The Prince of Egypt Reviews

Steven from London, England

ITS ALL ABOUT GOD

It is trully saddening.This play had all of its focus on Moses and Rameses.They only mentioned God’s name once in this play. Yet it was God who wanted to free his people, the one who gave all the miracles to Moses, despite moses weaknesses and unbelief it was God who chose him and helped him althroughout and yet at the End they made it seem like because of Rameses mercy that the Hebrews were set free. That Moses bent his knee to the man who wanted to kill his people and forgot about God’s purpose for him. The main message of the Bible was far removed from this play. Like most of the reviews you see here, who grew up loving the movie and who are saved by Gods grace, this play is disappointing. This story is not a fairy tale, this is the story of all of us. Like Moses, we are chosen to leave our comfort zones and to do our purpose which is To obey God and lead anyone within our circle to the promise land which for all of us is with God in Heaven only by his strength and not of any Man.

Maria from Basingstoke, England

DISAPPOINTING

In a "politically correct" world.. If you don't want to potray a biblical HISTORICAL story because it doesn't fit it in to todays comfortable status quo then don't attempt to make it into a play! As a Christian i was really offended by the ending and by the fact that they twisted the original story.. i can only imagine how disgusted a Jewish person would be since this is predominantly their history. Also.. the play is relatively white washed.. 90% white people representing black egyptians.. even moses wife was KNOWN for being black.. and we got the whitest actress to potray her (As talented as she may have been), I am sure that there is enough black actors in todays world to have had a couple more. My biggest issue was the fact that they rushed the Burning bush scene.. i could have cried with disappointment. Lastly, in this story God never let the people go.. Rameses did. Bunch of watered down crap. I had to watch the movie again to just go to sleep at night.

Elle from London, England

MEH

Was psyched to see the show- I love the film and have been teaching about the story of Moses at work the last few weeks. This production barely kept to the true story- with a v cliche, boring ending. I have always been moved by the song ‘when you believe’ I listen to it when my own faith is weak. But it was underwhelming, as was a lot of the music (bar deliver us, which was spectacular) scenically beautiful and some stunning moments but it all felt a bit basic, the costumes, the acting, moments of the dancing all felt a little under par. A predominantly white cast which failed to represent the people of the time and felt a bit uncomfortable watching white people dramatising slavery- maybe that’s the snowflake in me? But I was not impressed. Moses and Miriam, notably good but the script left characters flat, with no real depth. I wanted to have a good cry with this, as I do when I watch the film- but it was just a bit meh.

Dan Cohen from Leeds, England

OVERALL SADLY DISAPPOINTED

I first booked to see this show pre Covid, then booked again as soon as it reopened (only for it to be cancelled, third time ‘lucky’ and we saw it tonight. Positives; the dancing, vocals & cast overall are good. However, the new songs simply don’t stand as equals to the original animated film songs. More disappointing is the attempt to ‘re-write’ the Moses character to someone reluctant to challenge his brother pharaoh and feeling extreme guilt for the manner in which his people are freed. Scenes towards the end are a huge departure from the movie & the text - which makes it feel unreal and therefore unsatisfying. We know Moses & Pharaoh dont kiss & make up - so why try to make it so here. Finally - it’s really hard to take G-d out of this story, but the producers gave it their best shot, the result is that again it feels somehow lacking. In its current form this musical isn’t strong enough / uplifting enough to stand the test of time - without returning closer to the original.

Terry from London, England

NOT FOR ME

I couldn’t work out if this was a serious musical or a comedy? There was no real explanation what was going on, a child is given away to be named Moses, later his older sister who saw him be given away as a baby, is much younger than him and his Dad, the King, who agree to his wife, the Queen, to take him in, never ages. Young Moses and his brother go out and next two older actors, aged about 30-40 appear with Dad who is the same age as he was a few seconds ago. There were no real songs to remember apart from the one that sampled the Whitney Houston song, “I Have Nothing” and only for that part. I can not comment on the second act as I did not return from the interval.

Drew Lovgren from London, England

DISTORTION OF ORIGINAL PLOT. HORRIBLE!

This is not the same plot you watched in Dreamworks' masterpiece. The musical scores are present, but the gaps in between are filled with subpar songs. The actor who portrays Moses mopes around the stage and doesn't evoke any inspiration.

Louise Martin from London, England

VERY DISAPPOINTING

So much potential but such a disappointment: - The new music and dialogue is so bad - disjointed, cliched and cringe-worthy. - The acting and humour is awkward and robotic. - The casting is bad - some of the original songs are performed no where near up to the standard of those in the film version. - Changes to the plot from the film are unnecessary and create an incoherent story line. - The acrobats are so overused, presumably just to divert attention away from everything else going on. If you're considering buying tickets, save yourself the money, the effort and an extra few hours by just watching the film.

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