A Letter to the Folks Behind Spring Awakening
#3
Posted: 6/11/07 at 10:33am
If they could have been as gracious as Mr. William Ivey Long, I would have been happy, but beardy and rubber face had to go on about them and not anyone else.
#4
Posted: 6/11/07 at 10:34am
Agree, agree, agree!
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#6
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
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
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.)
(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
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
yes, i laughed
#11
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.
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
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
Posted: 6/11/07 at 10:53am
Misery likes company, eh?
"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)
-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)
#14
Posted: 6/11/07 at 10:54am
William Ivey Long is a class act...I'm glad he won.
#15
Posted: 6/11/07 at 10:54am
Here, here! Their speeches seemed a tag arrogant, as if to say "Ha-ha we did it! Na na na na nah".
#16
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.
I just thought it was funny how Long won for costumes, and basically got up and said Hilferty SHOULD have won. Very funny moment.
It's just a message board. Let's not take it too seriously.
#17
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!
It's just a message board. Let's not take it too seriously.
#18
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
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
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)
-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
Posted: 6/11/07 at 11:07am
"Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah..."
How introspective.
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
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.
So gracious, humble. If everyone could be so nice.
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#23
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...
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
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.
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
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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