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 Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:39 pm
Has anyone heard of Spring Awakening? It's a new musical which opened on Broadway in December about adolescent sex in 1891, when the original play that it was adapted from was written. I think it's this decade's Rent.
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:17 am
I don't know how I feel about it. My friend talks about how AMAZING it is constantly, but all the footage I've seen of it just doesn't interest me. Not my type of show it seems. I'll see how I feel after I seem them preform on the Tonys.
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WickedElphie Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:17 pm
It sounds interesting, but I don't know if I'll go to see it when I'm in NY, unless I get a good deal. I have one song from it that was the free download on iTunes last week, and I enjoy it, but I don't know if it is something that I want to see on stage.
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:37 pm
I hope they win the Tony for best Musical and Score and Book, at least. I understand why you'd want to wait to see it on the show. I just hope they pick a decent scene or scenes to show. A lot of stuff I've seen on the Tonys are just junk. Bad scenes or whatever.
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:46 am
Spring Awakening has received the best reviews of any play last year. Here's some more info about it.
Spring Awakening opened Dec. 10, 2006 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater
Music by Duncan Sheik
Based on the play Spring's Awakening by Frank Wedekind
Directed by Michael Mayer
Produced by Ira Pittelman, Tom Hulce, Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel and the Atlantic Theatre Company (and many more)
Cast
Wendla - Lea Michele
The Adult Women - Christine Eastabrook
Martha - Lilli Cooper
Ilse - Lauren Pritchard
Anna - Phoebe Strole
Thea - Remy Zaken
The Adult Men - Stephen Spinella
Otto - Brian Charles Johnson
Hanschen - Jonathan B. Wright
Ernst - Gideon Glick
Georg - Skylar Astin
Moritz - John Gallagher Jr.
Melchior - Jonathan Groff
Ensemble - Gerard Canonico, Jennifer Damiano, Robert Hager, Krysta Rodriguez
Originally produced by the Atlantic Theatre Company by special arrangement with Tom Hulce and Ira Pittelman
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:11 am
My mom won't let me get the cast album...
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:41 pm
I've heard it's really good! My friend has the CD so I'm gonna see about getting a copy from her... we'll see.
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Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 5:50 pm
Ooooh. Ok. Now I can really say it. The cast recording is AMAZING, and I was skeptical about how it would work out in a stage musical, but I saw it at the Eugene last night and it is simply brilliant. SOOOOOO much better live. It really sounds nothing like the cast recording, as lovely as that is. If you get a chance DEFINATELY see it. I wouldn't compare it to RENT beyond being an emotional story, controversial, and rock, but it's definately new and already collecting a strong fan-base, etc. There were at least 20 of us who waited outside the stage door for about an hour in the freezing old whether. The cast is incredibly nice. Really, really sweet to the fans. Most of them spent time talking to every one of us, signing things, John Gallagher Jr. (love him) even showed us his freshly blowdried hair. Good times.
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:57 am
My friends went to see it last night. I would have gone, but then I would have had to sit at Port Authority alone til 1 in the morning waiting for a bus so yeah.
They called me afterwards and said as uncomfortable as some of the scenes made them feel (aparently someones boobs make a Broadway debut in their own right) it was a really amazing show.
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:55 pm
WickedElphie My friends went to see it last night. I would have gone, but then I would have had to sit at Port Authority alone til 1 in the morning waiting for a bus so yeah. They called me afterwards and said as uncomfortable as some of the scenes made them feel (aparently someones boobs make a Broadway debut in their own right) it was a really amazing show.
I may have already said this, but yes, it is an incredible show, and it's not the show MINUS the racy parts, it's the entirety of the show that makes it so powerful. Every piece of the show was done in great taste and it totally added to the message, the story, and the intensity of the show. It could have worked without it.
That being said, I would say My Junk definately made the majourity of the audience more uncomfortable than the sex scene...
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:07 am
I have not seen it yet so which one is my junk? Cus if it's the song between the homosexuals... Sean (who has read the play version) said it wasn't nearly as racy as he thought that would be.
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:02 pm
WickedElphie I have not seen it yet so which one is my junk? Cus if it's the song between the homosexuals... Sean (who has read the play version) said it wasn't nearly as racy as he thought that would be.
N-n-no. That's Touch Me (Reprise), when Hanschen and Ernst sing to each other. That's a rather light, simply adorable and hilarious scene. The one I'm refering is also quite hilarious and light, but not quite to adorable. To put it quite bluntly, Hanschen jerks off centre stage in front of the audience less than half an hour into the show =)
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:44 am
Ahhh, yes... Sean spoke of that as well.
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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:41 pm
Yes, it's a very different musical. I liked it a lot, as I said. What I like about it is that it juxtaposes children having sex and learning about sex with a girl who is molested by her father. Very strong, I think. so you have Melchior, who seems to be aware of sexual feelings. Moritz, who can't quite understand it. hanschen and that other guy who have a gay relationship. And a girl who is sexually molested by her father. quite different ways of spring awakening.
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:00 pm
I finally got my hot little hands on a copy of the album... been enjoying it. My friend did a monologue from the original Spring's Awakening in theatre class as well.
And someone jerks off in My Junk? I liked that song too xD
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