Spring Awakening & Homo Love - Why The Big Joke? SPOILERS

I totally understand where you are coming from. But for some reason it didn't bother me. I can't even explaini why not....it just didn't for some reason.

I haven't seen the show, so this isn't an educated comment... but does everything have to be serious all the time. At some point in tv, movies, theatre or whatever form, everyone is made fun of, used as comic relief, so why be sensitive. Enjoy it for the art not as some agenda

Your description of the scene just makes me more anxious to see it.

Same with the beating scene, which is unintentionally funny, as well.

I had the same reaction to the scene between the boys...it seemed cartoonish. There were titters throughout the audience that wouldnt have been there had this been taken seriously.

I assume they wanted a light moment, because it was clearly intentional to be funny, unlike the flogging scene...but this shouldnt have been it.

It was the only flaw, for me, in an astonishingly good musical.

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Actually the thing that bothered me most about that scene was how they were like, about to kiss and then pulled out the microphones, which totally ruined it for me.

And I didn't think the whipping scene was funny at all, intentional or not. And no one even let out nervous laughter when I saw it either.

gym - I think people just like to shout that things are offensive.

I mean, look at the offense people took to the rape in The Fantasticks. So...

Yep, we might have been sitting in the same place...it was definitely a dramatic scene.

Jonathan B Wright knows exactly what he is doing in that scene. He is very convincing and wonderful to watch. His diction and the delivery of his lines are very good indeed.

Updated On: 2/2/07 at 07:30 PM

That was the only scene that bothered me a little, I enjoyed it, but the way it was scripted made it seemed that it was included in the musical for comic relief since Moritz had committed suicide and everything else was going downhill. (Personally, “Totally F*CKed” took the bite out of Moritz’s death for me.) Arguably the scene with the gay couple just shows another type of love, and Sater and Duncan could have taken plenty of liberties with it because in Wedekind’s play, the source material the scene is short, and I believe that may be the only scene for those two characters.

The only point when I laughed during that scene was when the response to the comment: “In 30 years we’ll look back at this beautiful day and laugh” (something to that effect). The delivery of the response, something to the effect of “So what do we do until then?” was just great.

The pulling out of microphones just amused me, and was just a huge indicator of “we’re shifting to an interior monologue in song, damn it!”

The audience was pretty much silent during the beating scene when I saw it.

"the sh*t end of the stick....no pun intended....."

That's why...

oh those crazy germans!