violence while honing its acerbic portrait of late capitalism in a milieu where surface is everything...Walker is charismatic and commanding, but it's the broken, corrosively conflicted aspects of his characterization that make the performance so hypnotic...Helene Yorke, hilarious as Patrick's aggressively superficial fiancée Evelyn...Alice Ripley...can't do much with the role of Patrick's medicated mother...But Jennifer Damiano finds poignancy in the good-girl part of Patrick's smitten secretary Jean...Still, even with its flaws the musical is a bloody good time.
Patrick - a young investment banker who moonlights as a serial killer - popped up on a London stage a few years ago, in a musical adaptation that actually proved more entertaining and poignant than its source. That show has now brought Patrick and his story home, and they're scarier and more thrilling than ever...reminds us how little has changed in the past 30 years. Patrick's idol Donald Trump, mentioned more than once in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's razor-sharp libretto, looms larger and sparks more debate than ever...The triumph of this American Psycho, directed with gale force and fabulous style byRupert Goold, is that it doesn't get lost in the details informing its brilliant, brutal satire... Es Devlin's cold, sleek set design...Katrina Lindsay's alternately slick and garish costumes reinforce both the superficiality of Patrick's lifestyle and the throbbing tension underneath....Walker's witty, terrifying Patrick - disturbingly sexy, then unexpectedly moving- holds us rapt throughout.
2016 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Benjamin Walker |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Choreography | Lynne Page |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical | Katrina Lindsay |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | Rupert Goold |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical | Justin Townsend |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Projection Design | Finn Ross |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design for a Musical | Es Devlin |
2016 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Dan Moses Schreier |
2016 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Benjamin Walker |
2016 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical | American Psycho |
2016 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Benjamin Walker |
2016 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical) | Katrina Lindsay |
2016 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | Rupert Goold |
2016 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Helene Yorke |
2016 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical) | Justin Townsend |
2016 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding New Broadway Musical | American Psycho |
2016 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding New Score (Broadway or off-Broadway) | Duncan Sheik |
2016 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Projection Design (Play or Musical) | Finn Ross |
2016 | Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design of a Musical | Justin Townsend |
2016 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Musical | Es Devlin |
2016 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Musical | Finn Ross |
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