The Mountaintop - first preview
The Mountaintop - first preview
#1The Mountaintop - first preview
Posted: 9/23/11 at 12:11amDid anyone go to the first preview tonight, or last night's invited dress? I walked past tonight when the show was letting out and there was a (predictably) HUGE crowd at the stage door.
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#2The Mountaintop - first preview
Posted: 9/23/11 at 1:28pmWow. Nothing here and nothing on All That Chat. Did nobody here see it last night, or did Sam Jackson intimidate you all into keeping quiet?
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#2The Mountaintop - first preview
Posted: 9/23/11 at 1:38pmWow, used to be that you could pop on here hours after the first preview of almost any show and find posts from people who attended. I was waiting to see something posted as I am not sure I want to see this. I do want to see it for the show itself but I still am not crazy about Jackson plaing King. Wanted to read opinions on how his performance is.
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#3The Mountaintop - first preview
Posted: 9/23/11 at 3:19pmSeriously...the sound of crickets surrounding this one is weird.
#4The Mountaintop - first preview
Posted: 9/23/11 at 4:42pmSeeing it in a few weeks. Where are our usual first-preview scouts?
#5The Mountaintop - first preview
Posted: 9/23/11 at 4:42pmIt's had exactly one public performance. Hard to fathom for some, but there's a possibility that nary a single BWW member was in attendance.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#6The Mountaintop - first preview
Posted: 9/23/11 at 4:44pm
I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT.
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#7The Mountaintop - first preview
Posted: 9/23/11 at 4:45pmToo bad Aaron Tveit wasn't cast as MLK. There'd certainly be interest then!
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#8The Mountaintop - first preview
Posted: 9/23/11 at 4:47pmI figured we'd at least have gotten a description of the curtain by now.
#9The Mountaintop - first preview
Posted: 9/23/11 at 4:53pm
"Too bad Aaron Tveit wasn't cast as MLK. There'd certainly be interest then!"
UGH, your hatred of women SICKENS me.
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#11The Mountaintop - first preview
Posted: 9/23/11 at 5:56pmHa, hi ljay! Yes as you know the two of us are normally at the first preview, but we couldn't go to this one till this Sunday evening. I'll be sure to post after and share some thoughts.
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#12The Mountaintop - first preview
Posted: 9/23/11 at 6:00pm
So, no one went to the first preview of THE MOUNTAINTOP?
This board is racist.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#13The Mountaintop - first preview
Posted: 9/23/11 at 6:08pmIf the show curtain isn't black, the show itself is racist.
#14The Mountaintop - first preview
Posted: 9/23/11 at 6:30pmThis is a Broadway World first... Usually there's a slew of reviews after a first preview.
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#15The Mountaintop - first preview
Posted: 9/23/11 at 6:33pm
I've found some tweets. From the same person:
"saw @Mountaintopplay tonight at the open dress. What an amazing, bold and gripping play! Congratulations!"
"You wanna see one of the best performances by an actress on Broadway, go see Angela Bassett in The Mountaintop."
#18The Mountaintop - first preview
Posted: 9/23/11 at 6:35pm
"Usually there's a slew of reviews after a first preview"
There's a Sondheim lyric right there!
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#19The Mountaintop - first preview
Posted: 9/24/11 at 12:01am
People making light of and dismissing other people's complaints about racism?!
That's racist!
#21The Mountaintop - first preview
Posted: 9/24/11 at 12:17amThis thread is nothing but theatrical slavery.
#22The Mountaintop - first preview
Posted: 9/24/11 at 8:43am
There's a brief review over on All That Chat. It features a major spoiler (although, by this point, I'd venture to say most of us know what that spoiler is).
It's not very complimentary.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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#23The Mountaintop - first preview
Posted: 9/24/11 at 9:41amCommencing on Broadway World! *chuga chuga*
#24The Mountaintop - first preview
Posted: 9/24/11 at 11:39amOh my god... MLK doesn't DIE, does he?
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