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#25Afterglow
Posted: 10/12/17 at 2:40pm
It's certainly not a great show, but I didn't think it dreadful either. My primary complaint was that the actor playing the interloper lacked the magnetism necessary to believe he could endanger the relationship of the other two. The story would've been more plausible to me if he had played the one left behind.
"Michael Riedel...The Perez Hilton of the New York Theatre scene"
- Craig Hepworth, What's On Stage
#27Afterglow
Posted: 10/12/17 at 3:22pm
No doubt it is; this sort of play was very successful in this same small way back in the 80s and 90s -plays like Jerker, Soul Survivor, The Boys in Cellblock C, Cute Boys In Their Underpants (and its sequels), Party, 10 Naked Men, Making Porn, Sleeping With Straight Men, etc., etc., etc. And of course, Naked Boys Singing. Male full frontal easily sells (small) houses for a while.
This play is slightly different in that it's really banal, utterly devoid of humor, and painfully suburban/Victorian in its morality. The earlier plays were (mostly) at least examples of bohemian ghetto theatre ("ghetto" used in the sense of "by and for a specific non-majority population"
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#28Afterglow
Posted: 10/12/17 at 3:28pm
I mean, they are literally advertising in gay bars and on Scruff. So yes.
It was also written by a young dilettante writer, the sort who, I'm sure, has gotten some money behind him.
Newintown: a dramaturge and professor friend of mine found the show morally very conservative, which is... ironic.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Updated On: 10/12/17 at 03:28 PM
#29Afterglow
Posted: 10/12/17 at 3:39pm
Kad, the good comes with the bad. The closer to the mainstream being gay gets (and what is more mainstream than the return of Will & Grace?), the more alluring the conservative life becomes to the former outsider. Hiding in the closet is less prevalent than it once was, but then there are all those terribly bourgeois gays and lesbians with generic beautiful homes and generic beautiful children and generic not so beautiful values. And a side result is generic awful plays like Dada Woof Papa Hot and Afterglow.
Updated On: 10/12/17 at 03:39 PM#31Afterglow
Posted: 4/3/18 at 11:02am
There was a moment 3/4 into the play one of the characters said " I am in a lot of pain." I turned to the two theatre goers next to me who were obviously over it and looking at their watch and I said "me too!" Best menage a trois moment and laugh of the evening.
I'm going to start with the good. And there is not much good but let's start there. The use of space in the Davenport was quite interesting. They put the audience on both sides to make you feel like you were part of the action, an interesting jigsaw puzzle set complete with an onstage shower and some nice lighting effects to get the sense of Afterglow.
Unfortunately, after just five minutes with these characters, you realized you didn't want to be part of the action. How do i get out of here?
The plot. Three guys are in bed naked as the show opens. Two of them are married. One is the younger massage therapist from downstairs who they are having sex with. 5 minutes later one of the married guys proclaims his love for the younger massage therapist. The massage therapist doesn't want to come between the married guys because that would be wrong. Never mind he's already been in bed with both of them. But of course he does. How do you think this ends??? How does any love triangle end? And were are only 5 minutes into the play.
I think gays deserve a better play. I think love triangles deserve a better play. If there was an intermission I would be out of there. No wonder they cut the intermission. Having put the audience on both sides, the only way to escape the theatre would be to walk on stage. And believe me, I thought about it.
The three characters were superficial, uninteresting and I could care less about any of them. In fact they were three gay guys I would not like as friends let alone date or fall in love with. I realized how unimportant bodies can be if your character is soulless. And all of these characters lacked deveopment and soul. And dare I say the bodies were not worth the price of admission? If you can't care about anyone in a play, why have to sit there? Nude or not.
If you must see naked people, there are better ways such as porn, private parties or watching the WWE.
And you will not care a lick about any of these superficial underdeveloped dull characters.The writing was pedestrian
The acting was so bad I thought it was a non union production. I thought with non union salaries no wonder it could run so long!
But after the curtain call, Boy was I surprised when they raised money for Equity Fights Aids at the end of the show cause they were indeed Union performers.
I would avoid this one at all costs.
