Goodbye, Jonathan & Lea! — Page 3

It's a little disturbing and a little scary, but it's also pretty touching. I think that to a lot of fans it's almost the same as if the show were closing, and don't tell me that no one on this board has ever *not* cried at a show's closing before...

Anyway, I'm glad Jonathan and Lea both got a great send off and I'm glad that you guys had fun!

Agreed, Fromage.

I just issued a general statement because I didn't feel like singling out certain posters lest I be accused of "attacking" or something of that nature.

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I want to say that Adamgreer wrote a fantastic review of the show tonight. He captures most of my thoughts, but boy what an incredible night. This is what makes Broadway a special place! I know SA is a show people seem to love or hate, but what made tonight so special was that every person in the theater seemed to love the show to death, most clearly having seen it before. Its pretty rare you see a standing ovation BEFORE the performance, but Lea certainly got one.

I caught the 2pm matinee(rushed-5 hours bc i was so scared i wouldn't get tickets) on saturday (only saw this because my friend needed to fill an extra seat he had), and both were incredible shows, but the emotions were really out there tonight. almost all of the creative team was there: Tom Hulce was in a box, as well as Michael Mayer, and Steven Slater were also present. My friend said she saw Duncan Sheik go backstage also.

I have never felt so much energy before in a theater. This has always been one of my favorite shows, but it was so nice to see the audience so into it and me not being the lone person. The standing ovation after totally ****ed was longer than the curtain bows on Saturday. It was absolutely incredible.

Lea really knocked it out of the park tonight as others said. She is an extremely talented actress who will do well in whatever she does. It was really touching to see her crying at so many moments during the show. Jonathan groff also turned in some of his best work ever.

A special note to Blake Bashoff and Emma Hunton who were absolutely incredible in their roles. This was the first time seeing the show without the entire original cast, and I had wondered if it could work for me without them. And for these roles, it the answer was yes. Bashoff almost surpassed Gallager with the amount of energy and emotion he brought. Huntons voice is also gorgeous, and really helped me get over the fact that Lauren Pritchard.

Overall, this is still probably my favorite show on broadway(I know I'm a terrible person, but god I love it), and is a show that I really could see every night(as demonstrated this weekend).

An album of my Spring Awakening eperience:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2314607&l=d41b1&id=838777

I tend to doubt Gideon was at the show or the stagedoor. Unless he figured out a way to time travel. Because I saw him in Speech and Debate in LA. At 4 pm.


But I can imagine the emotions running through that theatre.

wow....so i live right outside of spring awakening, and i don't know WHAt was going on after the show, but literally there were screams between 9:50 and 11:15!!! (not constant screaming- there were 10 minute periods of silence in between, of course)...but ive never heard anything like it! My roommates and i were going to go check it out (because i do like SA and i know tonight was a big deal to the major fans), but we figured it was MOBBED and there was no way we'd be able to see what was going on anyway.

were any of you there?? what was going on that was instigating blood-curdling screams for an hour and a half?? were the cast members outside for that long? speeches being made or anything?

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While I didn't stage door after the evening show; the same thing happened at SD for the Matinee. The stage girls just screamed when the actors came out of the door. (Like they weren't expecting them?)

At matinee MANY of the cast did NOT stagedoor, they slipped out through the restaurant next to the theater.

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"were any of you there?? what was going on that was instigating blood-curdling screams for an hour and a half?? were the cast members outside for that long? speeches being made or anything?"

I was down the street by that gym talking with a friend, and heard the screaming. Every cast member who walked out the door got that reaction.

I was at the show last night as well. The other reviewers have said pretty much everything. Lea started crying after "Mama Who Bore Me (Reprise)" and I think I saw her tearing up at the beginning of "My Junk", but I'm not sure.

"Totally F****d" was absolutely incredible. People were cheering and screaming throughout the song, and the cast loved it. Especially Groff. The standing ovation for the song lasted for a good 2-3 minutes, and Lea was absolutely sobbing.

The standing ovation after the show was also incredible. Lea and Groff both gave short, but great, speeches at the end, thanking the fans, their families (who were in the audience), and the cast. Everyone was still clapping after they left the stage, and probably would have continued if the house lights didn't come up.

The stage door was complete madness. Thank you to the nice lady in front of me who passed my windowcard to the cast members to sign! I couldn't reach over the many people in front of me. I got to know so many strangers simply because we were all practically squished on top of each other. All of the cast members came out. Steven Sater, Michael Mayer and Tom Hulce also came out, along with Krysta Rodriguez, Robi Hager, Lauren Pritchard, and John Gallager Jr., who was in the street signing autographs. Jonathan and Lea came out last, somewhere around 11:15 and 11:30 (I lost track of time), and were both very gracious with signing and taking photos. And their arms were linked :)

Congrats to Jon and Lea. Looking forward to seeing what they do in the future.

I can understand someone being upset a cast member is leaving their favorite show but...uncontrollable bawling? Please.

I was reading reviews on another site and you'd think someone was dying with the way people were acting.

Broadway.com just put up pictures.

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Those are wonderful.

I wasn't ever a huge SA fan, but looking at those pictures while listening to Lea's curtain call speech on thesite sort of makes me wish I were.

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