Another good reason to see Dogfight, CAP favorite Alyson Rogers is playing the role of Rose.
DOGFIGHT Reviews:
“Pasek and Paul are inarguably gifted composers who write inarguably elegant songs. Dogfight is intriguing and occasionally brilliant chamber musical from soulful young composers…a production to remember and celebrate, as well as the announcement of several major talents: its composers, certainly. One senses they’re just getting started, and they’ll have a dog in this fight for many years to come.”
-Scott Brown, New York Magazine
“Dogfight is something special! A sweet show with great songs. An energetic, use-all-the-set show that veers from quiet and intimate to thundering with enough energy you’ll feel it shake the seats. Pasek and Paul show real maturity and variety in their songs. Studded with impressive songs, an unexpected love affair, and a genuine and charming soul.”
-Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press
“If I were a religious man, I’d have gotten down on my knees and offered a prayer of heavenly thanks after seeing the wholly wonderful new musical Dogfight As I’m not, that fervent thank-you goes instead to songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. Dogfight is superbly crafted, gratifyingly intelligent, richly observant and immensely enjoyable. This is musical theater at its finest. It’s extremely rare these days to encounter new writers working with such confidence and ability. Pasek and Paul’s score is melodically rich and quietly redolent of period while speaking in its own voice, with lyrics of artful simplicity and rigorous craft that reveal volumes. Their achievement demands recognition.”
-Erik Haagensen, Backstage
“Easily the most delicate, surprising, musically satisfying score since Spring Awakening. A tenderly moving score and a heart of gold! Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s wistful and witty score, which makes the requisite rock and folk bows to the period, retains its own nervous, gentle character. You gotta hear Dogfight sing!”
-David Cote, Time Out New York
“Tuneful…Mr. Pasek and Mr. Paul have written a winning low-key date song finding melodic grace in romantic awkwardness. Possesses some of the quirky sentimental appeal that has helped make the musical “Once” an unexpected, Tony-winning success on Broadway…Reminded me of “Saturday Night,” a 1950s musical featuring songs by an untried talent named Stephen Sondheim.”
-Ben Brantley, The New York Times
“Extraordinarily rich and tender. The ambitious and challenging Dogfight sets the bar extremely high for upcoming musicals with a dynamic and textured character driven score by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul…excellent material. “Rose” is one of the best-written roles to hit Manhattan’s musical stages in quite some time. The thrill of what it accomplishes as an emotional piece of musical theatre makes it an exhilarating addition to the young season.”
-Michael Dale, Broadway World
“A wonderful little show. Songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul have accomplished a feat that’s almost unthinkable amid today’s sterile film adaptions: They’ve improved on their source…a rich musical language to elucidate the lives of the characters in ways they could never do by themselves. The musical deeply satisfies”
-Matthew Murray, Talkin’ Broadway
“Dogfight is an intimate little heartbreaker of beguiling freshness. Very good news is the songwriting team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, making their professional New York debut. In just over two hours, including intermission, they offer 16 fully realized songs that effortlessly move from ’60s bouffant pop to stirring folk pop, from sweet, unselfconscious love songs to the dry, mean staccato rhythms of “Assassins”-era Sondheim…a good and furious heart.”
-Linda Winer, Newsday
“An odd, affecting little musical. The songs here by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are tuneful and engaging. There’s genuine talent here, and a facility for intimate storytelling that serves the romance well. The young writers have crafted a touching small-scale musical. Their best songs here are the quieter, folkier numbers, many of which have a lovely conversational flow to them. Dogfight belongs to a group that includes such shows as Once, Grey Gardens…which take properties that don’t seem like automatic candidates for musical treatment and reinvent them in thoughtful ways.”
-David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
“Moody and gorgeous. Wow-worthy ear candy…truly memorable…observant. “Dogfight” seems more likely to yelp and whimper than sing. But sing it does…beautifully, thanks to work by the young composers-lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.”
-Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News
“A Better-than-usual score…Intimate, intriguing…sensitive and tender. Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s songs are impressive! ”
-Steven Suskin, Variety
“Poignant, funny and totally endearing. Robustly entertaining…could melt the coldest heart. One of the surprise sleepers of the year.”
-Rex Reed, The New York Observer
“Dogfight as a musical deserves attention. It is the newcomers that have generated the most excitement for this chamber musical: composer-lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.”
-Jonathan Mandell, TheFasterTimes
“Rousing, poignant. Highly appealing mixture of doo-wop, country-rock and mild Sondheimiana, by the composer-lyricist team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. ”
-Brendan Lemon, Financial Times
Last chance to see this ground breaking show at the CAP Center!
On November 21, 1963, a group of young marines is gathered in San Fransisco the night before they ship off to Vietnam. They decide to celebrate their last night of freedom with a cruel game they call a “dogfight” where every man sets out to find the ugliest girl he can and brings her to a party. Everyone puts in money, and the man with the ugliest date wins the pot. One of the young men taking part is Eddie Birdlace, who is running out of time to find a date when he meets idealistic waitress Rose Fenny in a diner. He invites her to the party—her very first party—and she accepts. She leaves angrily when she finds out about the bet and Eddie, feeling bad, comes to find her. After an inauspicious beginning, an awkward love story begins to unfold.
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Dogfight
On November 21, 1963, a group of young marines is gathered in San Fransisco the night before they ship off to Vietnam. They decide to celebrate their last night of freedom with a cruel game they call a “dogfight” where every man sets out to find the ugliest girl he can and brings her to a party. Everyone puts in money, and the man with the ugliest date wins the pot. One of the young men taking part is Eddie Birdlace, who is running out of time to find a date when he meets idealistic waitress Rose Fenny in a diner. He invites her to the party—her very first party—and she accepts. She leaves angrily when she finds out about the bet and Eddie, feeling bad, comes to find her. After an inauspicious beginning, an awkward love story begins to unfold.
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DOGFIGHT
Tickets are now on sale for the regional premier of the musical Dogfight! The hauntingly beautiful musical DOGFIGHT by Pasek and Paul (EDGES, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, A CHRISTMAS STORY) and Peter Duchan, was praised by countless critics and nominated for nearly every award available including winning the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical. Based on the 1991 Warner Brothers film, DOGFIGHT takes audiences on a romantic and heartbreaking theatrical journey that stays with you long after the performance.