#32Afterglow
Posted: 4/3/18 at 11:02am
There was a moment 3/4 into the play one of the characters said " I am in a lot of pain." I turned to the two theatre goers next to me who were obviously over it and looking at their watch and I said "me too!" Best menage a trois moment and laugh of the evening.
I'm going to start with the good. And there is not much good but let's start there. The use of space in the Davenport was quite interesting. They put the audience on both sides to make you feel like you were part of the action, an interesting jigsaw puzzle set complete with an onstage shower and some nice lighting effects to get the sense of Afterglow.
Unfortunately, after just five minutes with these characters, you realized you didn't want to be part of the action. How do i get out of here?
The plot. Three guys are in bed naked as the show opens. Two of them are married. One is the younger massage therapist from downstairs who they are having sex with. 5 minutes later one of the married guys proclaims his love for the younger massage therapist. The massage therapist doesn't want to come between the married guys because that would be wrong. Never mind he's already been in bed with both of them. But of course he does. How do you think this ends??? How does any love triangle end? And were are only 5 minutes into the play.
I think gays deserve a better play. I think love triangles deserve a better play. If there was an intermission I would be out of there. No wonder they cut the intermission. Having put the audience on both sides, the only way to escape the theatre would be to walk on stage. And believe me, I thought about it.
The three characters were superficial, uninteresting and I could care less about any of them. In fact they were three gay guys I would not like as friends let alone date or fall in love with. I realized how unimportant bodies can be if your character is soulless. And all of these characters lacked deveopment and soul. And dare I say the bodies were not worth the price of admission? If you can't care about anyone in a play, why have to sit there? Nude or not.
If you must see naked people, there are better ways such as porn, private parties or watching the WWE.
And you will not care a lick about any of these superficial underdeveloped dull characters.The writing was pedestrian
The acting was so bad I thought it was a non union production. I thought with non union salaries no wonder it could run so long!
But after the curtain call, Boy was I surprised when they raised money for Equity Fights Aids at the end of the show cause they were indeed Union performers.
I would avoid this one at all costs.
#33Afterglow
Posted: 4/4/18 at 11:14am
When I saw it last summer I had no idea they were all going to be naked. Seriously! 5 minutes before the show my friends and I heard heavy breathing (borderline moaning) in the background which was a bit odd but then obviously everything made sense after the show started. From friends who went recently, they told me they didn't hear any heavy breathing a few mins before the show started.
perfectliar
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#34Afterglow
Posted: 4/4/18 at 11:29am
Ado Annie D'Ysquith said: "According to a fellow industry friend, it just "keeps extending." Erm, no pun intended, but if it really is as bad as you all say, the dude-bits may very well be what's filling the seats..."
After seeing this thread return this morning, and after the show constantly appearing steeply discounted on Today Tix, I finally looked it up to see what it was all about. This is literally a pull quote on the official website... they know what they're doing:
– THEATRE IS EASY
#38Afterglow
Posted: 4/4/18 at 12:54pm
Thanks for the laugh, haterobics. Puns always make everything better.
I will say this much...ironically, Goldenboy, the fact that you learned "how unimportant bodies can be if your character is soulless" from this kind of redeems the experience in my opinion. In our increasingly shallow society, that is a beautiful truth to realize for oneself...
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#40Afterglow
Posted: 4/4/18 at 4:06pm
haterobics said: "goldenboy said: "The massage therapist doesn't want to come between the married guys"
Can't he just do itsomewhere else?"
BWAHAHA. Thank you, haterobics, for one of the better laughs of the day.
Gosh, this show was terrible. Just so much cheap moralizing and poorly acted drama. If there weren't three naked men, it would have lasted a couple weeks at best.
robskynyc
Broadway Star Joined: 4/17/18
#42Afterglow
Posted: 6/26/18 at 4:50pm
we saw it a few months ago.
garbage. pure garbage. we would have walked out if we weren't trapped on the back side of the theatre. the dialogue and acting are super cliched and laughable like everyone says.
if u wanna see some d!ck on stage, go see naked boys singing. at least there is bigger talent on that stage.
