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Associated Press

'Toxic Avenger' Tests Your Tolerance for Silliness
Get ready to put your tolerance for silliness to the test.

Time Out New York

Review: The Toxic Avenger
The 1980s cult flick gets a shamelessly schlocky and fun rock musical.

Broadway.tv

The Toxic Avenger: Wicked Green Fun
From the moment the show begins, as an actor implores the audience to leave their cell phones on, the new musical The Toxic Avenger audaciously stands out as the most uniquely theatrical comedy playing in New York City. With its inventive combination of subversive fun and malevolent mischief, the new musical manages to achieve a neatly and sweetly romantic sentiment. It is an astonishing achievement.

TheaterMania

Review: The Toxic Avenger
This rollickingly funny adaptation of the 1984 horror movie about a nerd who becomes a monster is expertly acted and directed.

New York Times

Geek Turns Superhero to Save a Town
The Toxic Avenger, the mutant superhero born of a shlocky cult movie, has inspired a dopey, intermittently funny musical.

New York Post

'Toxic' mock a monstrously funny play
Heads up, Shrek. There's a new green monster in town, and his show is hilarious. It's hard to believe any musical adaptation of...

Hartford Courant

'Toxic Avenger' Musical Is Campy Fun
"The Toxic Avenger" jams together drag bits, medium heavy metal, a green mutant victim of industrial pollution, blindness jokes, a triple role for the fabulous Nancy Opel and lots of New Jersey jokes.

Bloomberg.com

New Jersey's Toxic Ooze Yields Top-Rate Musical `Avenger': Jeremy Gerard
Loud, gross and lovable, “The Toxic Avenger” retails hoary Helen Keller jokes, horror-flick cliches and geek romance in a rock musical that raises your consciousness and gets you out in under two hours.

Variety

Review: The Toxic Avenger
A lone singer stands atop a barrel of nuclear waste and presents us with his groin as he belts the opening bars of "The Toxic Avenger." Where else could we be but New Jersey?

Back Stage

The Toxic Avenger reviewed by Jason Fitzgerald [critic's pick]
Apparently, jokes about New Jersey as the trash can of the Northeast are still funny, gentrification be damned.

Talkin' Broadway

Review: The Toxic Avenger
A show with a pejorative adjective in its title is just asking for trouble. And in the case of The Toxic Avenger, I’d love to oblige - one-word descriptions for this meltdown of a musical by Joe DiPietro and David Bryan that just opened at New World Stages don’t come much more apt than that T word. But in the interests of creativity and Nancy Opel, I’ll demur. . .

nytheatre.com

Review: The Toxic Avenger

CurtainUp

Review: The Toxic Avenger
With crisp direction by John Rando and a megawatt performance by Nancy Opel this ultimately feels a bit recycled, but fortunately, it’s been created from some quality pre-used materials