Spring Awakening is coming back to Broadway. But when and where? — Page 9

Has the concept for Getting the Band Back together changed? I actually talked to Davenport several years ago, and he said that his wish for the show was a more intimate and interactive setting. Like you were actually going to see the garage band. Of course a lot can happen and change with a show over the years, but the one he described about 5 years ago would be a very strange fit for the Brooks, and indeed in most Broadway theatres.

I think its so weird how they aren't advertising the fact that its DEAF Awakening and not just a revival of the original Broadway production. Thats a bit misleading

Firstly, I'm talking about when you go to buy tickets (i.e. TicketMaster) the picture is the new Spring Awakening on Broadway design. Like here:

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No where on the new design does it say that this is the DEAF WEST version, which IT IS, and not the 2006 Broadway version. So people might be misleaded. And where did I say its a revisal? What in the heavens name are YOU talking about?? I'm confused what you don't understand about my comment..

When you go buy tickets for the upcoming Fiddler revival. I think its safe to assume you are buying it for the 2015 production and not the original. Same goes for this production.

There is no misleading here. I'M confused what you don't understand about this.

Am I speaking in tongues?! I'm saying that its misleading that it doesn't indicate that this a deaf-friendly version of Spring Awakening and not just a revival of the non-deaf version of spring awakening. When people go to buy tix to see The Fiddler revival they think they are gonna see a new production of Fiddler, not a production that includes sign language/deaf actors,etc. When people go to buy tickets to the Spring Awakening revival they might not know they are seeing a production that includes deaf actors & sign language which is misleading. You guys must not understand english text.

"But not a lot of people might realize this is the deaf-friendly version so.."

So they'll be in for a pleasant surprise? If anyone walks out, fine, whatever. But I don't think Big River was explicit in its art except that it fingerspelled 'BIG RIVER' in the clouds, which wasn't even used on all the marketing materials.

Really, if people don't do their research, it's on them -- the audience.

Yeah, I really don't like the implication that ASL needs a disclaimer or warning.

Zell-everyone responding in this thread understands English. What we don't understand is how it is misleading that their is sign language included in the production. Are you under the impression that the sign language is in lieu of speaking? It is not.

I think you can rest assured that the show will be well marketed to hearing impaired audiences.

This is not a show (like the revivals of some shows) that features a new book or new/different songs. It is not a show that changes the setting. As far as Ican tell, it is not even a show that changes the orchestrations. I think we are unable to fathom why some "disclosure" is needed in the early artwork, which seems to be what you are suggesting. Did you think the Doyle Sondheim revivals were misleading too? Neither had actors playing musical instruments in the principal artwork.

Sorry but I just think you are out in left field on this.

Maybe they assumed that you had a little bit of knowledge since you actually went to buy tickets and didn't feel they had to tell you that. They don't tell you at the box office that Phantom is about a guy in the sewers or that Mormon has naughty words or that there's dancing in American in Paris either, do they?

Then perhaps, Zell, you'd like to take a nice try at explaining how what's being done here differs in any way from the manner in which the front of house artwork (during the first week of sales, no less) for every other revival is handled, Why is it more important to disclose what's going to happen onstage in this show than in any other revival? Why do you think there needs to be a warning about sign language as if it were full frontal nudity? That's the way what you're saying comes off.

And you think that somehow relates to the sign posted in the lobby of the theatre on day one? I think you have reached the point where "whatever" is the only reasoned response.

I thought you were talking about going to the box office but now I see you were talking about "going to" Ticketmaster. Now it's clear that what you wrote is just wrong. Here is what it says on the Ticketmaster ticketing page:

"Deaf West’s production of SPRING AWAKENING floored the critics when it premiered in California, prompting the Los Angeles Times to write, “It's hard to enumerate all the ways in which Deaf West's SPRING AWAKENING is so very, very good.” Now this unapologetically brilliant new production is coming to New York."