WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
dramadude
Featured Actor Joined: 6/9/06
#1WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 10:51pm
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! Carrie Fisher was hilarious! She got a standing ovation along with a night of uproarious laughter. The show was about two hours and fifteen minutes altogether with an intermission. There were audience interaction portions as well as an audience member who was called on stage. Her retelling of her life was a pleasant surprise!
#2re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 10:53pm
There were audience interaction portions as well as an audience member who was called on stage
Oh boy, I'm sitting second row center next weekend lol
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#2re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 10:54pm
Ok, I'll post in this thread haha.
I can't wait to see it tomorrow! 
#3re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 10:58pm
I know you enjoyed the show, dude, but let's keep it in your pants 
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#4re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 10:59pm
I'll admit, I went in as a skeptic, but wow. Tonight's performance of WISHFUL DRINKING was wonderful. Carrie Fisher was outstanding. The show itself was perfectly written. I laughed my ass off for the entire 2 hours.
Everyone, I mean everyone, should go see this. The Special Theatrical Event Tony should be brought back for this show. The audience LOVED the show tonight. I think it deserves across the board rave reviews.
Congratulations, Ms. Fisher, on an extremely successful first preview and here's to a successful run in Studio 54.
#5re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 10:59pmWhy is there like 20 of the same thread?
"It's about the Benjamins, not the Bernsteins."-CapnHook
#6re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 11:00pmDude is probably having computer issues. Sometimes if I get booted and try to post it could go through multiple times.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#7re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 11:04pm
This is only for a limited run, yes?
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#8re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 11:05pmFor someone not really familiar with her life, would the show still be entertaining? I'm going and I'm excited for it, but still a little skeptical.
#9re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 11:05pm
All I can say is GO! I laughed so hard I nearly choked.
Yes, it's a limited run through January 3, 2010.
"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
#10re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 11:06pmI don't think you have to know her whole autobiography. Just know that she's the daughter of Hollywood royalty and how that shaped her life.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#11re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 11:08pmThe reason there's so many threads definitely has to do with BroadwayWorld mobile. It's weird on cellphones/BlackBerrys and hard to navigate at times.
#12re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 11:08pm
I hope they announce an extra four weeks. I don't think you would need to know everything about her life.
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
RyToast1
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/07
#13re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 11:11pm
when i saw it a couple nights ago, i barely knew ANYTHING about her life, but i still laughed the whole time. i haven't even ever seen a star wars movie, but i still got everything she was saying.
by far the greatest show i've seen this season, and i really, really think the special theatrical event category needs to come back!
#14re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 11:11pm
If the audience participation is a quiz on her mom's movies then I'm good. Otherwise I'm screwed
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
RyToast1
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/07
dramadude
Featured Actor Joined: 6/9/06
#16re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 11:18pmI'm so sorry! My message kept coming up as "you've reached this page in error" on my iPhone for BWW! Next time I'll wait and use a computer. Sorry guys, I'm not crazy or a shill!
#17re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 11:20pm
But IS it a quiz on her mom's movies? lol
I'm so sorry! My message kept coming up as "you've reached this page in error" on my iPhone for BWW! Next time I'll wait and use a computer. Sorry guys, I'm not crazy or a shill!
That's what I kinda figured. But, you know, I had to tease you about it
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
Cape Twirl of Doom
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#18re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 11:27pmWonderful show! I could not stop laughing the entire night. Probably the most fun I've had at a show this year. I was in the rear mezz but before the show started the ushers said for us to move down, so I ended up with a front mezz center seat for $10! Carrie Fisher was hilarious and the audience participation was really amusing. It would be interesting to see it again later in the run to see how it would be different with a new audience.
"It's Phantom meets Hamlet... Phamlet!"
broadwaybaby086
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#19re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 11:33pmI saw it tonight as well and really enjoyed it. I knew next to nothing about Carrie Fisher going in- no, I haven't seen Star Wars- but found it very funny. I'd like to go back when I'm less fatigued to enjoy it more.
"I'll cut you, Tracee Beazer!!!!
...Just kidding. I'd never cut anyone." -Tina Maddigan, 9/30/06, WS stage door
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WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#21re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 11:38pmDid anyone stage door? I normally don't unless I know someone in the show. But I've been a huge fan of her's for so long. In fact when I was a freshman in high school (fifteen years ago) we had to write fan letters in English class. I chose Carrie Fisher. I'm, currently, uploading what I received in reply.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#22re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 11:39pm
OH MY GOD. Hilarious. I may have peed my pants. Such an entertaining night!
Stagedoor wasn't crowded at all. She only went to one side then someone asked her to come over to our side and she signed a few (I lucked out). She didn't seem to enthused by the whole thing.
AND MERYL WAS THERE.
#23re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 11:41pmHm...if she wasn't enthused I wonder if she'd pose for a pic.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#24re: WISHFUL DRINKING - First Preview
Posted: 9/22/09 at 11:42pmthis show was SO HILARIOUS. i can't stop thinking about it!!
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