“Helen Park’s musical numbers are perversely addictive.”
— Ben Brantley, The New York Times
“KPOP” has the most electric original score on Broadway, warping together ambient soundscapes, heart-wrenching ballads and those signature reverberating beats.”
— Brittani Samuel, Broadway News
“An infectious original score. Park’s musical numbers wouldn’t look out of place at Madison Square Garden.”
— Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
“If you’re not bopping along to Helen Park’s splashy, buoyant pop tunes, well … maybe you don’t like puppies or rainbows either.”
— Sara Holdren, New York Magazine
“Helen Park’s songs make the case that bubble gum is an international language...insanely catchy songs with enough unbridled energy to generate an audience frenzy. It offers provocative ideas set to an irresistible beat; just try to resist it.”
— David Barbour, Lighting and Sound America
“Ms. Park’s music is exuberant, with sharp hooks and maddeningly catchy choruses.”
— Kathryn Yu, No Proscenium
“Tiny bubbles of pleasure keep floating up and bursting all around us. Pop! Pop! Pop! We’re sold.”
— Adam Feldman, Timeout NY
“Between the music, the dance, the exhilaration of Park’s enthusiasm, and the love that filled the room, it was easily the happiest place in NYC outside of the maternity ward in any given hospital ... Helen Park In Concert was one of life’s fortuitous choices for every person in that club. The true star of the night was Helen Park herself, who has a very clear path to success ahead of her. Only a person with such obvious talents, such enviable style, such relaxed honesty, could so easily carry off a full-out K-Pop concert with a complete band, singers, and dancers, without once appearing to be anything but the calmest, coolest, chicest, young prodigy in town.”
— Stephen Mosher, Broadway World
“I believe the strength in Helen Park’s music is not just about her ability to bridge cultures within the song but in the way she creates something that sounds purely Korean but is geared toward a Broadway audience. One might ask, can a show with more lyrics in Korean than English appeal to a mass audience, but it seems it already has.”
— Chris Struck, Cabaret Scenes
“Udoubtedly the most ambitious off-Broadway musical of the year, with pulse-quickening tunes... Ms. Park re-creates that magic with her irrepressible pop score, which will have you dancing through much of the show.”