Posted: 9/27/15 at 1:28am
I'm hopped up on a lot right now due to a stomach bug, so I can't write The Great American Novel, but, it's OPENING NIGHT for the Deaf West transfer (and first B'way revival) of SPRING AWAKENING. Congratulations to all involved for getting it to the Brooks! Tickets on-sale through January 24.
Post 'em here, kids!
Posted: 9/27/15 at 6:58pm
amNY gives it 4 stars. Happy Opening Night!
http://www.amny.com/entertainment/spring-awakening-a-visually-stunning-revival-1.10896137
Posted: 9/27/15 at 7:56pm
"By cleverly pairing deaf actors who are signing with hearing actors who are singing, Deaf West has made the show the most accessible on Broadway, but also forged it into something theatrically exceptional."
Spring Awakening on Broadway: Review, 16 Photographs, 2 Videos
Posted: 9/27/15 at 8:25pm
I believe it was Tallulah Bankhead who was quoted as saying: "kisses on your opening."
Posted: 9/27/15 at 8:32pm
Standouts among the cast include Krysta Rodriguez as the sad but fierce runaway Ilse and the spirited Ali Stroker, who may be the first wheelchair-bound actress to appear on Broadway. Oscar winner Marlee Matlin makes a cameo as one of the adults, alongside Camryn Manheim ("The Practice"
and the crisp-voiced Patrick Page.
The standouts I would mention would be Krysta Rodriguez, Andy Mientus, Austin McKenzie, Daniel Durant, and Treshelle Edmond. The cast altogether is just amazing.
Updated On: 9/27/15 at 08:32 PM
Posted: 9/27/15 at 8:33pm
Not really a review, but NBC New York just published this for opening night.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/the-scene/Review-DeafWest-Spring-Awakening-329502551.html
Theatergoers coming to this raw story for the first time will find a musical with even more layers than the production that first seduced Broadway. The addition of sign language encourages a closer look at “Spring Awakening.”
Posted: 9/27/15 at 8:40pm
A rave from Richard Seff on DCMetroTheaterArts:
"***** The audience, refreshingly young for Broadway, did a lot of hootin’ and hollerin’, and you know what? So did I." Richard Seff, DCMetroTheaterArts.
http://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2015/09/27/spring-awakening-at-the-brooks-atkinson-theatre-in-nyc/
Updated On: 9/27/15 at 08:40 PM
Posted: 9/27/15 at 8:49pm
Hope you feel bette soon Limelight. Mine went from my head to my chest. Still coughing.
Posted: 9/27/15 at 10:37pm
And it's out from NYT. Raves. So happy for the team here as I am OBSESSED with this production. Congrats to all involved and may it touch so many other hearts as it touched mine.
One of the great musicals of the last decade was born anew on Sunday, when the thrillingly inventive Deaf West Theater production of “Spring Awakening” opened on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theater. Any qualms theater-lovers might have about this being a premature, whiplash-inducing revival — the original closed in 2009, after all — will vanish like frost in strong sunlight when the young cast of both hearing and deaf actors floods the stage...
...Deaf actors may not have the same tools that most actors do, but the gifted men and women in this splendid production achieve the same ideal ends, lighting up the lives of their characters from within, even when the light only reveals the darkness of their confusion, frustration and despair.
Posted: 9/27/15 at 10:37pm
FBay said: "NYT
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You beat me to it :)
Posted: 9/27/15 at 10:49pm
I wouldn't say raves but definitely very positive overall! Great reviews so far, I'm excited to see the show!
Posted: 9/28/15 at 12:10am
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/theater/2015/09/27/awakening-returns-lyrical-force/72667698/
NEW YORK -- What were the chances that the next Broadway production to arrive after Hamilton wouldn't prove relatively disappointing?
Pretty good, as it turns out, since that production is Deaf West Theatre's staging of Spring Awakening (***1/2 out of four stars). The musical adaptation of Frank Wedekind's 1891 play, set in Germany and focused on teenagers in a sexually and emotionally repressed culture, was a remarkable achievement in its own right back in 2006. Eight Tony Awards and nine years later, Duncan Sheik's haunting, richly melodic score and Steven Sater's witty, sobering book and lyrics have lost none of their power.
Posted: 9/28/15 at 9:56am
Calls it a "deaf poetry jam" and very moving. Scroll down for review.http://www.out.com/michael-musto/2015/9/28/new-tell-all-spills-dirt-about-faye-dunaway-and-mommie-dearest
Posted: 9/28/15 at 11:12am
Very happy for everyone involved. I'm thrilled to see their journey from L.A. took them to success! Well done!
Posted: 9/28/15 at 11:30am
