Nominess Announced for 2007 Broadway.com Audience Awards: Spring Awakening — Page 5

But at the same point she basically has hated SA since the first day it opened.
So what? In this instance, she's totally justified and the Spring Awakening fans are the ones at fault. God help us if you at least admit you're disappointed/embarassed by your fellow fans' behavior without finding at scapegoat SA-hater to draw the attention towards.

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Updated On: 5/11/07 at 11:40 PM

I don't know, jg, I think the COMPANY fans are quite the rowdy bunch.

I always see COMPANY fans lined up on the streets in suits and formal wear chanting "Rise, rise, rise and be alive!"

haha true true bso, every show has their rowdy fans :)

I'm a huge fan of Spring Awakening, but even am a little "eh" on a lot of the SA noms, especially the number of original song nominations.

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orangeskittles, everything you say is spot on! I commend you on that! I tried to give Spring Awakening a chance, but some of the fans who think it's the greatest show that has ever come to Broadway, and things like attacking others if they just don't like the show...things like that just turned me away from the show completely...

I never thought Spring Awakening would turn into that kind of show. It makes me shudder and want to hide. When I saw it Off-Broadway, I thought it was such an artistic and intimate piece of theatre. I never thought it would fare well on Broadway or find an audience. I thought it would get swallowed up in a bigger house. And now to find a seemingly rabid audience... Please don't let this become the next Wicked! Spring Awakening doesn't have a happy ending like Wicked or Rent, so why all this kind of hype? Shouldn't they be rebelling against their parents instead? I'm a fan of the show, but I voted for some non-SA songs for Favorite New Broadway Song (that means, yes, I voted for some Grey Gardens). I'm a bit ashamed by it all.

But then again, it's Broadway.com. Should we have expected any better?

~Steven

I am one of the Spring Awakening enthusiasts so many of you are complaining so bitterly about - I did vote for it for everything - I honestly believe it is the best musical of the season, with the best score, acting, directing, lighting, and songs. I am one of the only people who doesn't really like Grey Gardens all that much; it's just a matter of taste. (I personally found the Grey Gardens score to be very bland; I am aware that mine is a minority opinion). While awards are fun, they shouldn't be taken so seriously. Lots of performers have won awards that I thought gave terrible performances; it's just an opinion, that's all.

This thread is more fun than the nominations being discussed!

I think it's kind of crazy that people who were once Spring Awakening fans are ready and willing to throw that admiration out the window based solely on the fact that some fans are obsessive. How does that change your enjoyment the show? The cast? The passion?

GO SPRING AWAKENING GO!!!! WOOO! i think they deserve every nom....except for like remy, lauren pritchard...who misses like 2941944 shows....and skylar...all for breakout performance?..odd! if any of the smaller parts in SA it should be Jonny B. Wright..even that would be odd...o well...but I do think they deserve all the other noms!

Why would we email Broadway.com? What would they do?

Laugh. And then hate us. :3 If they even dignified it with a reply, it'd be much along the lines of "we're sorry you feel that way, but as the audiences chose the nominees, there's nothing we could have done".

Man, I wish I hadn't voted before work this morning, I can't remember what I voted for.

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Actually, SethDaniels, you're right about the last part. I was talking about this at a rehearsal, and a girl overheard (this girl just began forming an interest in musical theatre) who said "Oooh well I remember watching that review with the people who would say what they liked, and one of the women said Aaron Lazar was really good in Les Miserables, so I voted for him."
Of course, I'm not saying Aaron Lazar shouldn't have gotten the nomination. I voted for him and I'm glad he's a finalist, but that is a perfect example of someone who voted just because they heard it through the grapevine so to speak. It should be no surprise Spring Awakening got so many nominations. Very few people even KNOW about LoveMusik (that's just what I've heard around where I go perform..not in general).

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