SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews- Page 4
SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews
SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#75
Posted: 12/2/21 at 10:20am
everythingtaboo said: "So I wasn't the only one in the audience underwhelmed by what I was watching? I feel better now!"
Yeah I almost fell asleep during Act 2. Supremely boring, bloated, and at this point I'm so over all the armchair psychologist jargon that runs rampant on Twitter and TikTok even when someone is poking fun at it.
Separately, and not sure if this was just an acoustics issue from front mezz right where I sat, but I could decipher many of Annie McNamara's lines.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#76
Posted: 12/2/21 at 12:41pm
troynow said: "Interesting…. Thoughts of a Colored Man, both times I have seen the show is 95% Black. I found that odd and yet thrilling to be the minority. I wonder what the difference is."
Same. Perhaps it's the title of the show.
SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#77
Posted: 12/2/21 at 12:47pm
Jordan Catalano - if you're going to the official opening tonight, this is my reminder to keep your eye out for Jake Gyllenhaal: he is one of the producers of the show.
SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#78
Posted: 12/2/21 at 12:53pm
troynow said: "Interesting…. Thoughts of a Colored Man, both times I have seen the show is 95% Black. I found that odd and yet thrilling to be the minority. I wonder what the difference is."
As a minority member myself, "odd yet thrilling" is hardly the way minorities generally feel about their experience. It sounds super-white. I wonder if the guy who wrote Black Like Me felt it "odd yet thrilling" to have the experiences he had.
SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#79
Posted: 12/2/21 at 1:07pm
Jordan Levinson said: "Jordan Catalano - if you're going to the official opening tonight, this is my reminder to keep your eye out for Jake Gyllenhaal: he is one of the producers of the show."
I’m in London right now, otherwise I’d be there with Jake.
SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#80
Posted: 12/4/21 at 1:34am
joevitus said: "troynow said: "Interesting…. Thoughts of a Colored Man, both times I have seen the show is 95% Black. I found that odd and yet thrilling to be the minority. I wonder what the difference is."
As a minority member myself, "odd yet thrilling" is hardly the way minorities generally feel about their experience. It sounds super-white. I wonder if the guy who wrote Black Like Me felt it "odd yet thrilling" to have the experiences he had."
The way I read troynow's message, he was talking about his experience as a member of the audience were most of the playgoers were white. To him, it was different when most of the audience was black. By the way, what minority are you?
SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#81
Posted: 12/14/21 at 4:12pm
Has anyone won the lottery? I got an email saying I would receive e-tickets for tomorrows performance and still haven’t. Just wondering if I should be concerned or not? While we are at it, where did y’all sit if you won?
SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#82
Posted: 12/14/21 at 8:47pm
I got my ticket around 3pm the day of the performance. (It was in my spam, FWIW.) I was 5th row center orchestra.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#83
Posted: 12/16/21 at 3:44pm
Thanks for the reply!! I got my tickets around noon for the matinee. They were row F 1 and 3. There were MAYBE 150 people in the entire theatre. First 6 or 7 rows in the orchestra and the first two rows of the mezzanine.
Loved the show the second time and I’m happy it came back so I was able to see it again. The guy who played Dustin was great.
I definitely urge anyone to enter the lotto.. 3 of us won for yesterdays performance and they clearly can’t even give the tickets away.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/27/21
SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#84
Posted: 1/23/22 at 8:22pm
Did anyone go to closing today?
This second run seemed so muted and quiet, even on here people just kind of stopped talking about it
is it true they were playing to mostly empty houses, I saw people connected to the show offering comps all the time
SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#85
Posted: 1/23/22 at 8:28pm
I was at their second to last performance. The house was pretty much full. I personally didn’t love the show.
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SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#87
Posted: 1/25/22 at 6:16pm
Coming to LA. So it's a skip? Is the production cool?
SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#88
Posted: 1/27/22 at 1:47pm
RippedMan said: "Coming to LA. So it's a skip? Is the production cool?"
I see tickets at the Taper start at $35. To me, that's as much as one should spend on it.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#89
Posted: 1/27/22 at 1:55pm
What happened to Jeremy pulling the rights for the LA production?
SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#90
Posted: 1/27/22 at 1:56pm
Call_me_jorge said: "What happened to Jeremy pulling the rights for the LA production?"
Nothing but a cheap publicity stunt.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#91
Posted: 1/27/22 at 2:04pm
I see tickets at the Taper start at $35. To me, that's as much as one should spend on it.
Wow, that much?
SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#92
Posted: 1/27/22 at 2:14pm
LOL thank you for the laugh, Sutton.
I just double checked and I paid $39 before fees to see it in December. The usher moved me to a better seat and I still considered cutting my losses and walking out during the interminably boring second act.
SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#93
Posted: 1/27/22 at 2:28pm
kwoc91 said: "LOL thank you for the laugh, Sutton.
I just double checked and I paid $39 before fees to see it in December. The usher moved me to a better seat and I still considered cutting my losses and walking out during the interminably boring second act."
Second act? Did they add an intermission for the Broadway relaunch? There wasn't one in the original run.
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SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#94
Posted: 1/27/22 at 2:43pm
kwoc91 said: "LOL thank you for the laugh, Sutton.
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SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#95
Posted: 1/27/22 at 3:03pm
Is the production itself worth seeing? Interesting design/direction? Or is it all just blah?
SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#96
Posted: 1/27/22 at 3:25pm
JSquared2 said: "Second act? Did they add an intermission for the Broadway relaunch? There wasn't one in the original run."
The play itself is 3 acts, presented without an intermission. Act 2 is the group therapy.
RippedMan - the production itself is really nothing to write home about. The sets are interesting in the beginning but then lose their luster once the show settles in. It's like the rest of the show in that it thinks it's saying much more than it really is.
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SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#97
Posted: 1/27/22 at 4:16pm
Now I feel inclined to see it just so I can trash talk it, ha. Thanks!
SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews#98
Posted: 1/27/22 at 5:36pm
In my opinion it’s smoke and mirrors with literal mirrors. Touted as something much more important and impactful than I found it to be. It touches on race in a very superficial, textbook manner. Once you get over the interesting set and the “reveal” early on, I found it very dull. The opening and the last few moments of the show were better than the body of the show.
It absolutely played like a senior project and a first play. Very heavy handed and provocative for the obvious reasons of drawing attention. The numbers don’t lie. Very little interest in the show. There was no reason to revive it.
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