Hunters of Kentucky" – Bandleader & Company Reception Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson received mostly positive to mixed reviews. The New York Daily News called it "bloody entertaining" and Benjamin Walker "magnetic and energetic," applauding the show for its lightweight and silly atmosphere. Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal appraised it thus: "Comically speaking, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is a one-joke show that gets three-quarters of its laughs from hearing 19th-century characters use 21st-century slang. Politically speaking, it's little more than an ultra-predictable mashup of Howard Zinn and Dances With Wolves (white people bad, red people good)… Michael Friedman's hard-edged, guitar-driven score is, however, another story. The music is tuneful, [and] the lyrics are honest-to-God smart." Ben Brantley of The New York Times noted: "There's not a show in town that more astutely reflects the state of this nation than Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson… both smarter and cruder than your average Broadway fare"; whereas fellow Times critic Charles Isherwood said the musical "taps most directly into the vein of snarky post-collegiate humor epitomized by The Daily Show and The Colbert Report… and panders cheerfully to the taste for ribald humor that is a primary ingredient in the more frat-boyish elements of late-night comedy." A San Francisco critic of that city's production, however, referred to the musical as "an unmistakable exercise in American self-loathing," while Power Line blog critic Scott Johnson of Minneapolis–St. Paul termed the play in retrospect "the worst thing I'd ever seen performed on a stage, bar none… extraordinarily unfunny." Awards and nominations Off-Broadway production Broadway production References External links Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Official Website Internet Broadway database listing Internet Off-Broadway Database listing Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at the Music Theatre International website Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at Know Theatre Off-Broadway musicals Original musicals Rock musicals 2009 musicals Biographical musicals Cultural depictions of James Monroe Cultural depictions of John Quincy Adams Cultural depictions of Andrew Jackson Musicals inspired by real-life events Plays by Michael Friedman Race-related controversies in theatre