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#26

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 6/27/07 at 12:41pm

Wasn't Michael Cerveris involved at some point?

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#27

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 6/27/07 at 2:09pm

Yes he was The Masked Man in the Lincoln Center workshops.

#28

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/13/08 at 12:32pm

Where did you hear the recording?

#29

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/13/08 at 1:28pm

Wasn't Tom Deckman involved at one point? I remember didn't they mistakenly credit him in the current cast recording booklet?

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#30

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/13/08 at 2:23pm

Wow, what a bump!

Tom Deckman was the Hanschen at Lincoln Center.

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#31

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/13/08 at 2:36pm

Can someone explain aforementioned "Masked Man" character to me?

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#32

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/13/08 at 3:33pm

SPOILER ALERT ABOUT THE ENDING

All I know in the play there is a Masked Man in the graveyard scene at the end. I know Wikipedia isn't the most reliable source, but here is what I found:
"In the play, the ghost of Moritz tries to convince Melchior to kill himself, but is stopped by the Masked Man. In the musical, Melchior decides to kill himself when he sees the newly-erected grave of Wendla, but then the ghosts of Moritz and Wendla convince him not to."

END SPOILER

Obviously the character of the Masked Man was written out of the current musical, and they reworked the ending.

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Updated On: 4/13/08 at 03:33 PM

#33

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/13/08 at 3:41pm

The masked man did what millie said. They decided to take him out of the musical because they wanted the teenagers to be making these decisions without the prescence of any adults.

Oh, and I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop.

#34

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/13/08 at 3:46pm

just to clear things up, the Masked Man appears in the original play, rather randomly (ie: he's not in any scene until the very last and even then, he just appears with no explanation whatsoever)

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#35

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/13/08 at 3:54pm

Caroline, I was in a possibly illegal version of the play, and we had the Masked Man sitting on the stage, watching us for the whole play, finally speaking in the last scene. I don't know if that was common

Oh, and I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop.

#36

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/13/08 at 4:09pm

I'm not sure how it's usually staged (the one production I've seen of it was an unimaginative awful local production), I was just talking about how its written (or translated) at least.

That sounds like a pretty good staging idea, however.

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#37

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/13/08 at 6:43pm

Tom Deckman was the Hanschen at Lincoln Center.

Adam Shonkwiler was Hanschen in the LCT production.

The Masked Man, labeled "The Stranger" was quite prevalent throughout the LCT version - he was in nearly every number in Act One.

#38

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/13/08 at 6:47pm

Thea sang "The Dark I Know Well"? I wonder how that worked.

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#39

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/13/08 at 6:59pm

I believe Martha told people she was beaten, and then Thea sang this to show that she was beaten too, although no one knew. Now, Martha sings it and the "part she can't tell" is sexual abuse.

#40

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/13/08 at 7:23pm

would LOVE to hear those cut songs!

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#41

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/13/08 at 7:28pm

yeah, especially "Great Sex"

#42

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/13/08 at 7:33pm

the moral of this story is that the American Songbook series is alot cooler than anyone thought.

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#43

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/24/08 at 1:06am

bump
I just got my hands on a copy of the recording from the workshop at roundabout and alot of the cut songs are pretty cool. Its kinda weird to listen to I Believe though because Lea is so young in compairson to now when she actually did the show and because I remember my experiance with the show so well its just weird to picture the staging now witha younger lea and gavin creel. Anyone else have thoughts on the recording?

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#44

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/24/08 at 7:58am

"Caroline, I was in a possibly illegal version of the play, and we had the Masked Man sitting on the stage, watching us for the whole play, finally speaking in the last scene. I don't know if that was common"

At the 2001 workshop the Masked Man was the narrator. So he was there the whole time. I thought the recording was awful. The songs that Lea sings are cute because you can compare. But Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind is actually PAINFUL to listen to.

But there are a few scene/songs that are pretty cool. I like Moritz's funeral and the reprise of There Once Was a Pirate.

#45

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/24/08 at 10:26am

There are a bunch of SA songs from the workshop online. They have the cut songs, as well.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lGKaDVOsJoc

If you go to user: BwayDemosWorkshops there are also a bunch for Rent, Legally Blonde, Hairspray, and maybe others.

#46

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/24/08 at 10:45am

That's probably going to get this thread deleted but thanks for sharing it anyway.

#47

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/24/08 at 12:18pm

Who's the guy that Lea is singing with on Mama who bore me? I didn't know a guy sang with her in that song in the workshop.
Little Lea sounds so cute

Its kinda cool to hear these songs before they hit broadway. Who's the guy playing Mechi? he sounds weird Groff is better

TF sounds better on broadway I feel that the workshop verison was lacking energy.

Also who played Thea?

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Updated On: 4/24/08 at 12:18 PM

#48

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/24/08 at 12:47pm

Where is Dark I Know well & "All thats known"
Where they not added till Bway?

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#49

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/24/08 at 1:44pm

"Where is Dark I Know well & "All thats known"
Where they not added till Bway?"

They were added in later workshops. Spring Awakening did a bunch of workshops from 1999 until their off-Broadway run in 2006. The show changed a lot from the beginning (2001 was one of the first workshops) moving further and further away from the original story. There were a few changes from off-Broadway to Broadway, but not many.

#50

re: Roundabout 2001 Spring Awakening Workshop

Posted: 4/24/08 at 1:55pm

is that Michael McElroy singing?? love him.

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