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#1

A Letter to the Folks Behind Spring Awakening

Posted: 6/11/07 at 10:28am

To Shiek, Mayer, Sater and the whole gang-
Congratulations. I would just like to let you know how absolutely pretentious you all sounded last night. You are not and have not changed the landscape of Broadway. There has been rock music on the stage since the 60s, sex has been a topic in musicals and plays for many, many years and as clever as the staging and young cast is, we have seen clever staging and talented young people onstage before. Get off your high horse.
Regards,
jv92
#4

re: A Letter to the Folks Behind Spring Awakening

Posted: 6/11/07 at 10:34am

Agree, agree, agree!
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#6

re: A Letter to the Folks Behind Spring Awakening

Posted: 6/11/07 at 10:40am

Agreed, this show is soooooooooo overrated! Plus, of the voices of the performers, I don't think that much either!
"You alone can make my song take flight, it's over now, the Music of the Night!!!!!"
#7

re: A Letter to the Folks Behind Spring Awakening

Posted: 6/11/07 at 10:40am

I also agree! Being a product of the 60's "Hair" had a lot more thought provoking songs than "Spring Awakening". It covered drugs, sex and war!
#8

re: A Letter to the Folks Behind Spring Awakening

Posted: 6/11/07 at 10:45am

Serious word.


(Also- did anyone else laugh when all 137 producers of Spring Awakening got onstage for the Best Musical presentation? It just looked so cheese-tastic for some reason.)
#9

re: A Letter to the Folks Behind Spring Awakening

Posted: 6/11/07 at 10:49am

"Also- did anyone else laugh when all 137 producers of Spring Awakening got onstage for the Best Musical presentation? It just looked so cheese-tastic for some reason"

yes, i laughed
#11

re: A Letter to the Folks Behind Spring Awakening

Posted: 6/11/07 at 10:51am

They just showed what a bunch of lame old men they were trying to pretend that they were young and cool and actually believing it because they got Tonys to "prove" it.

Lame.
"I've got to get me out of here This place is full of dirty old men And the navigators and their mappy maps And moldy heads and pissing on sugar cubes While you stare at your books."
#12

re: A Letter to the Folks Behind Spring Awakening

Posted: 6/11/07 at 10:52am

Also, it was really classy for William Ivey Long to acknowledge Spring Awakening as well for being a good piece of theatre this year. He was so gracious. The entire SA came off as somewhat conceited.
#13

re: A Letter to the Folks Behind Spring Awakening

Posted: 6/11/07 at 10:53am

Misery likes company, eh?
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#16

re: A Letter to the Folks Behind Spring Awakening

Posted: 6/11/07 at 10:54am

good one, Foster.

I just thought it was funny how Long won for costumes, and basically got up and said Hilferty SHOULD have won. Very funny moment.
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#17

re: A Letter to the Folks Behind Spring Awakening

Posted: 6/11/07 at 10:56am

and they deserve to say so, andante. Did you see all those producers? It took 8 years and THAT many people believing in this show to get it to B'way!
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#18

re: A Letter to the Folks Behind Spring Awakening

Posted: 6/11/07 at 11:01am

I read somewhere that they did the songs all as introspective because they always hated how in musicals people would just randomly burst into song. Umm, don't write a musical, then.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#19

re: A Letter to the Folks Behind Spring Awakening

Posted: 6/11/07 at 11:05am

I completely agree. I wanted to hit something every time they went off about the show being "revolutionary" and "groundbreaking." HAIR was groundbreaking and changed the shape of Broadway. RENT was a revolution in the sense that it brought the issues of the eighties and early nineties into perspective. You, dear people of Spring Awakening, are neither, but rather an arrogant group of whiney, greedy people who want a peice of the sucess of the rock musical, without really contributing anything new.
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#20

re: A Letter to the Folks Behind Spring Awakening

Posted: 6/11/07 at 11:05am

I guess they decided to set their own rules for how to develop their musical, and it seems to have paid off on every count.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#21

re: A Letter to the Folks Behind Spring Awakening

Posted: 6/11/07 at 11:07am

"Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah..."

How introspective.
"I've got to get me out of here This place is full of dirty old men And the navigators and their mappy maps And moldy heads and pissing on sugar cubes While you stare at your books."
#22

re: A Letter to the Folks Behind Spring Awakening

Posted: 6/11/07 at 11:09am

jv-I was there. I had to listen to that. Also-I met Mr. Long and he's a real class act.
So gracious, humble. If everyone could be so nice.
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#23

re: A Letter to the Folks Behind Spring Awakening

Posted: 6/11/07 at 11:09am

In my eyes, it isn't really a musical. It's a concert.

People are saying that this style is the future of Broadway. If so, then I say, may God save it...
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!

Updated On: 6/11/07 at 11:09 AM

#24

re: A Letter to the Folks Behind Spring Awakening

Posted: 6/11/07 at 11:11am

I don't understand how the topic is revolutionary.

Is some young girl supposed to learn that have sex with a boy leads to pregnancy, and probably death from an abortion gone wrong? What is so groundbreaking about the subject matter?

You wrote some lovely pseudo-pop rock, quasi theatre songs, cut and rearranged an old German play, and got a really well-respected choreographer to do some fancy hand moves.

Get over yourselves.

Personally, I think I have too much bloom.
#25

re: A Letter to the Folks Behind Spring Awakening

Posted: 6/11/07 at 11:13am

Hair and Rent had an impact on Musical Theatre , Spring Awakening won a few awards

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