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Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.

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gfaustswa
#1Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 6/11/14 at 10:38pm

What a treat! Great acting and all around great show. Don't miss this one!! And all four actors were really nice at the stage door. Get a window card and have them sign it.....you'll be proud of yourself!

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dramamama611
#2Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 6/11/14 at 11:12pm

Proud? Of what?


If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

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broadwaydevil
#2Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 6/11/14 at 11:13pm

Yourself! Of course, makes sense. For all the hard work you put into it.


Scratch and claw for every day you're worth! Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming You'll live forever here on earth.

FindingNamo
#3Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 6/11/14 at 11:17pm

It's gay pride month so you should feel that after you see that play!


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gfaustswa
#4Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 6/11/14 at 11:17pm

Proud that you saw the show and have an autographed window card or program!

FindingNamo
#5Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 6/11/14 at 11:33pm

You should beam!


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jnb9872
#6Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 6/11/14 at 11:44pm

Ooooh, I should bring an I-beam to the stage door and have them sign that...


Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

FindingNamo
#7Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 6/11/14 at 11:45pm

Show merch only!


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FishermanBob
#8Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 6/12/14 at 3:15am

I'm proud of myself for not giving a s**t whether I get a Playbill autographed. Updated On: 6/12/14 at 03:15 AM

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dramamama611
#9Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 6/12/14 at 7:26am

I don't think you understand the meaning of PROUD


proud
adjective, proud·er, proud·est.
1. feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).

2. having, proceeding from, or showing a high opinion of one's own dignity, importance, or superiority.

3. having or showing self-respect or self-esteem.

4. highly gratifying to the feelings or self-esteem: It was a proud day for him when his son entered college.

5. highly honorable or creditable: a proud achievement.

Buying a ticket and sitting through a play is hardly an achievement. Nor is standing in line to get people to sign a piece of paper.

I'm not saying the play is worth seeing, I'm sure it may be....but it certainly won't instill any sort of pride in me by watching. Joy, maybe. Contentment, maybe.


If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

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ClydeBarrow
#10Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 6/12/14 at 11:22am

You saw a GAY play during GAY PRIDE month...so you'll be proud. Duh.


"Pardon my prior Mcfee slip. I know how to spell her name. I just don't know how to type it." -Talulah

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gfaustswa
#11Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 6/12/14 at 12:16pm

Good grief! All I am trying to say is that it is a really good play and all four of the cast members are really nice people off stage.

Updated On: 6/12/14 at 12:16 PM

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Kristie-K2
#12Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 6/12/14 at 3:26pm

it was a wonderful play. Tyne Daly was very good...

FindingNamo
#13Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 6/12/14 at 3:33pm

So proud of Tyne. My prayers go out.


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Kristie-K2
#14Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 6/12/14 at 3:36pm

prayers indeed...LOL

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Susanswerphone
#15Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 6/13/14 at 12:00am

Tyne Daly was very good. I agree. And a difficult task it was, given that the play itself is unbelievably tedious. Bobby Steggert also did a fine job. Fred Weller, who I think is a wonderful actor, was miscast and seemed very, very uncomfortable throughout. Listening to and watching that child of theirs, whoever he is, was painful.

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Bettyboy72
#16Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 6/13/14 at 12:42am

That horrible child was in the bathtub for an hour. He would've either drowned or been approved. A terribly written and annoying character.


"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

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newintown
#17Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 6/19/14 at 8:57am

I'm only proud that I didn't get up and leave after 10 minutes, which would have disturbed the 4 people I would have had to climb over.

This is an absolutely terrible play - reductive, cheaply sentimental, artificial, awkwardly manipulated. Not a word of dialogue sounds like human speech, not a moment is motivated by any sense of how people behave. Characters alternate between saying baldly rude and hurtful things to one another (with no reaction) and suddenly becoming terribly warm and fuzzy, with no apparent reason for the abrupt shifts (other than the playwright's whims).

The two adult male actors give the most mannered and affected performances I've seen in a long time; I don't know what is wrong with Frederick Weller's lungs and adenoids, but he talks like an 80-year-old man with emphysema, constantly fluttering his hands around (I suppose either because he doesn't know what to do with them, or he thinks that's what the gays do). Bobby Steggart, as usual, turns on the waterworks early, and rarely turns them off.

Tyne Daly turns in her usual adept sitcom performance - every line tossed off in her patented loud, flat, and nasal shout. But, compared to the two over-the-top men she acts with, her performance comes off as a model of understatement.

The audience was into it, however, ready to laugh at anything that was telegraphed as funny, and even several things that weren't. Applause was generously polite until Daly's call, when the obligatory stand happened.

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Patash
#18Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 6/19/14 at 11:33am

"NOT A WORD of dialogue sounds like human speech. . .", "NOT A MOMENT is motivated by any sense of how people behave."

Your hyperbole has me laughing my head off. Human speech doesn't include words like "hello" or "no"? People don't sometimes pause when confronted with a statement that shocks them? Or smile when they are amused? Seriously?

It may not be my favorite script of the year, but come on now. Do you think you're going just a little bit overboard?

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newintown
#19Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 6/19/14 at 11:41am

Eh. It's called "rhetoric." Used by many. I imagine you got the point, even if you want to quibble with the way its expressed.

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IdinaBellFoster
#20Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 7/28/14 at 1:07pm

Bump for a question:

Can't seem to find this answer anywhere, do they state in the play how old the Bobby Steggert character is?


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haterobics
#21Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 7/28/14 at 1:27pm

The casting notice was for "Male, ages 35-49, All Ethnicities" but that doesn't nail down his specific age in the play..


Will Ogden casting notice

MegInManhattan
#22Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 7/28/14 at 2:05pm

I spent a good bit of the play trying to figure this out too. Somehow based on everything else they say about timelines and age differences, I came up with around 32. They mention at one point that there is a significant age difference (15 years maybe?) between the couple.

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Yero my Hero
#23Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 7/28/14 at 2:17pm

I believe Bud is supposed to be 6 or 7 (at least it seemed that way based on the Broadway casting), so Cal and Will have at least been together 7 or 8 years. I would hope they'd have been together at least 2 years before deciding to have a child, so let's say they've been together 10 years. (Maybe Cal says that at some point? I don't remember.)

So if Will is 32 now, that means he was 22 when he met Cal and only 24 when he decided to have a child, which is possible, but awfully young. I'd put them closer to 35 and 45.

I don't remember them specifically stating the age difference, just that there was a significant difference, and Cal says Will is of a younger generation, which to me means at least 10 years.


Nothing matters but knowing nothing matters. ~ Wicked
Everything in life is only for now. ~ Avenue Q
There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. ~ Rent

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Kad
#24Just got back from seeing Mothers And Sons.
Posted: 7/28/14 at 2:28pm

I recall a specific age being mentioned. 34 seems to be sticking out to me- but there was a definitive age mentioned.


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