A Letter to the Folks Behind Spring Awakening — Page 5

I just rewatched the broadcast and didn't think the Spring Awakening team came off as arrogant at all. Sater was just overly emotional, which I know I would be if I just won a Tony.

I laughed out loud that we were even having this argument on here.

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Seeing all the producers trekking up on stage, all I could think of was this:

First we see the kids from SA, all dressed like (weird but) innocent waifs and then all the old (mostly white and male) producers standing behind them, smiling.

If this was a commercial, it would be about kids who go onto chat lines

"And these are my friends, they're all my age"

and we see all the old men who claim to be 15-year-old-girls on the chat page.

Anyone else get that creepy feeling?

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If they were trying to take Rent's place as the overrated "revolutionary" musical they did a wonderful job. We can congratulate them on that.

spork do you know how stupid that makes you sound?

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So many people charged the stage that I was waiting for the animals from The Living Nativity to come out. They do live at Radio City Music Hall, you know. Don't they?

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Updated On: 6/11/07 at 08:10 PM

There is so much on this thread that I would love to refute, but I'm holding my composure... I think that Spring Awakening is good. I don't love it. I don't think it deserved "some" of the awards it won. I agree the speeches were a bit ridiculous. These threads are appearing because people are in shock because there are equal or even "better" nominees (In their opinion). I think people need to stop assuming the motives of people, and just discuss the topic. You disagree, we understand that, but don't get so defensive. Obviously we can't contain all the topics that Spring Awakening has brought about in one thread.

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