A Wicked Soul in Cherry Hill is an entertaining and illuminating show. It's respectful of the real life tragedy and uses the power of theatrical storytelling to skillfully explore important questions! The staging and the actors are great! Highly recommend!

I did not know of the case and after seeing it, wanted to learn more about Carol. Her story and her memory will stay with me. Awful things happen to good people in this world and the role of artists is to bring them to light, to examine them and learn from them. A woman's murder was not in vain if her death means more people honor her memory by taking a second look at how we blindly worship leaders and celebrities, unable to see their flaws. It also makes you wonder how many red flags we all miss with our hero worship and had we looked closer, we may have prevented a tragic murder of a kind mother. This is a morality tale told through music that is perfect for our times. Having seen Carol's story, she will now live on in my heart, keeping her memory alive. I was grateful to learn about her. The cast works extremely hard, playing multiple roles, but it's the Rabbis Wife/Carol and the Son, who becomes the hero by speaking the truth to honor his mother, that I will remember the most.

At the heart of any musical are the songs. Even a musical with a terrible story line, like Dear Evan Hansen, can he saved by really good songs. This musical has terrible songs. In fact, it is painful to listen to. All of the songs sound alike, and none are good. The story also is terrible: about a real life murder for hire plot that kills an innocent mother of 3 and successful businesswoman. The decision to make a musical about this story in the first place is controversial in its own right, and eliciting understandable backlash from family members of the victim. This review, however, is based solely on the content of the play. The actors are talented, which is why I give it 2 stars instead of one. But nothing can salvage this dumpster fire of a musical. I would have left early if my seat was on the aisle or there was an intermission—neither was the case. I read it is planned for a “world tour.” Please spare the world: end the run asap.

This is the worst musical I've seen in a really long time and I've seen some really lousy musicals. Actually, it's the worst show - period. Ignoring the fact that it's in really poor taste, it's relentless and repetitive with a boring, tuneless score and flatfooted, inane and predictable lyrics. Characters sang about themselves and described what they were doing and how they felt - like musicalized program notes. The staging was fussy, busy and often just plain goofy. At one point actors hid behind a sofa that was pretending to be a car and pushed it along. Those poor performers - game, talented and supremely wasted on this material. The actors played multiple characters, though it was often hard to tell who was who. Honestly, I wasn't engaged enough to try. Not worth the ticket price or the Covid risk. Have a nice glass of wine and stay home with Netflix instead.

This was the most distasteful pointless play I have ever seen . The genius that thought of making a musical (no less!) about a Rabbi gone wrong. Although this a is presented as an exploration of how people move on it does not really explore much. We knew nothing much about hid wife or their intimate reactions hip that would bring him to do something so heinous. I found this to be simplistic, superficial and very amateur. It felt like a high school play and a bad one at that! The singing was fair but nothing memorable to write home about . The fact that the family was not consulted and against this is deplorable! I walked away from this feeling an underlying antisemitic regardless of the fact that the playwriting was Jewish, must have been self hating (on some level) to feel he needed to bring attention to this case. It felt like airing dirty laundry in public fir no particular good outcome.

That anyone thought making a play about this tragedy would be a good idea is mind boggling. To know the family has explicitly requested this not be made is an insult to Carol Neulander’s memory. Everyone involved in this production should be ashamed of themselves.