First love is a bittersweet symphony! Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical Experience pulls you into the manipulative world of Manhattan’s most dangerous liaisons: Sebastian Valmont and Kathryn Merteuil. Seduced by revenge and fueled by passion, the two diabolically charming step-siblings place a bet on whether or not Sebastian can deflower their incoming headmaster’s daughter, Annette Hargrove. As the two set out to destroy the innocent girl—and anyone who gets in their way—they find themselves entangled in a web of secrets, temptation, and the cruelest game of all: love.
Featuring your favorite throwback hits by artists like Boyz II Men, Christina Aguilera, REM, *NSYNC, and, of course, Britney Spears, NYC’s most intoxicating new musical is a full-on ’90s party. Yes, it’s the movie you love, set to the songs you know, performed live, with drinks…and missing out might just ruin your reputation. Happy hunting!

If you love ‘90s pop — and if you don’t, really, just get out — then you will probably have a super fun time at Cruel Intentions The Musical, a remake of the ’90s film adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons, full of fun high school sex and drama, at the venue (le) Poisson Rouge. The musical by Jordan Ross, Lindsey Rosin and Roger Kumble is fundamentally a pop show contextualized by this story we all know and love. It’s a fun evening, cute, just a wee bit sexy, and super silly. The bones of the story are told (if you don’t know the legendary tale of Cruel Intentions you’ll at least get the gist of it), but the story is really there to provide a context for the performance of our favorite ‘90s pop songs. They’ve got the Goo Goo Dolls and The Verve and Counting Crows and R.E.M. and Ace of Base and TLC and Jewel and Backstreet Boys…it’s fun! The characters we know from the movie perform the songs in the context of the story, illuminating the inner life or emotions of the singer or situation. Pop music suggests general feelings no one really has — humans are too troubled and nuanced to feel such broad things — but when directly pointed to, these ideas-of-feelings become so easy to apply t …Read more