Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges Star in London World Premiere of Brokeback Mountain Beginning on the 10th of May

Set in Wyoming 1963, Brokeback Mountain follows the relationship between Ennis and Jack, who take jobs on the isolated Brokeback Mountain, and all their certainties of life change forever as they flounder in unexpected emotional waters of increasing depth. This intense tale of an unresistible and hidden love spans 20 years and its tragic consequences.

When is this musical coming to Broadway?

Alma’s number “Jack Twist? Jack Nasty!” really brought down the house. You could really feel her pain. The score is amazing.

Touching, heartbreaking story.

Who is playing Anne Hathaway?

When I first heard about this I assumed Faist was playing Ennis and Hedges was playing Jack. I find the fact that they’re playing the other roles intriguing.

Stop by the lobby concession during intermission for a refreshing Bud Light.

Do they sing or is it background music?

Do they use lube this time?

Checking fares into Heathrow as I type this...

Has Hedges come out yet?

No, saying your sexuality is a "fluid" experience doesn't count as coming out.

Which one is the wife?

Dear Lord, I want to nail Mike Faist's ass into Sunday. Sweet Jesus, please!

Is that Tilda Swinton and Matt Damon?

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COCK was much better, even though Taron Egerton fainted on stage and tickets cost $500 apiece.

Whose cock was much better?

Saw it tonight. Was better than I expected. Faist has a great body which we get to see a lot of. It's 90 minutes no interval. But it goes fast and the background music is excellent. But unfortunately you're going to compare it to the film inevitably and it pales in comparison.

It's already been an opera, ten years ago.

NY Times: “Meh.”

But this: “ And Faist, so memorably springy and vital as Riff in the Steven Spielberg remake of “West Side Story,” is really wonderful: engaging and likable from the start, only to reach a psychic abyss on the way to Jack’s signature comment to Ennis: “I wish I knew how to quit you.” Pausing to play a mean harmonica, Faist more than justifies a play that can otherwise feel a tad superfluous.

“You may or may not weep at this “Brokeback” — I did not — but just as Jack is to Ennis, I expect Faist’s performance will be impossible to forget.”

That atonal operatic adaptation of Brokeback Mountain is a rare thing in the performance arts…A work for which there is no audience whatsoever.

r16 a story about an ex-gay turning to pussy? Created by a straight man? No thanks.

John Grant plays the Randy Quaid role and stops the show with, "Stemmin' The Rose"- featuring hottie cowboys in assless chaps.

R18, when I think of the film Brokeback Mountain, besides, the incredible performances, I mainly think of the beautiful cinematography, the mountains, and all the sheep.

How did those things translate to stage?

Mad Eddi Reader was on TV yesterday talking about her role in it.

I thought the end of act one chorus number "Ass To Mouth" was rather tasteless.

I did like their duet Flannelette Size Queens , though.

Do they show the part where the man goes up inside the man?

Yes R27

Jack sings "I'm Really Into You" as he sticks his dick up Eniss' ass.

R21 it worked well for Angels In America. I think that’s the sort of work and script that allows for more experimental and ‘difficult’ music, though. BBM is a folk tale of shorts, thought-provoking but on a microcosmic, Earthbound scale.

Lucas Hedges is so fug that he's hard to look at. Shitty casting.

Billy Porter plays a new character: Miss Thang, a bordello madame who has to fire most of the female whores due to lack of interest.

They look a bit more age appropriate. In the novella the characters were just out of high school. Gyllenhaal and Ledger were 25-26 yo. Teenage horny sheep headers make more sense.

Casting Janice from The Muppet Shows' Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem in the Michelle Williams role was jarring at first, but she won me over when she snarled the "Jack Nasty!" line. I still wonder what Miss Piggy would've done with the role.

I wonder who'll play the balladeer for Broadway. Mare Winningham, maybe?

Isn’t BBM passé by now? Was anyone really asking for this adaptation?

[quote]Isn’t BBM passé by now? Was anyone really asking for this adaptation?

Passé? You mean because it hasn't been trending on Twitter?

Will it come to the USA?

Taller Jack, interesting

I enjoyed the, "When Did I Eat Corn" song.

^ Performed by the ghost of Carol Channing?

That Carol Channing/corn joke just never gets old.

BBM? That’s not how acronyms work.

Is one of the characters now a FTM?