GHETTO KLOWN (First Preview) Thoughts

BUMP.

Anybody go?

They have a lotto?

I also was there last night and was blown away.
The theater was almost completley sold-out and the energy was amazing. Not only in the audience, but onstage. You could tell John was giving everything he had and enjoying his time up there. The play is probably his best yet. The first act is hilarious and the second act is much much much darker, more a drama with a lot of funny moments. It is mostly about his career and his struggle as an artist. He shows such range and is able to flawlessly transition from a dramatic low to a comeidic high with the turn of his head. His perofrmance in this play are on a whole other level. He not only plays his familliar characters (moms, pops, gramps) but also Al Pacino, Steven Segal, Kurt Russell, and Sean Penn. Probably one of the best performances I have ever seen onstage. I would put it up there with Geoffery Rush in Exit the King and Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens. He is really something else.

He did come out the stagedoor (they are using the one on 45th street) and there were a ton of people there. He was accompanied by a security gaurd and a teenager (?) who were telling people that you could not take photos with him, only of him. But he ignored them and took a ton of photos with ppl. Also, he signs everything. Really nice guy.

The commercial/ad campaign looks sooo cheap!

I saw this show in one of the out-of-town tryouts and, at least in that incarnation, my feelings were more similar to those of WhizzerMarvin than those of the more enthusiastic posters. If you are a huge fan of Leguizamo, you will probably love this show. But, aside from Moulin Rouge, this is the first thing I had ever seen him in. He spends a large portion of the show telling stories about the shows and movies he's been in, and if you're unfamiliar with the material he's talking about, it all starts to blur together. There's a lot of "And then I was in THIS movie...And then I was in THAT movie..." and it doesn't seem to be building to anything specific. If I knew the movies, I would probably feel differently, but I didn't.

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I don't think there was one movie in it that was "and then I was in this one..."
I also did not know the movies except for Moulin Rogue but judging my the applause some of the titles got, I was in the minority.

The show ran 2 hours 10 minutes with a 15 minute intermission.

He did talk about TO WONG FOO, didn't he?

So what's the point of this?

I actually liked House of Buggin'. :)

"The Pest"? Not so much.

saw the show tonight.

thoughts on Ghetto Klown, while john is a talented performer did we really need another solo show from him? his 5th in 20 years btw, especially when in this new 1 he does not broach anything after 2001 which is when his last show sexaholic was produced (unless i missed a more recent timeline reference) also at 2.5 hours its very long, as colin quinn showed us earlier this season u can do a killer solo show in 75 minutes. and also it was the must annoying crowd ever people were yelling things at him the whole time and being ****ing annoying, had to ask to move seats because the women next to me (who told me she was from the bronx) would not shut up or stop texting on her phone, overall if you got nothing better to do they got 29 dollar balcony seats. if you spend 300 to sit front row i question your sanity/ money management

im sorry what part of that post shows i had a good time lol

I really enjoyed his first couple of times out and am so hoping that he will once again draw on what he knows best to carry this off. I loved everything until Sexaholic which I thought totally blew and it was my opinion that he plain lost his edge but maybe not. I will see it on April 3 and given the mixed opinions here, I will see.