“Beaches” Review: You'll Laugh and, Yes, You'll Cry on Broadway

‘Beaches’ Washes Up on Broadway With Limited Wind Beneath Its Wings

The new show offers a little more imagination than most screen-to-stage outings, but it’s too long and often overzealous.

“Beaches” review: You'll laugh and, yes, you'll cry on Broadway

The stage version of the story, however, takes more cues from the novel than the Bette Midler movie adaptation. Kelli Barrett and Jessica Vosk in 'Beaches'Credit: Courtesy“Spoiler alert: she dies,” someone said as the audience took their seats before a preview performance of Beaches on Broadway, which opened tonight at the Majestic Theatre.While blunt, the theater-goer is not wrong. Famously sad and based on the 1988 movie starring Bette Midler …

'Beaches: A New Musical' review: Jessica Vosk gives her all to a disastrous Broadway adaptation

The death of "Otto Titsling" is the canary in the coal mine for this disastrous Broadway adaptation of "Beaches: A New Musical." Review.

'Beaches' Broadway Review: '80s Tearjerker Washes Out As Stage Musical

Deadine's Broadway review of 'Beaches' stage musical adaptation.

‘Beaches’ Broadway Review: Soulless and Uninspired Musical Remake of Beloved Film Washes Ashore

Audiences going to the musical “Beaches” are likely to know what to expect: the story of a decades-long, female friendship with plenty of schmaltz, some sass, and a mega-hit song, “Wind Beneath My Wings.” The musical, which began its development a dozen years ago — and most recently in a 2024 Calgary production, is based […]

Jessica Vosk Says She Feels 'So Terrible' When She Hears 'Sobs from the Audience' During Broadway's “Beaches ”

“Those last 20 minutes of the show, the audience is kind of a puddle, and I can feel that as the person sitting on stage,” Vosk tells PEOPLEKelli Barrett and Jessica Vosk in Braodway's 'Beaches'Credit: Trudie LeeNEED TO KNOWJessica Vosk exclusively tells PEOPLE that she feels “so terrible” when she hears the audience’s “sobs” from the stage during Broadway’s Beaches “Every show is a great moment of gratitude for me knowing that an audience is fe…