Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been telling you about Twilight: The Musical which was making a one-night-only, off-Broadway performance in New York City on Monday night.

A rep from NextMovie attended (specifically: their Male Twi-Hard) and has written up a review!

While weary at first, overall the writer was impressed with the show:

It turned out that a “concert reading” is like a normal script reading, but with music, singing and dancing. Eight actors played all of the roles and seemed very well cast. Didn’t seem to be a weak link among them. I especially liked Lauren Lopez, who did a great job of switching between the characters Alice, Jessica, Renesmee and Jane.

The show is marketed as a spoof of Stephenie Meyer’s story, but not like “Vampires Suck” or the dozens of YouTube parodies. It’s apparent the writer, Ashley Griffin, is well versed in the “Twilight” world. She pokes fun at the things Twi-hards already joke about, but doesn’t mock the audience for like the books and movies (except some at the end, which I’ll get to). As this was just a preview, the script seemed disjointed, and so I’ll finish this review with my disjointed impressions from the night.

At the end he says he recommends it to fans of musicals or the Twilight series in general.

A separate report over on MTV notes the presence of Harry Potter characters in the show:

But things take a canon-twisting turn about two-thirds of the way through the first act when Hermione, Ron and Harry show up. Yes, someone got “Harry Potter” in our “Twilight.” Instead of Victoria, James and Laurent, Hogwarts’ finest play the villains here. The meta levels reach 11 when the wizards mistakes Edward for Cedric Diggory. And so it is that Ron tracks Bella down in her old ballet studio and is done in by the Cullen coven, leaving Hermione to avenge the death of her beloved. The first act closes on Bella’s birthday — the surprisingly bloody scene from “New Moon.”

See photos from their rehearsal over on our earlier post. Would you be interested in seeing the show if it had a regular run?