![]() ![]() “Watch my hands,” Lincoln repeats, mantralike. Eventually, Line relents, working up his old street rap on a couple of milk crates in their tenement apartment. (He works at an arcade, where customers line up daily with fake guns to fake-assassinate him in his fake theater box.) Mos plays Lincoln’s younger brother, Booth, who spends much of the play pressuring Linc to teach him how to throw cards. He has since reformed - these days slapping on a false beard, white pancake makeup and a stovepipe hat for his role as an Abe Lincoln impersonator. Wright portrays a onetime three-card-monte hustler named Lincoln. Wolfe, who cast him opposite Jeffrey Wright in the two-man show. Instead, Mos Def received a call from the play’s director, George C. When I heard it was going to Broadway, the only thing I wanted to be in was the opening-night crowd with some pretty shit on.” ![]() ![]() But I had no idea I would ever be in the show. “To me, it was like hearing ‘A Love Supreme’ for the first time, or Mingus, or Hendrix. “I was a huge fan of the show,” says the rapper and actor, with a sheepish grin. WHEN TOPDOG/UNDER DOG, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play that’s being hailed as one of the most exciting shows on Broadway, made its debut last summer at a downtown theater, Mos Def was in the audience. ![]()
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