Soulman at Lennon Preview front row on 7/8/05

[soulman83]

Posted: 7/9/05 at 12:26am

I wont write too much seeing as i have to work in the morning. i first want to say that i understand this is a message board, but i would appreciate any kind of negative comments left off this Post! thank you in advance...

I sat front row tonight at lennon. this is the second night of previews and i wasnt quite sure what to expect. well...I THINK I TRULY ENJOYED MYSELF!!! you simply cant lose with a cast like this and i guarantee that it will run long enough to touch the people that it needs to touch! i was the black guy in the front row with the dreds and it was wondeful. i was completely pulled in by the music(most of which i had never heard before) and the cast. those voices just dont stop delivering and i hope they capture this work in a live version form. Thats the only way to capture all the magic this piece holds. THANK GOD FOR THE ENTIRE CAST INCLUDING THE AMAZING JULIA MURNEY who was sooooooo sweet to me at the stagedoor. i would like to expand on this but i am tired, so i will share some highlight FOR ME.

1. MArcy coming downstage while singing "Woman is the n* of The World" and reaching out and grabbing my hand and then singing to me for what seemed to be an eternity!!!! it was pure heaven. the entire cast saw how thrilled i was to be there and they kept bringing me in closer and closer.

2. the cast sung to me numerous times! Lots of Eye Contact with me!!! and lots of me going nuts like some teenage girl who just woke up by a hotel swimming pool to fine justin timberlake skinny dipping in honey! hmmm...

3>Chuck Cooper changed my life in caroline or change, and mmade my life tonight in lennon. he breaks your heart.

P.S. I LOVE THIS CAST!!! LOTS OF LOVE! you ALL blew me away!!!

-Allen

4.OMG!!!! Is that Chad Kimball singing that high or IS IT JUST ME?!?! i honestly thought it was a girl singing sometimes. this is a good thing. ungodly range! ah!

5. Julia Murney = Life! period.

6.DID I MENTION MARCY?!?!?!?!

7. Marcy came running out to me when she walked out the stage door. they all recognized me! this made my night. yes you guys (if the cast is reading) you'll find me front row soon!

This show is incredible if you go in embracing whatever you can take out of it! Truly beautiful show. I am officially a John Lennon fan now!!! I am officially a fan of this show!!!

Go Enjoy...Please!

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 7/9/05 at 12:45am

So glad you enjoyed it. It must have improved...I remember a lot of negativity when it was in SF.

[apdarcey]

Posted: 7/9/05 at 1:01am

they like you boy!

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 7/9/05 at 1:25am

Yaaaaaaay, Soulman!

[ClareBear]

Posted: 7/9/05 at 3:30am

Welcome to my life four months ago when I saw it for the first time in San Francisco. Marcy is my life! I love will. Chad does indeed sing high. Chuck is SO cool. I can go on and on about how great the cast it. Mandy is truly amazing as well but they cut her bit in "Real Love" (SUCH a great song that they cut altogether) so she has even less now . LOL Julia Murney was so nice and the whole cast recognized my friends and I who they officially dubbed "The First Official Lennonites" since I saw the show FOUR TIMES while it was here and loved every second of it. I sat in the pit seats (or as Chad likes to call them, the "Spit Seats") every time and I'm sure the cast thinks I'm psychotic. The cast would talk to us a bit while they were onstage before the show started Chuck and Michael were like "You guys again??" and another time Julia made comments about me sitting in my friend's lap ("hey that's not a real seat, ya know") and I got in trouble with an usher :) and when she was the annoyed woman in the Attica State scene (I don't know if that's still in there) she was right in front of my friends and I and one night she said "You are really wasting your money" as she walked away. It was priceless.

I'm so glad to hear you liked it so much and so sad that I don't live in New York so I could go see it a lot like it sounds you plan on doing. Tell the cast the San Francisco Lennonites say hello!

Love,
Clare

i can't get my photos with the cast to load...oh well they are cool (to me only probably, but hey whatever).

[TennesseeTwang]

Posted: 7/9/05 at 3:43am

Soulman, what kinda connnections do you have to have to get an individual concert like that?

I'm jealous.
Updated On: 7/9/05 at 03:43 AM

[soulman83]

Posted: 7/9/05 at 4:37pm

Tennessee, i dont what i did to deserve the amount of attention i got from the cast! besides all of that! i honestly loved this show and i plan on seeing it again!!! maybe 9 times like my friend conor who saw all shook up that many times!

[Pinguin]

Posted: 7/9/05 at 4:57pm

hehehe...glad you had fun. I get happy every time I remember that Julia Murney is on Broadway right now :0)