SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews- Page 4

[kwoc91]

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.

[Sutton Ross]

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. 

[EDSOSLO858]

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.

[joevitus]

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.

[Jordan Catalano]

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. 

[A Director]

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?

 

[n2nbaby]

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?

[everythingtaboo]

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.

[n2nbaby]

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. 

[BoringBoredBoard40]

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

[willep]

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.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 1/23/22 at 8:30pm

Dud of a show. 

[RippedMan]

Posted: 1/25/22 at 6:16pm

Coming to LA. So it's a skip? Is the production cool? 

[everythingtaboo]

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. 

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 1/27/22 at 1:55pm

What happened to Jeremy pulling the rights for the LA production?

[JSquared2]

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.

 

[Sutton Ross]

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? 

[kwoc91]

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.

[JSquared2]

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.

 

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 1/27/22 at 2:43pm

kwoc91 said: "LOL thank you for the laugh, Sutton.



 

 

[RippedMan]

Posted: 1/27/22 at 3:03pm

Is the production itself worth seeing? Interesting design/direction? Or is it all just blah?

[kwoc91]

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.

 

[RippedMan]

Posted: 1/27/22 at 4:16pm

Now I feel inclined to see it just so I can trash talk it, ha. Thanks! 

[Bettyboy72]

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.