SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
2blocksfrombway
Understudy Joined: 2/8/07
#1SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 2:07pmsaw SA last night for the 3rd time. it seems to get better with every viewing. last night Krysta Rodriguez was on for "Ilse" and this girl was amazing. she definitely has star quality. couldn't take my eyes off of her. simply mesmerizing. also saw that she is a "Wendla" understudy. does anyone know if she has ever gone on for that role? i would love to see her do it.
bobert5353
Understudy Joined: 6/16/06
#2re: SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 2:11pmKrysta is amazing. She is easily my favorite cast member. She has not gone on for Wendla yet because Lea has not missed a show yet from what I know of. Phoebe is her first cover though, but maybe one day Krysta will be able to go on for her. I'm so glad that you got to see her as Isle.
#2re: SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 2:12pmIs Lauren Pritchard out often? It seems as if every other review I read mentions Krysta going on as Ilse.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
2blocksfrombway
Understudy Joined: 2/8/07
#3re: SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 2:49pmi have to agree with you. she gave my fave female performance last night in the show. a friend told me that she had gone on for "Thea" the night before. what a valuable asset she is to the show.
brainpolice23
Featured Actor Joined: 8/6/06
#4re: SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 3:20pmshe definitely is good, and very natural. i'm not too crazy about the character who plays thea regularly.
#5re: SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 3:22pmLauren is the dance captain so I know she periodically has to watch the show from the audience, hence she's out often to keep up with her dance captain duties.
educator06
Stand-by Joined: 11/21/06
#6re: SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 4:01pm
Jonathan B Wright,Krysta Rodriguez,Lauren Pritchard & Michael Mayer
Nice to have a face to place with the name. Krysta is adorable, what a catch for SA to get her.
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#7re: SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 4:07pmI saw Krysta as Ilse too! she's AMAZING :) actually, for a little while I almost loved her voice even more than Lauren's. It's sooo smooth and beautiful. Since then I've kinda come to absolutely ADORE Lauren's husky sound, but Krysta is still all kinds of wonderful :P she's super nice too! but, you know, I'm not surprised since she's part of the nicest cast ever *g*
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
#8re: SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 4:11pmSaw the show last night, as well. Bill Condon and marty Richards were in the audience. Thought the show was great. There was also a girl, I forget who, who played Thea last night. She was very good vocally though seemed a little lost sometimes. Krysta was great as Ilse, though. I wish the role gave her more to do.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
brainpolice23
Featured Actor Joined: 8/6/06
#9re: SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 4:47pmi've only seen remy zaken as thea. very stiff. maybe she knows somebody. the play rocks though.
educator06
Stand-by Joined: 11/21/06
#10re: SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 4:55pm
brainpolice23, I could not disagree more. I think Remy is great as Thea. Exactly what don't you like? She has a great voice, she is very confortable on stage and she is so darn cute! I mean her part is small and I think she handles it very well what more could you want?
Updated On: 2/8/07 at 04:55 PM
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#11re: SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 4:56pm
awww, I thought Remy was ADORABLE 
I mean, I dont really see how anyone could NOT like her- she's so cute and little! lol, no, I'm just kidding, you're completely entitled to not like her of course. I just thought she was great. It's a smaller role, but "melchi gabore. he's such a RADICAL!!" continues to be one of my fav lines of the whole show hehe
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
brainpolice23
Featured Actor Joined: 8/6/06
#12re: SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 5:01pmi think her voice is pretty decent. idk. she just doesn't seem to be as fluid with her movement as other people in the show...which may be what the director intended. it's a small role, so it doesn't in any way hinder the show.
#13re: SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 5:13pm
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#14re: SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 5:16pm
^
why is this cast SO FRIGGIN CUTE??
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
educator06
Stand-by Joined: 11/21/06
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#16re: SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 5:38pm
hahaha, true- very very GOOD genes, in their cases 
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#17re: SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 5:40pm
So this is what it must have been like in 1996...had there been a BWW.
Hmmm...
Updated On: 2/8/07 at 05:40 PM
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#18re: SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 5:55pm
So this is what it must have been like in 1996...had there been a BWW.
that's actually something that's very exiting to me- I always wished that I'd been able to have known the RENT cast from all the way back in the RENT days. It would have been so cool to have followed their careers since the very beginning instead of picking up years down the line. With the SA cast, I love being a part of the group that will get the chance to follow their whole careers
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
#19re: SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 6:50pm
Jennifer Damiano was on for Remy Zaken. I heard she did okay but flubbed a few lines.
Updated On: 2/8/07 at 06:50 PM
Amneris
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#21re: SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 9:14pmI checked my slips, and yes Krysta was on for Ilse and Jennifer was on for Thea. Krysta was, again, quite good even though she had a total of about 10 minutes of stage time. Jennifer was alright, she did flub some lines but that wasn't what turned me off about her performance. It was that she didn't have any character choices. She had a pleasant voice but she seemed to be squinting the entire time and took a lot of her cues off of the girl playing Anna.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#22re: SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 10:30pm
^pheobe!! (plays anna, hehe sorry, I lurve her).
yeah, I mean its totally understandable if Jenn's not totally comfortable yet- she's only 15! thats like, what, freshman in highscool? she's got pleenty of time to improve :)
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#24re: SPRING AWAKENING 2/7
Posted: 2/8/07 at 10:41pmahh k, same difference really though :)
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
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